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Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls

Paul T. Kimmel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Learn to use Devexpress ASP.NET controls, and get $250 worth of controls included with the book

Devexpress is a leading supplier of ASP.NET controls - the addins used in ASP.NET sites. Not only does this book show you how to make the most of them with Silverlight and Ajax, reporting, calendars, editors, and charts, but you also get actual controls worth $250 on the CD-ROM included with the book.

Regardless of your level of ASP.NET expertise, this complete

Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development

Ian Lawrence, Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Ubuntu Mobile is quickly being adopted by mobile device manufacturers and provides Web browsing, e-mail, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, and simple software updates on every mobile device. As the first book on Ubuntu Mobile, this resource is authored by one of the top experts for Ubuntu Mobile who shows how to implement solutions for original equipment manufacturers and independent

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Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0

Richard Wagner — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

The must-have reference for building and optimizing Web applications for Safari on iPhone 3.0

The iPhone offers a compelling Web-based application development platform revolving around its built-in browser, Safari, which is built upon the open source WebKit framework. This must-have book serves as a hands-on guide to developing iPhone and iPod touch Web applications.

Beginning with an introduction to Web application development for iPhone, this unique

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solution

Erik Veerman, Jessica M. Moss, Brian Knight, Jay Hackney — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

An authoritative guide to designing effective solutions for data cleansing, ETL, and file management with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the leading tool in the data warehouse industry, used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations.

After an overview of SSIS architecture, the authors walk you a series of real-world problems and show various techniques for handling them.

Beginning PHP 5.3

Matt Doyle — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Serving as a complete introduction to PHP 5.3, this book walks you through all the major concepts of PHP in a way that’s easy to follow, with plenty of code snippets illustrating each concept to aid learning. You’ll discover how to install and configure PHP 5.3, how to get started with simple programs, and the basic building blocks of PHP such as variables, operators, expressions, arrays, and objects. Coverage working with files, XML, and MySQL; building

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Professional Oracle WebLogic Server

Robert Patrick, Gregory Nyberg, Philip Aston — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Authoritative guide to Oracle WebLogic Server-from Oracle insiders

If you're an experienced Java developer who wants to expand your skills, Professional Oracle WebLogic Server is the perfect guide for you. This book is written by a top-notch author team that that includes one of the lead architects from Oracle’s Fusion Middleware Development Architects team.

Follow their best practices, workarounds, and sound techniques and confidently develop even

Testing ASP.NET Web Applications

Jeff McWherter, Ben Hall — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

A unique resource that combines all aspects of Web testing and makes it completely specific to ASP.NET

As Microsoft's key Web technology for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites and Web applications, ASP.NET is incredibly popular. This is the first book to combine several testing topics and make them specific to ASP.NET. The author duo of Microsoft MVPs covers both the test-driven development approach and the specifics of automated user interface

Beginning JavaScript, 4th Edition

Paul Wilton, Jeremy McPeak — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The perennial bestseller returns with new details for using the latest tools and techniques available with JavaScript

JavaScript is the definitive language for making the Web a dynamic, rich, interactive medium. This guide to JavaScript builds on the success of previous editions and introduces you to many new advances in JavaScript development. The reorganization of the chapters helps streamline your learning process while new examples provide you

ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution

Chris Love — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

* Uses the popular Problem;Design;Solution format to help readers, especially those who know how to code specific ASP.NET features, learn to "put it all together" into a complete Web application
* Emphasizes n-tier ASP.NET Web application architectural design, something intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers need and can't find anywhere else
* Current edition is the most popular and discussed book in the p2p.wrox.com reader discussion forums
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Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development: Managing Official Records with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

John Holliday — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Unique guide to records management methodologies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

There may be books available on how to develop solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but this is the first book to provide step-by-step guidance for designing and building records management solutions on the SharePoint platform. You'll learn the five core services of any records management system-confidentiality, information integrity, high

Professional Enterprise .NET

Jon Arking, Scott Millett — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Comprehensive coverage to help experienced .NET developers create flexible, extensible enterprise application code

