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Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed





Microsoft Silverlight allows you to create rich multimedia interfaces with the power and flexibility of Flash, but with the extensibility and the great tools that .NET offers. With Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed, you’ll learn to use Microsoft’s Silverlight technology in conjunction with ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas). You will ultimately incorporate Silverlight into an ASP.NET web site and use the ASP.NET controls that render Silverlight content. But you’ll also get the basics of Silverlight, too, making this book a must-read for any web developer curious about Silverlight.

Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed assumes a deep knowledge of ASP.NET, but no knowledge of Silverlight.

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Silverlight 1.0





Silverlight—the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista—is the web developer’s choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with Silverlight.

In these color-filled pages, a crack team of Wrox experts gives you a comprehensive introduction to Silverlight. You’ll see the vivid graphics and video images you can achieve. You will learn to use the component languages, tools, and techniques of Silverlight to create applications that enhance the user experience. You’ll also discover how to leverage existing technologies, such as JavaScript®, XAML, ASP.NET, and AJAX, and incorporate them with development tools like Visual Studio®, Expression® Encoder, and Expression Blend. Soon you’ll be building everything from basic static pages to Internet applications that integrate rich media and animation.

What you will learn from this book

* Easy ways to incorporate graphics, animation, audio, and video into Internet applications
* Methods for creating rich media apps that run on Windows® and Mac®, as well as in Internet Explorer, Firefox®, and Safari
* How to write standard JavaScript within an HTML page to manipulate and program against any XAML DOM element, storyline animation, or video
* Ways to integrate Silverlight within existing HTML pages, web sites, and ASP.NET applications
* How to handle data access in Silverlight applications using AJAX

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Essential Silverlight





Essential Silverlight teaches experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers how to add more interactive and graphically rich interfaces to their web applications using the new Microsoft® Silverlight™ cross browser plug-in.

This new, always up to date title will be revised as the software is revised, so purchasing now means you’ll get updated versions of the PDF until the final print version is released, which we anticipate to be in Summer of 2008.

Essential Silverlight teaches experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers how to add more interactive and graphically rich interfaces to their web applications using the new Microsoft® Silverlight™ cross browser plug-in.

1. Concise: Essential Silverlight is a concise introduction to Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 1.1 that doesn’t waste your time.
2. Always Up-to-Date: Essential Silverlight will be published initially as an eBook with a print-on-demand option when Silverlight 1.0 ships and will be updated each time Microsoft releases a new beta or release candidate for Silverlight 1.1 releases.
3. Day and date: The final edition of Essential Silverlight will be published when Silverlight 1.1 releases in 2008.
4. Expert author: Christian Wenz is author of Programming ASP.NET AJAX (O’Reilly, 2007) and numerous books on JavaScript in English and in German. He has written on all of the competing RIA technologies — - Flash, PHP, ActionScript, ASP.NET — and understands the market well.
5. Loaded with code: Essential Silverlight includes scores of tested examples readers can cut and paste for reuse in their own applications. All code is available for download from O’Reilly.
6. Browser agnostic and platform aware: Essential Silverlight will cover all of the browsers supported by Silverlight (including IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera), and will also point out differences as they become known between the Windows and Mac OS platforms.

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Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed





Full Color

Code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!

Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!

Silverlight is a lightweight but powerful plug-in for multiple web browsers on multiple operating systems that makes it easier than ever to create rich web-based content, applications, and controls. With support for vector graphics, animations, full-screen high-definition video, and more, Silverlight gives you the ability to create more compelling content than you dreamed possible for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Silverlight provides much of the power of Windows Presentation Foundation, but with less overhead and easy integration with HTML and AJAX-style applications. Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers the technology in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by Silverlight guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.

* Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) in Silverlight
* Examines the Silverlight feature areas in depth: graphics, text, audio, video, animation, ink, events, and more
* Demonstrates how to create reusable controls and perform common tasks (such as drag-and-drop) using basic building blocks
* Explains how to download assets asynchronously to maximize your user experience
* Demonstrates how to create hybrid applications that mix Silverlight content with HTML or Flash content
* Highlights features scheduled for future versions of Silverlight while showing how to achieve your desired results with the current version

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Mastering the Requirements Process




Written in an engaging style and relevant for any software analyst or designer, Mastering the Requirements Process provides a powerful and useful guide to defining more complete software requirements that lead to better software overall. It's also filled with innovative advice.

