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Welcome to the Free Books section. In this section, you may browse free books and book chapters available.
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Chapter 15: Customizing the Display
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Manning Publication
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Jan 19, 2012
Silverlight has everything you need to format display values, convert both inbound and outbound values, provide special handling for null values and even provide fallbacks for cases when binding fails. Throughout this book, you'll see how to customize the visual representation of your data using these powerful features.
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Chapter 9: OpenType Font Support
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Manning Publication
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Jan 19, 2012
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at OpenType support including ligatures, alternatives and stylistic sets, font capitals, fractions and number formats, and variants including superscript and subscript.
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Chapter 1: SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions and Enhancements
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Microsoft Press
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Feb 02, 2011
This chapter introduces the new SQL Server 2008 R2 features, capabilities, and editions from a DBA's perspective. It also discusses why Windows Server 2008 R2 is recommended as the underlying operating system for deploying SQL Server 2008 R2. Last, SQL Server 2008 R2 hardware and software requirements and installation strategies are also identified.
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Chapter 1: Getting Your Tools
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Apress
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Oct 05, 2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, the latest version of Visual Studio, provides functionality for building WPF,WCF, WF, and LINQ applications by using VB 2008 or other .NET languages.Visual Studio 2008 targets multiple .NET Framework versions by allowing you to build and maintain applications for .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0 in addition to its native and default support
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Chapter 2: Creating Versatile Types
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SAMS Publishing
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Mar 24, 2010
This chapter is all about making your own objects as useful and versatile as possible. In many cases, this means implementing the standard interfaces that .NET provides or simply overriding base class methods.
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Chapter 6: Process Management
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Addison Wesley
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Feb 10, 2010
This chapter explains the basics of process management and also introduces the basic synchronization operations and wait functions that will be important throughout the rest of the book.
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Chapter 8: C# 4.0 Features
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Addison Wesley
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Feb 02, 2010
This chapter looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources.
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Chapter 1: SQL Query Performance Tuning
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Apress
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Jan 26, 2010
Query performance tuning is an important part of today's database applications. Often you can achieve large savings in both time and money with proper query performance tuning
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Chapter 6: Memory Corruption Part II - Heaps
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Addison Wesley
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Nov 16, 2009
This chapter discusses a myriad of stability issues that can surface in an application when the heap is used in a nonconventional fashion. Although the stack and the heap are managed very differently in Windows, the process by which we analyze stack- and heap-related problems is the same.
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Chapter 1 - Introduction to "M"
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Addison Wesley
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Nov 03, 2009
The "Oslo" Modeling Language (M) is a modern, declarative language for working with data. M lets users write down how they want to structure and query their data using a convenient textual syntax that is convenient to both author and read.
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Chapter 2: How to code a JavaScript application
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Murach
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Nov 02, 2009
This chapter presents a subset of JavaScript and DOM scripting that will soon have you writing significant applications. If you don't have any programming experience, this chapter also makes a great aptitude test. If you read it and can do the exercises at the end of the chapter, you're ready for the rest of this book.
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Chapter 4 - Normalizing a Data Model
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Addison Wesley
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Sep 01, 2009
Data normalization is probably one of the most talked-about aspects of database modeling. Before building your data model, you must answer a few questions about normalization. These questions include whether or not to use the formal normalization forms, which of these forms to use, and when to denormalize.
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Chapter 13 - Programmable Web
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Addison Wesley
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Aug 25, 2009
The new Web programming capabilities in WCF simplify the building of services for use on the Web. This chapter covers these services, including SOAP, POX, the UriTemplate class, the webHttpBinding binding, configuration-free hosting, and content syndication models.
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Chapter 11: An introduction to LINQ
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Murach
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Aug 13, 2009
In this chapter, you’ll learn the basic concepts and skills for using a new feature of C# 2008 called LINQ. To illustrate these concepts and skills, I’ll use an
implementation of LINQ called LINQ to Objects. You use LINQ to Objects to work with in-memory data structures such as generic lists and arrays.
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Chapter 8 : Reading Objects with LINQ to SQL
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Addison Wesley
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Jul 28, 2009
It uses the mapping of classes to tables to translate LINQ queries to SQL commands and then materializes objects from the rows returned. The objects can be related to each other in a graph of objects that is managed by LINQ to SQL on your behalf.
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Writing Windows C# Programs
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Addison Wesley
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Jul 21, 2009
The C# language has its roots in C++, Visual Basic, and Java. Both C# and VB.Net use the same libraries and compile to the same underlying code. Both are managed languages with garbage collection of unused variable space, and
both can be used interchangeably. Both also use classes with method names that are very similar to those in Java, so if you are familiar with Java, you will have no trouble with C#.
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