ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook @ebook.laku-abis.com

This book is particularly written for web developers looking to transfer their knowledge from the ASP.NET web forms way of doing things to the ASP.NET MVC framework. As this book targets readers of various experience levels, you should be able to find recipes of a basic, intermediate, and advanced nature. Regardless of your experience level, each recipe will walk you through the solution in a step-by-step manner that anyone should be able to follow. ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook

Building The Data Warehouse

We are told that the hieroglyphics in Egypt are primarily the work of an accountant declaring how much grain is owed the Pharaoh. Some of the streets in Rome were laid out by civil engineers more than 2,000 years ago. Examination of bones found in archeological excavations in Chile shows that medicine—in, at least, a rudimentary form—was practiced as far back as 10,000 years ago. Other professions have roots that can be traced to antiquity. From this perspective, the profession and practice of information systems and processing are certainly immature, because they have existed only since the early 1960s. Information processing shows this immaturity in many ways, such as its tendency to dwell on detail.

536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

HTML 5 - Up and Running

What is HTML5? HTML5 is the next generation of HTML, superseding HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1. HTML5 provides new features that are necessary for modern web applications. It also standardizes many features of the web platform that web developers have been using for years, but that have never been vetted or documented by a standards committee. (Would it surprise you to learn that the Window object
has never been formally documented? In addition to the new features, HTML5 is the first attempt to formally document many of the “de facto” standards that web browsers have supported for years.)

HTML 5 – Up and Running

Photo Retouching with Photoshop

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How to Hypnotize People into Reading Your Sales Materials Ebook

The following is a collection of Joe Vitale’s Hypnotic marketing articles.

The following is a collection of Joe Vitale’s Hypnotic marketing articles.I understand how tough it can be to try and make money online or build an internet business. I’ve been there, done that. With that said, the following has helped me greatly and I wanted to pass it on to you. I really hope it will help you get you going to create an income you deserve.I am a true believer that any one can do anything they put their mind to, if they believe and take action. So use what your about to learn and do something today, not tomorrow, today!

Pro WPF in VB 2010

When .NET first appeared, it introduced a small avalanche of new technologies. There was a whole new
way to write web applications (ASP.NET), a whole new way to connect to databases (ADO.NET), new
typesafe languages (C# and VB .NET), and a managed runtime (the CLR). Not least among these new
technologies was Windows Forms, a library of classes for building Windows applications.
Although Windows Forms is a mature and full-featured toolkit, it’s hardwired to essential bits of
Windows plumbing that haven’t changed much in the past ten years. Most significantly, Windows Forms
relies on the Windows API to create the visual appearance of standard user interface elements such as
buttons, text boxes, check boxes, and so on. As a result, these ingredients are essentially uncustomizable.
For example, if you want to create a stylish glow button you need to create a custom control and
paint every aspect of the button (in all its different states) using a lower-level drawing model. Even
worse, ordinary windows are carved up into distinct regions, with each control getting its own piece of
real estate. As a result, there’s no good way for the painting in one control (for example, the glow effect
behind a button) to spread into the area owned by another control. And don’t even think about
introducing animated effects such as spinning text, shimmering buttons, shrinking windows, or live
previews because you’ll have to paint every detail by hand.

Pro WPF in VB 2010

When .NET first appeared, it introduced a small avalanche of new technologies. There was a whole newway to write web applications (ASP.NET), a whole new way to connect to databases (ADO.NET), newtypesafe languages (C# and VB .NET), and a managed runtime (the CLR). Not least among these newtechnologies was Windows Forms, a library of classes for building Windows applications.Although Windows Forms is a mature and full-featured toolkit, it’s hardwired to essential bits ofWindows plumbing that haven’t changed much in the past ten years. Most significantly, Windows Formsrelies on the Windows API to create the visual appearance of standard user interface elements such asbuttons, text boxes, check boxes, and so on. As a result, these ingredients are essentially uncustomizable.For example, if you want to create a stylish glow button you need to create a custom control andpaint every aspect of the button (in all its different states) using a lower-level drawing model. Evenworse, ordinary windows are carved up into distinct regions, with each control getting its own piece ofreal estate. As a result, there’s no good way for the painting in one control (for example, the glow effectbehind a button) to spread into the area owned by another control. And don’t even think aboutintroducing animated effects such as spinning text, shimmering buttons, shrinking windows, or livepreviews because you’ll have to paint every detail by hand.The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) changes all this by introducing a model with entirelydifferent plumbing. Although WPF includes the standard controls you’re familiar with, it draws everytext, border, and background fill itself. As a result, WPF can provide much more powerful features thatlet you alter the way any piece of screen content is rendered. Using these features, you can restylecommon controls such as buttons, often without writing any code. Similarly, you can use transformationobjects to rotate, stretch, scale, and skew anything in your user interface, and you can even use WPF’sbaked-in animation system to do it right before the user’s eyes. And because the WPF engine renders thecontent for a window as part of a single operation, it can handle unlimited layers of overlappingcontrols, even if these controls are irregularly shaped and partially transparent.
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) changes all this by introducing a model with entirely
different plumbing. Although WPF includes the standard controls you’re familiar with, it draws every
text, border, and background fill itself. As a result, WPF can provide much more powerful features that
let you alter the way any piece of screen content is rendered. Using these features, you can restyle
common controls such as buttons, often without writing any code. Similarly, you can use transformation
objects to rotate, stretch, scale, and skew anything in your user interface, and you can even use WPF’s
baked-in animation system to do it right before the user’s eyes. And because the WPF engine renders the
content for a window as part of a single operation, it can handle unlimited layers of overlapping
controls, even if these controls are irregularly shaped and partially transparent.

Cross Platform Game Development

Browsing the web one cold evening while writing this book led me to a technical web site featuring the following quote, attributed to Herbert Mayer:
“No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single
best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps
poorly suited for particular purposes.”
This kind of contextual philosophy — that everything is defined by context, that languages are not in themselves either good or bad, or one thing or another — need not apply only to programming languages.

Indeed, it may equally apply to many other facets of computing, from graphic design application to whether one selects an open-source web browser. But perhaps this philosophy applies most of all to the computing concept of “platforms,” meaning operating systems such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. Perhaps platforms too are defined by context and not by themselves. In the current computing climate, one divided by the controversies of open-source software versus proprietary software, patenting, DRM, and copy-protection scandals, it’s easy to take up positions and arguments for one or the other — believing it to be wholly wrong or wholly right — and then lose sight of the context. But if platforms really are defined by context, by how people use them, the kinds of things one can do on the platform, the kinds of circumstances in which the platform has developed; then to lose sight of context is to lose sight altogether

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Effective UI - The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software

Just as a finished software product never looks anything like the original plans and expectations for it, writing this book carried us in a surprising but interestingly different direction than we’d originally assumed. When you imagine what it might take to succeed at building an effective user interface (UI) built with a modern standard of user experience (UX) quality, you might think of high-end design, innovation and inspiration, and technical best practices. These are certainly all important components, but our experience helping other businesses build great products has shown us that a team’s ability to deliver on the promise of good UX is only partially dependent on its creativity and technical competency. The rest depends on creating the right climate for the team and within the company that allows the team to be effective and helps success come more reliably and easily.

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