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Welcome to the Free Books section. In this section, you may browse free books and book chapters available.
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Chapter 2: Creating Versatile Types
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SAMS Publishing
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Mar 24, 2010
This chapter is all about making your own objects as useful and versatile as possible. In many cases, this means implementing the standard interfaces that .NET provides or simply overriding base class methods.
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Chapter 6: Process Management
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Addison Wesley
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Feb 10, 2010
This chapter explains the basics of process management and also introduces the basic synchronization operations and wait functions that will be important throughout the rest of the book.
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Chapter 8: C# 4.0 Features
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Addison Wesley
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Feb 02, 2010
This chapter looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources.
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Chapter 1: SQL Query Performance Tuning
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Apress
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Jan 26, 2010
Query performance tuning is an important part of today's database applications. Often you can achieve large savings in both time and money with proper query performance tuning
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Chapter 6: Memory Corruption Part II - Heaps
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Addison Wesley
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Nov 16, 2009
This chapter discusses a myriad of stability issues that can surface in an application when the heap is used in a nonconventional fashion. Although the stack and the heap are managed very differently in Windows, the process by which we analyze stack- and heap-related problems is the same.
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Chapter 1 - Introduction to "M"
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Addison Wesley
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Nov 03, 2009
The "Oslo" Modeling Language (M) is a modern, declarative language for working with data. M lets users write down how they want to structure and query their data using a convenient textual syntax that is convenient to both author and read.
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Chapter 2: How to code a JavaScript application
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Murach
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Nov 02, 2009
This chapter presents a subset of JavaScript and DOM scripting that will soon have you writing significant applications. If you don't have any programming experience, this chapter also makes a great aptitude test. If you read it and can do the exercises at the end of the chapter, you're ready for the rest of this book.
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Chapter 4 - Normalizing a Data Model
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Addison Wesley
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Sep 01, 2009
Data normalization is probably one of the most talked-about aspects of database modeling. Before building your data model, you must answer a few questions about normalization. These questions include whether or not to use the formal normalization forms, which of these forms to use, and when to denormalize.
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Chapter 13 - Programmable Web
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Addison Wesley
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Aug 25, 2009
The new Web programming capabilities in WCF simplify the building of services for use on the Web. This chapter covers these services, including SOAP, POX, the UriTemplate class, the webHttpBinding binding, configuration-free hosting, and content syndication models.
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Chapter 11: An introduction to LINQ
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Murach
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Aug 13, 2009
In this chapter, you’ll learn the basic concepts and skills for using a new feature of C# 2008 called LINQ. To illustrate these concepts and skills, I’ll use an
implementation of LINQ called LINQ to Objects. You use LINQ to Objects to work with in-memory data structures such as generic lists and arrays.
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Chapter 8 : Reading Objects with LINQ to SQL
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Addison Wesley
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Jul 28, 2009
It uses the mapping of classes to tables to translate LINQ queries to SQL commands and then materializes objects from the rows returned. The objects can be related to each other in a graph of objects that is managed by LINQ to SQL on your behalf.
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Writing Windows C# Programs
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Addison Wesley
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Jul 21, 2009
The C# language has its roots in C++, Visual Basic, and Java. Both C# and VB.Net use the same libraries and compile to the same underlying code. Both are managed languages with garbage collection of unused variable space, and
both can be used interchangeably. Both also use classes with method names that are very similar to those in Java, so if you are familiar with Java, you will have no trouble with C#.
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Chapter 7: Web Matrix and XML
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Apress
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Jan 13, 2009
In this chapter Use the XML Support ,XML Notepad ,XMLEditGrid Control,XML File Page,XSL Transform Page,XML Schema Page and XML Data Display Application
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Chapter 5: Advanced C# Class Construction Techniques
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Apress
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Jan 13, 2009
This chapter rounds out your introduction to the core aspects of the C# language by examining a number of advanced (but extremely useful) syntactic constructs. To begin, you learn how to construct and use an indexer method.
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Chapter 27: Nullable Types
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Apress
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Jan 08, 2009
Null values are a useful programming construct beyond simply recording the initial state of a class variable.
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Chapter 1: C# Preview
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Apress
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Jan 08, 2009
In this chapter, I've touched upon the high-level characteristics of programs written in C#.
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Chapter 1: Introducing WPF
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Apress
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Jan 07, 2009
In this chapter you'll peer into the architecture of WPF. You'll get your first look at how itworks, and you'll see what it promises for the next generation of Windows applications.
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Chapter 18: Working with POOM
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Apress
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Jan 05, 2009
The Pocket Outlook Object Model is the gateway to Outlook-specific data. POOM is not only a fun word to say, but also a powerful resource for developers. POOM allows you to integrate seamlessly your mobile applications into the standard core applications found on every Pocket PC.
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