Paperback: 729 pages

Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (November 2001)

Language: English

ISBN: 186100527X

ADO.NET is Microsoft's latest data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of previous incarnations of ADO. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data from a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and forms an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication and XML Web Services.

After completing this course, you'll not only have an idea of how to transition your skills from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005, you'll have a good understanding of the important areas within the .NET Framework. This course demonstrates many of the new features in Visual Studio 2005 and is aimed at experienced developers as well as those new to .NET.

Inside Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2003
By Brian Johnson, Craig Skibo

Publisher : Microsoft Press
Pub Date : February 12, 2003
ISBN : 0-7356-1874-7
Pages : 576

Learn how to put all the built-in power of Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2003 to work with this comprehensive, in-depth programming guide. It drills down into the internal workings of Visual Studio .NET to help you get the most out of its features, editors, and project-management capabilities. You'll see how to extend this rich, integrated development environment to maximize your productivity for any project, no matter where you are in the development cycle—or which language you use. You'll also learn how to use macros and add-ins to simplify your work. Code examples in every chapter show you exactly what to do.

Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation is a premium reference that provides information on a key part of WinFX, providing universally accessible and consistent workflow technology for the Windows platform. Windows Workflow Foundation delivers an API as part of WinFX and a workflow designer hosted in Visual Studio 2005. The Windows Workflow Foundation supports development of both sequential and state-based workflow involving both human and system interaction. Sequential workflow is a map of activities that may be in series or parallel. State-based workflow is a state machine where events cause transitions. Rules can be specified that drive decision making in a workflow and can be updated easily at runtime. Workflow can be created as a model and executed inside many host applications including Windows Forms, console applications, or Web applications.

• Key Scenarios that can be developed with Windows Workflow Foundation include:
• Document management: The steps involved in the review and approval of shared documents or other content.
• Line of business application: The processing flow or business logic in an extensible part of the application.
• Website page flow: The flow of state variables between web pages.
• IT management: Handling of common systems management processes.
• Decision making logic: Where complex business logic is well described by a sequential or state diagram.
• Consumer: A common series of steps for consumer PC usage.

Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals DotNetNuke, the popular ASP.NET open source application, is sweeping through the ranks of ASP.NET and Web developers. Whether you've never programmed your own Web site before or you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, you'll find DotNetNuke and this book have something to offer you. You'll get started with invaluable hands-on insight for installing DotNetNuke on the server and then move on to developing and administering portals created with DotNetNuke. Written by the creator and programmers of the DotNetNuke project, the book discusses operating a DotNetNuke portal. You'll see how DotNetNuke gives you a flexible architecture for rapidly developing Web applications and you'll find ways to extend the portal framework by developing modules that plug into DotNetNuke. Step-by-step instructions to administer DotNetNuke in various real-world scenarios will help you save time developing your own DotNetNuke ASP.NET sites. What you will learn from this book How to easily develop a dynamic content managed Web site Management of user membership and permissions Other features you can add to a DotNetNuke site including discussion forums, RSS feeds, calendars, and more How to instantly change your Web site user interface with skins Techniques for hosting multiple Web sites from a single account with the multiple portal capability Who this book is for Web developers or administrators who have never used ASP or ASP.NET can use this book to create their first ASP.NET portal site with no programming skill required. Experienced ASP.NET developers can use this to create ASP.NET sites quickly and efficiently using DotNetNuke. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education for new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.