Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; Bk&CD-Rom edition (August 16, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 0321228103

Open Source .NET Development is the definitive guide on .NET development in an open-source environment Inside, readers will find in-depth information on using NAnt, NDoc, NUnit, Draco.NET, log4net, and Aspell.Net with both Visual Studio .NET and the Mono Project. Brian Nantz not only shares the best open-source and "free" tools, frameworks, components, and products for .NET, he also provides usable, practical examples and projects. The result is a highly accessible reference for finding the tools that best fit your needs. Highlights include An introduction to open source and its implementations of the .NET standards .NET development with open-source tools, including build automation, XML documentation, unit testing, continuous integration, and application logging A simple example of Integrating .NET open-source projects that integrates an Open Source SVG component with a System.Drawing graphical editor An Aspell.Net case study that shows the use of Draco.NET Continuous Integration in conjunction with NAnt, NUnit, NDoc, and the SharpDevelop IDE An exclusive look at ADO.NET database and ASP.NET Web development using PostgreSQL that runs on both Windows and Linux Appendixes on NAnt and NAntContrib tasks, log4netAppender configurations, and open-source security observations

Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is the only book that experienced .NET developers need to learn how to write distributed, service-oriented applications. Filled with clear examples in C# (with Visual Basic .NET examples available on the Web), this book will quickly get you up to speed on building distributed applications with serviced components. You'll also learn about Indigo, Microsoft's next-generation technology for building distributed applications, and how it compares to Enterprise Services.

"For anyone involved in the .NET community, it's hard to not have heard of Christian Nagel. Christian is a true heavyweight of .NET in general, and Enterprise Services in particular. By taking a relatively trivial application and architecting it in a way that would allow it to scale without any rework, users will find that using the techniques employed in this book will be of benefit to virtually any company that is running distributed or enterprise applications." —William G. Ryan, Microsoft MVP, Senior Software Developer, TiBA Soutions, LLC

If you're seeking ways to build network-based applications or XML-based web services, Microsoft provides most of the tools you'll need. XML is integrated into the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, but if you want to get a grasp on how .NET and XML actually work together, that's a different story. With .NET & XML, you can get under the hood to see how the .NET Framework implements XML, giving you the skills to write understandable XML-based code that interoperates with code written with other tools, and even other languages.

.NET & XML starts by introducing XML and the .NET Framework, and then teaches you how to read and write XML before moving on to complex methods for manipulating, navigating, transforming, and constraining it. To demonstrate the power of XML in .NET, author Niel Bornstein builds a simple hardware store inventory system throughout the book. As you move from chapter to chapter, you'll absorb increasingly complex information until you have enough knowledge to successfully program your own XML-based applications. This tutorial also contains a quick reference to the API, plus appendices present additional .NET assemblies that you can use to work with XML, and how to work with the .NET XML configuration file format.

This reference for Web developers who have worked with Web services provides information needed to create high-performance, cross-platform Web solutions in the Microsoft .NET environment. Sections cover standards that make up the Web service base platform and the classes that provide the functionality of the Microsoft ASP.NET Web service framework, building .asmx services on these core technologies, and new developments such as Web Service Enhancements and the Global XML Web Services Architecture. Foggon is a Web developer.

The dot-com bust may have soured people on e-commerce, but growth in online sales continues to soar. This all-new edition of the best-selling Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server has been completely updated for the .NET technologies, including ASP.NET, ADO.NET (for database connectivity), and Visual Basic .NET. The book offers real-world solutions for programming an online store. You get comprehensive coverage of designing an e-commerce solution, creating the user interface, building the shopping cart, checking order status, and creating promotional features for the store. The companion CD-ROM includes all the sample code and applications from the book. The new edition also has a brand-new chapter on localization and internationalization issues. You learn to create a web page that meets specific requirements, such as the correct language and currency, for a user accessing the page from a particular country.