Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time.

Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but for any web developers interested in ASP.NET AJAX, no matter what technology they use currently. That includes JavaScript programmers who would like to avoid the headaches of writing cross-browser code.

Programming ASP.NET AJAX offers you:

• A high-level overview of the ASP.NET AJAX framework
• Functional code that you can cut and paste for use in your own applications
• The essentials of JavaScript and Ajax to help you understand individual technologies used by the framework
• An organization that reflects the framework's packages, including Extensions, Control Toolkit, the Futures CTP, and the AJAX Library
• Sidebars throughout the book that identify and propose solutions to potential security breaches
• Ways to use the standards-based AJAX Library with other platforms, such as PHP
• A complete chapter on the UpdatePanel control for making individual parts of a web page independently updateable — one of the framework's most important elements

Released previously as Programming Atlas to cover the beta version of the Microsoft framework, this edition is fully up-to-date and expanded for the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX. Written by Christian Wenz — Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and AJAX Control Toolkit Contributor — Programming ASP.NET AJAX contains many hard-to-find details, along with a few unofficial ways to accomplish things.

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While building on the skills you already have, Expert SQL Server 2005 Development will help you become an even better developer by focusing on best practices and demonstrating how to design high–performance, maintainable database applications.

This book starts by reintroducing the database as a integral part of the software development ecosystem. You’ll learn how to think about SQL Server development as you would any other software development. For example, there's no reason you can’t architect and test database routines just as you would architect and test application code. And nothing should stop you from implementing the types of exception handling and security rules that are considered so important in other tiers, even if they are usually ignored in the database.

You’ll learn how to apply development methodologies like these to produce high–quality encryption and SQLCLR solutions. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to exploit a variety of tools that SQL Server offers in order to properly use dynamic SQL and to improve concurrency in your applications. Finally, you’ll become well versed in implementing spatial and temporal database designs, as well as approaching graph and hierarchy problems.
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This book will show you how to create documents of your own so you can share them on the web. You’ll become intimately familiar with the rules and constructs of HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the computer language the web is built on. It’s a simple language, and the basic rules are easy to pick up and put to use. HTML is a tool, and once you know how to use it, you’re limited only by your imagination.

This book is for anyone interested in learning how to build web pages from the ground up using modern best practices. We assume you’re familiar with the Internet and the World Wide Web, and you probably wouldn’t pick up a book with “HTML” in the title unless you’d at least heard of it. Beyond that, we don’t assume any prior knowledge of web design or computer programming. As you advance through this book, the topics get a little more advanced as well. But fear not: this is a book for beginners, and we’ll walk you through the tough parts.

Even if you’re not a beginner, this may be well worth a read. Only a few short years ago, the common approach to building web pages was very different from how things are done today. A lot has changed in recent times, so if you’re a more experienced web developer looking to get back to basics and see what all this “semantic XHTML and CSS” mumbo-jumbo is about, this is the book for you.

Here we present a brief road map of where this book is going to take you. The first two chapters lead you through the bare essentials you’ll need to start creating your own web documents. Throughout the bulk of this book, Chapters 3 through 10, you’ll dig into different subject areas within HTML and XHTML, becoming familiar with all of the different elements at your disposal. Along the way, you’ll also see examples of some of the many CSS techniques you might use to visually design your pages. We finish up with Chapter 11, where you’ll see a case study that takes much of what you’ve learned throughout the previous chapters and puts it together into a functional website, built from scratch with XHTML and CSS.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Getting Started
Chapter 02 - XHTML and CSS Basics
Chapter 03 - Moving A<head>
Chapter 04 - Adding Content
Chapter 05 - Using Images
Chapter 06 - Linking to the Web
Chapter 07 - Using Tables
Chapter 08 - Building Forms
Chapter 09 - Adding Style to Your Documents: CSS
Chapter 10 - Client-Side Scripting Basics
Chapter 11 - Putting It All Together
Appendix A - XHTML 1.0 Strict Reference
Appendix B - Color Names and Values
Appendix C - Special Characters
Appendix D - CSS Browser Support

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ASP.NET allows web sites to display unique pages for each visitor rather than show the same static HTML pages. The release of ASP.NET 2.0 is a revolutionary leap forward in the area of web application development. It brings with it a wealth of new and exciting built-in functions that reduce the amount of code you'll need to write for even the most common applications.

With more than 50 new server controls, the number of classes inside ASP.NET 2.0 has more than doubled, and in many cases, the changes in this new version are dramatic. This book will alert you to every new feature and capability that ASP.NET 2.0 provides so that you'll be prepared to put these new technologies into action. Greatly expanded from the original best-selling Professional ASP.NET 2.0, this new special edition adds hundreds of pages of new coverage of advanced and new techniques relating to data and data sources, the provider model, personalization, membership, role management, localization, configuration, migration, and Altas.

This book is for experienced programmers and developers who are looking to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Hello ASP.NET 2.0!
Chapter 02 - Visual Studio 2005
Chapter 03 - Application and Page Frameworks
Chapter 04 - ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts
Chapter 05 - ASP.NET Web Server Controls
Chapter 06 - ASP.NET 2.0 Web Server Controls
Chapter 07 - Validation Server Controls
Chapter 08 - Working with Master Pages
Chapter 09 - Themes and Skins
Chapter 10 - Collections and Lists
Chapter 11 - Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
Chapter 12 - Data Management with ADO.NET
Chapter 13 - Working with XML
Chapter 14 - Introduction to the Provider Model
Chapter 15 - Extending the Provider Model
Chapter 16 - Site Navigation
Chapter 17 - Personalization
Chapter 18 - Membership and Role Management
Chapter 19 - Portal Frameworks and Web Parts
Chapter 20 - Security
Chapter 21 - State Management
Chapter 22 - Caching
Chapter 23 - Debugging and Error Handling Techniques
Chapter 24 - File I/O and Streams
Chapter 25 - User and Server Controls
Chapter 26 - Modules and Handlers
Chapter 27 - Using Business Objects
Chapter 28 - Mobile Development
Chapter 29 - Building and Consuming XML Web Services
Chapter 30 - Localization
Chapter 31 - Configuration
Chapter 32 - Instrumentation
Chapter 33 - Administration and Management
Chapter 34 - Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Applications
Appendix A - Visual Basic 8.0 and C# 2.0 Language Enhancements
Appendix B - Migrating ASP.NET 1.x Projects
Appendix C - Using Atlas
Appendix D - ASP.NET Online Resources 

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If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with this framework. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ, and .NET 3.5, along with ASP.NET 3.5 — sites that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures. 

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures — not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises.

Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.

You learn how to:

• Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model
• Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer
• Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows
• Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching
• Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites
• Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendly web services
• Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive
• Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users
• Deploy and run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need. 

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Dive deep into the internals of query tuning and optimization in SQL Server 2005 with this comprehensive reference. Understanding the internals of SQL Server helps database developers and administrators to better create, access, and effectively process information from enterprise data. Written by experts on SQL Server, this volume from the Inside Microsoft SQL Server series of books focuses on query tuning and optimization. You'll take an in-depth look at the best ways to make queries more efficient and effective, while maximizing existing resources. Includes extensive code samples and table examples to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of query tuning and optimization.

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Your in-depth guide to using the new Microsoft data mining standard to solve today's business problems

Concealed inside your data warehouse and data marts is a wealth of valuable information just waiting to be discovered. All you need are the right tools to extract that information and put it to use. Serving as your expert guide, this book shows you how to create and implement data mining applications that will find the hidden patterns from your historical datasets. The authors explore the core concepts of data mining as well as the latest trends. They then reveal the best practices in the field, utilizing the innovative features of SQL Server 2005 so that you can begin building your own successful data mining projects.

You'll learn:

• The principal concepts of data mining
• How to work with the data mining algorithms included in SQL Server data mining
• How to use DMX-the data mining query language
• The XML for Analysis API
• The architecture of the SQL Server 2005 data mining component
• How to extend the SQL Server 2005 data mining platform by plugging in your own algorithms
• How to implement a data mining project using SQL Server Integration Services
• How to mine an OLAP cube
• How to build an online retail site with cross-selling features
• How to access SQL Server 2005 data mining features programmaticall

About the Authors.

Credits.

Foreword.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Mining.

Chapter 2: OLE DB for Data Mining.

Chapter 3: Using SQL Server Data Mining.

Chapter 4: Microsoft Naïve Bayes.

Chapter 5: Microsoft Decision Trees.

Chapter 6: Microsoft Time Series.

Chapter 7: Microsoft Clustering.

Chapter 8: Microsoft Sequence Clustering.

Chapter 9: Microsoft Association Rules.

Chapter 10: Microsoft Neural Network.

Chapter 11: Mining OLAP Cubes.

Chapter 12: Data Mining with SQL Server Integration Services.

Chapter 13: SQL Server Data Mining Architecture.

Chapter 14: Programming SQL Server Data Mining.

Chapter 15: Implementing a Web Cross-Selling Application.

Chapter 16: Advanced Forecasting Using Microsoft Excel.

Chapter 17: Extending SQL Server Data Mining.

Chapter 18: Conclusion and Additional Resources.

Appendix A: Importing Datasets.

Appendix B: Supported VBA and Excel Functions.

Index.

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