If you're an experienced Microsoft .NET developer, you'll find in this book a road map to the latest enterprise development methodologies. It covers the tools you will use in addition to Visual Studio, including Spring.NET and nUnit, and applies to development with ASP.NET, C#, VB, Office

Professional BlazeDS: Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java

Shashank Tiwari — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

A hands-on guide to creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using BlazeDS

BlazeDS enables you to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications in order to garner more responsive Rich Internet Application (RIA) experiences. It is a scalable option for Flex and Java integration and allows you to create excellent RIAs with both Flex and Java.

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform

Roger Jennings — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Leverage the power of the Azure Services Platform for cloud computing

With the Azure Services Platform, processing and storing data moves from individual corporate servers and Web sites to larger, more reliable, and more secure data centers. Roger Jennings, author of more than 30 books on Microsoft technologies, shows you how to leverage the power of Azure and its related services for cloud computing.

jQuery for ASP.NET Developers

Joe Brinkman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

This Wrox Blox teaches you how to use jQuery with your ASP.NET-based websites. jQuery greatly simplifies JavaScript development and allows you to create highly interactive and responsive websites using the latest JavaScript and AJAX techniques. The author walks you through the jQuery API using a simple ASP.NET MVC application to highlight major topics, and shows how you can apply jQuery to your own applications. After learning the basics of using

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Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Coskun Cavusoglu, Jacob J. Sanford, Reza Alirezaei — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Essential guide to developing and deploying high-profile reports in SharePoint

Build customized reports quickly and efficiently with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services for SharePoint sites and this unique guide. Developers, you'll learn report development and deployment; SharePoint or SQL Server Reporting Services administrators, you'll see how to leverage SharePoint to use SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode.

ASP.NET 4 AJAX Client Templates

Craig Shoemaker — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

This Wrox Blox will teach you how to create and customize ASP.NET 4 AJAX Preview 4 Client Templates. The author shows you how to use declarative as well as imperative data-binding techniques to address the simple to advanced UI requirements. He also covers how the observer pattern is fully implemented in ASP.NET 4 AJAX and, when used in conjunction with the Client Template markup extensions, provides a developer experience much like XAML-based applications

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem - Design - Solution

Emad Ibrahim — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

A hands-on journey takes you through the development process of a Web application from concept to production

ASP.NET MVC is a new Web development framework created by Microsoft as an alternative to ASP.NET web forms applications. MVC is well suited to testability, and Test Driven Development (TDD) affords you a generous level of control while also making MVC very powerful and extensible. This book takes the ASP.NET MVC and combines it with a testing

Beginning XSLT and XPath: Transforming XML Documents and Data

Ian Williams — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Provides the basic education in the XSLT processing model that developers have requested

The growth of XML content management applications is boosting the demand for XSLT and XPath skills. This beginning Wrox book provides a firm foundation in the XSLT processing model, giving developers an important skillset.

If, like many developers, you've had trouble grasping the XSLT processing model, you'll appreciate how this book focuses specifically on what

Professional Twitter Development: With Examples in .NET 3.5

Daniel Crenna — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Twitter is rapidly moving up the social networking food chain and is currently outranked by only Facebook and MySpace. It features a programming API that allows you to build Web sites and applications (both desktop and mobile) for reading and posting to Twitter, finding other Twitter users, aggregating Twitter content, and other uses. This book walks you through the process of combining many programming tools in order to build exciting, useful, and

Professional JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype,YUI, ExtJS, Dojo and MooTools

Leslie M. Orchard, Ara Pehlivanian, Scott Koon, Harley Jones — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT

As the industry-standard, must-know scripting language, JavaScript is supported by all major browsers and is increasingly the foundation of new web development technologies such as Ajax and JSON. This book offers a selection of some of the most active and most used JavaScript frameworks available, replete with practical examples and explanations of what each framework does best. You’ll look at common web development tasks and discover how each framework

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