hough ata binding is pervasive in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), it’s also different enough that you’ll need to rethink the way you use it in your applications. .NET 3.5 SP1,
hen you build complex UI applications, it is all too easy to end up with a messy, tightly coupled, interwoven mess that is difficult to develop and maintain; and impossible
ack before version 1.0 of the CLR shipped, Microsoft engaged a variety of commercial and academic organizations to produce languages that ran on .NET; an effort code-named “Project 7.” One
isual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.0 extensions for Visual Studio 2005 add several new templates that simplify creating .NET 3.0 items such as WPF forms, Workflows, and WCF services.
n Visual Studio 2008 running on the .NET framework 3.5, developers can not only create DataReaders and DataSets; Microsoft has also added LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data
elegates play a tremendously important role in developing applications for the .NET Framework, especially when using C# or Visual Basic. Events, a special application of delegates, are used all over
icrosoft’s IronRuby project brings a powerful and fun dynamic language to the Windows platform. The Ruby programming language is a modern, object-oriented scripting language, with a syntax inspired by languages
riginally a research language from Microsoft Research, F# has long been a “secret weapon” in the arsenal of .NET programmers for doing statistically and mathematically heavy coding. More recently, however,
ack in 2006, I coined the term polyglot programming in a blog post. It is not a new concept (being at least as old as Unix and probably much older-I