Microsoft .NET Programming

This book provides both the theory and practical skills necessary to analyze and improve the performance of .NET code. By focusing on the 20% of code defects that account for 80% of performance loss, it guides the reader through using a profiler and explains how to identify and correct performance bottlenecks.

Visual Studio .NET is one of the most versatile and extensible programming tools released by Microsoft. The number of features and shortcuts available in VS.NET is truly immense, and it grows tremendously with each release. Developers who are unaware of these timesaving features surely miss out on opportunities to increase their programming productivity and effectiveness.

Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform � straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type � from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications. You�ll also get links to additional technical resources that can help with your application development.

This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You'll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you�ll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing, provide CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data form entry support, implement efficient data paging, reuse UI using master pages and partials, secure the application using authentication and authorization, use AJAX to deliver dynamic updates and interactive map support, and implement automated unit testing.

This series of online tutorials gives you an overview of ASP.NET Web Pages (version 2) and Razor syntax, a lightweight framework for creating dynamic websites. It also introduces WebMatrix, a tool for creating pages and sites.

Get a head start on creating "Metro"-style apps for the approaching release of Windows 8. If you�re new to .NET programming, this introductory guide will quickly get you up to speed on the tools you need to build user interfaces with Microsoft�s new design language, code-named Metro. Learn how to use WinRT and the preview version of the upcoming Visual Studio release, and get tips and tricks for having your app published in the Windows Store.

COM and .NET Interoperability provides a complete overview of the process of building .NET applications that interact (interoperate) with existing COM code. Before digging into that critical topic, author Andrew Troelsen offers a concise overview of the COM architecture and provides examples using various COM frameworks (C++, ATL, and VB 6.0) as well as the core .NET managed languages (C# and VB .NET).

This guide provides end-to-end guidance on building monolithic web applications using ASP.NET Core and Azure.

This textbook gives an overview of Web and Web programming in general and with focus on ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core are web development frameworks created by Microsoft.

Build fully-featured APIs with ASP.NET Core! This all-practical guide is written like a real development project, taking you hands-on with modern APIs utilizing REST and GraphQL standards.

Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework, using powerful architecture patterns, and modern web technologies such as HTML 5 and jQuery. With this hands-on guide, you’ll gain a complete understanding of this framework with examples that demonstrate how various ASP.NET MVC 4 features work. You’ll also get valuable code examples that you can directly apply to your own projects.

This book is for developers who are currently using Microsoft ASP.NET and MVC to create websites, and who are interested in creating websites that play nicely with mobile devices or want to update their existing site. If that's you, I'm assuming that you already have a working knowledge of MVC, so this book will not give you introductory lessons of what MVC is or tell you how to use it. It's designed to be a quick read for developers and to help them understand the concepts they need to know to improve their websites when it comes to dealing with mobile devices.

The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security is required reading for .NET programmers who want to develop secure Windows applications. Readers gain a deep understanding of Windows security and the know-how to program secure systems that run on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.

This book is a complete technical guide to upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6 applications to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, it covers all aspects of upgrading from APIs to ZOrders. This book includes chapters on fixing upgrade issues with forms, language, data access and COM+ Services. It also shows how to add value to your upgraded applications with XML Web Services, ADO.NET and .NET remoting. Its has 'big picture' architectural advise, and includes a reference of function and object model changes from Visual Basic 6. The text is is decorated with hundreds of before-and-after code samples, and the companion CD is packed with useful upgrade examples. This book is an essential reference for the millions of Visual Basic 6 programmers who are considering moving up to Visual Basic .NET.