The heart of this book is the authors' Volere Requirements Process Model, a step-by-step guide to gathering your requisites. Throughout this book, the authors use this process to explicate a single case study--a system for a municipality that will optimize the de-icing of roadways during snowy weather. Along the way, the book provides a solid guide to identifying and refining requirements, both functional and nonfunctional (such as performance and ease of use).

There are many excellent ideas in the book, including the notion of fitness for your requirements, which can be later used to track whether the software is successful. The book also wisely separates technology from requirements so that analysts can concentrate on understanding and modeling business problems instead of moving right away to the nuts and bolts of implementation. Even if you don't adopt the Volere model in toto, you can benefit from the concepts of "trawling" (a metaphor for the requirements-gathering process), quality gateways (in which tentative requirements are evaluated for inclusion in a project), and the wise use of patterns to help simplify the process.

Anchored by numerous examples (including many samples of successful requirements), the book provides an appealing mix of new ideas along with a remarkably clear presentation. In short, Mastering the Requirements Process provides useful advice that can make the project specification building phase of the software process easier and more robust. It provides the first steps for improving overall software quality for your organization. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Volere Requirements Process Model; project blastoff; determining requirements; user and stakeholders; project constraints; requirements constraints; use cases; business events; adjacent systems; innovation; trawling for requirements: apprenticing, interviews, and videotape; functional and nonfunctional requirements; fit criteria; quality gateways; traceability; prototyping and scenarios; low and high fidelity prototypes; patterns and requirements reuse; improving the requirements gathering process.

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More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice




Have you ever delivered software that satisfied all of the project specifications, but failed to meet any of the customers' expectations? Without formal, verifiable requirements--and a system for managing them--the result is often a gap between what developers think they're supposed to build and what customers think they're going to get. Too often, lessons about software requirements engineering processes are formal or academic, and not of value to real-world, professional development teams. In MORE ABOUT SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: THORNY ISSUES AND PRACTICAL ADVICE, the author of Software Requirements, Second Edition, describes even more practical techniques for gathering and managing the software requirements that help you meet project specifications and customer expectations. A leading speaker and consultant in the field of requirements engineering, Karl Wiegers takes questions raised by other professional software developers and analysts as a basis for the practical solutions and best practices offered in this guide. Succinct and immediately useful, this book is a must-have for developers and analysts.

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Software Requirements




Software Requirements: Encapsulation, Quality, and Reuse describes how to make requirements, and their implementing code, easier to change through the use of Freedom methodology. Freedom reduces software life cycle costs by making requirements quickly adaptable to changing technology and business needs. This book examines the definition of requirements and explains how they can be encapsulated within so software engineers and analysts can understand the nature of the requirements. With the theoretical underpinnings established, the book reviews the Freedom Requirements process and details the individual tasks of the process in a how-to fashion, explaining relevant terminology, recording notations, and more.

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The Requirements Engineering Handbook




Gathering customer requirements is a key activity for developing software that meets the customer's needs. A concise and practical overview of everything a requirement's analyst needs to know about establishing customer requirements, this first-of-its-kind book is the perfect desk guide for systems or software development work. The book enables professionals to identify the real customer requirements for their projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. This unique resource helps practitioners understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. The book also explains how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications which are major contributors to project effectiveness. Moreover, analysts find clear examples and checklists to help them implement best practices.

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100% Complete Coverage—All official test objectives for exam 70-300 are covered in detail
Hands-on Exercises—Step-by-step instruction modeled after classroom labs
Exam Watch—Warning based on thorough post-exam research identifying the most troublesome exam topics and how to answer them correctly
Focused Practice Questions—Knowledge-based questions, all with in-depth answers, evaluate comprehension
Full coverage of the topics you need to review, including how to:

Understand the .NET Framework and use Visual Studio .NET software design tools
Develop a solution concept and identify key project risks
Gather and analyze business and user requirements
Transform requirements into functional and technical specifications
Develop strategies for deployment, security, operations, and testing
Create a conceptual model of data requirements
Define the technical architecture of a solution
Build the logical data model
Create a physical design
Establish standards and performance metrics

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