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| Preface | |
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| Presentation Options | |
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| .NET 3.5: A Better Framework for Building MVC, N-Tier, and SOA Applications | |
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| Integration Versus Silos | |
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| What? All That in One Book? | |
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| Introducing XAML: A Declarative Way to Create Windows UIs | |
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| XAML 101 | |
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| Simple XAML Done Simply | |
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| Over Here...No, Wait, I Meant Over There! | |
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| It's Alive! (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Animation) | |
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| Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation: A Richer Desktop UI Experience | |
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| Starting Simple: Panels | |
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| Nesting | |
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| Resources | |
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| Transformations | |
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| Animation | |
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| Data Binding | |
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| Applying WPF: Building a Biz App | |
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| Breaking the Application into Pieces | |
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| Adorners | |
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| Business Classes | |
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| Adding Items to the Shopping Cart | |
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| Validating the Credit Card | |
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| Introducing AJAX: Moving Desktop UIs to the Web | |
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| Web Applications Just Got a Whole Lot Faster | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Creating a "Word Wheel" with AJAX | |
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| ScriptManager | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Applying AJAX: ListMania | |
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| Creating the To-Do List Manager | |
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| Personalizing the To-Do List | |
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| Introducing Silverlight: A Richer Web UI Platform | |
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| Silverlight in One Chapter | |
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| The Breadth of Silverlight | |
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| Diving Deep: Building an Application | |
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| Controls | |
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| Events and Event Handlers | |
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| Creating Controls Dynamically | |
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| Data Binding | |
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| Styling Controls | |
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| Interlude on Design Patterns | |
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| Implementing Design Patterns with .NET 3.5 | |
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| .NET 3.5 Fosters Good Design | |
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| The N-Tier Pattern | |
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| The MVC Pattern | |
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| The Observer Pattern/Publish and Subscribe | |
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| The Factory Method Pattern | |
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| The Chain-of-Command Pattern | |
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| The Singleton Pattern | |
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| The Business Layer | |
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| Understanding LINQ: Queries As First-Class Language Constructs | |
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| Defining and Executing a LINQ Query | |
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| Extension Methods | |
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| Adding the Adventure WorksLT Database | |
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| LINQ to SQL Fundamentals | |
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| Using the Visual Studio LINQ to SQL Designer | |
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| Retrieving Data | |
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| LINQ to XML | |
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| Introducing Windows Communication Foundation: Accessible Service-Oriented Architecture | |
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| Defining a Service More Precisely | |
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| Implementing Web Services | |
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| UDDI: Who Is Out There, and What Can They Do for Me? | |
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| How It All Works | |
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| WCF's SOA Implementation | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Applying WCF: YahooQuotes | |
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| Creating and Launching a Web Service | |
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| Consuming the Web Service | |
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| Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation | |
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| Conventional (Pre-WF) Flow Control | |
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| Using Windows Workflow | |
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| Understanding the WF Runtime | |
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| Workflow Services | |
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| Applying WF: Building a State Machine | |
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| Windows Workflow and State Machines | |
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| Building an Incident Support State Machine | |
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| Using and Applying CardSpace: A New Scheme for Establishing Identity | |
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| About Windows CardSpace | |
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| Creating a CardSpace Identity | |
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| Adding CardSpace Support to Your Application | |
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| Summary | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |