Programming dotNET 3.5

477 Pages·2008·9.43 MB·English

by  Jesse Liberty

Programming .NET 3.5
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Programming .NET 3.5
Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz
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Programming .NET 3.5
by Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Part I. Presentation Options
1. .NET 3.5: A Better Framework for Building MVC, N-Tier, and
SOA Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Integration Versus Silos 4
What? All That in One Book? 5
2. Introducing XAML: A Declarative Way to Create Windows UIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
XAML 101 8
Simple XAML Done Simply 10
Over Here…No, Wait, I Meant Over There! 23
It’s Alive! (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Animation) 32
3. Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation:
A Richer Desktop UI Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Starting Simple: Panels 46
Nesting 65
Resources 67
Transformations 68
Animation 69
Data Binding 76
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4. Applying WPF: Building a Biz App. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Breaking the Application into Pieces 90
Adorners 90
Business Classes 95
Page 1—Adding Items to the Shopping Cart 99
Page 2—Validating the Credit Card 124
5. Introducing AJAX: Moving Desktop UIs to the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Web Applications Just Got a Whole Lot Faster 137
Getting Started 139
Creating a “Word Wheel” with AJAX 141
ScriptManager 151
What’s Next? 160
6. Applying AJAX: ListMania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Creating the To-Do List Manager 161
Personalizing the To-Do List 180
7. Introducing Silverlight: A Richer Web UI Platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Silverlight in One Chapter 195
The Breadth of Silverlight 196
Diving Deep: Building an Application 196
Controls 197
Events and Event Handlers 207
Creating Controls Dynamically 212
Data Binding 215
Styling Controls 221
Part II. Interlude on Design Patterns
8. Implementing Design Patterns with .NET 3.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
.NET 3.5 Fosters Good Design 228
The N-Tier Pattern 231
The MVC Pattern 232
The Observer Pattern/Publish and Subscribe 249
The Factory Method Pattern 258
The Chain-of-Command Pattern 266
The Singleton Pattern 274
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Part III. The Business Layer
9. Understanding LINQ: Queries As First-Class Language Constructs . . . . . . . 283
Defining and Executing a LINQ Query 284
Extension Methods 297
Adding the AdventureWorksLT Database 305
LINQ to SQL Fundamentals 308
Using the Visual Studio LINQ to SQL Designer 313
Retrieving Data 317
LINQ to XML 322
10. Introducing Windows Communication Foundation:
Accessible Service-Oriented Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Defining a Service More Precisely 328
Implementing Web Services 332
UDDI: Who Is Out There, and What Can They Do for Me? 337
How It All Works 338
WCF’s SOA Implementation 339
Putting It All Together 343
11. Applying WCF: YahooQuotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Creating and Launching a Web Service 346
Consuming the Web Service 355
12. Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Conventional (Pre-WF) Flow Control 365
Using Windows Workflow 371
Understanding the WF Runtime 383
Workflow Services 383
13. Applying WF: Building a State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Windows Workflow and State Machines 387
Building an Incident Support State Machine 387
14. Using and Applying CardSpace: A New Scheme for Establishing Identity. . . . 408
About Windows CardSpace 409
Creating a CardSpace Identity 413
Adding CardSpace Support to Your Application 418
Summary 435
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