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20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3: Faster, Smarter Web Development *
James Munro
There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET's Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes...

ASP.Net MVC 4 in Action **
Jeffrey Palermo and Jimmy Bogard and Eric Hexter and Matthew Hinze and Jeremy Skinner
ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial designed to introduce ASP.NET MVC to .NET developers and show how to apply it effectively. All examples in this revised edition are based on ASP.NET MVC 4, so you'll get full coverage of features such ...

C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference ****
Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari
When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, a...

Coding Faster: Getting More Productive With Microsoft Visual Studio: Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 ****
Zain Naboulsi and Sara Ford
Expert advice to help you work smarter and increase your productivity with Visual Studio.Take a detailed look into Visual Studio—and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Visual Studi...

Dependency Injection in .NET ****
Mark Seemann
Dependency Injection in .NET presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you'll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Win...

Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Larry Tenny and Zeeshan Hirani
Entity Framework 4.0 Recipesprovides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Entity Framework, Microsoft's vision for the future of data access. Entity Framework is a model-centric data access platform with an ocean of new concept...

Entity Framework 4.1: Expert's Cookbook *****
Devlin Liles and Tim Rayburn

Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build ****
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew
As software complexity increases, proper build practices become ever more important. This essential reference—fully updated for Visual Studio 2010—drills inside MSBuild and shows you how to maximize your control over the build and deployment process....

Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action ***
Braulio Díez and Rocío Serrano and José Fernando Almoguera and Pablo Núñez Navarro and Sebastian Stehle
Develop a full LOB Microsoft Silverlight 5 application from scratch with the help of expert advice and an accompanying case study using this book and eBook Dive straight into Silverlight 5 with the advanced techniques in this expert guideFully up-to-...

MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and Wpf ****
Ryan Vice and Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi
Eliminate unnecessary code by taking advantage of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight and WPF using this book and eBook - less code, fewer bugsBuild an enterprise application using Silverlight and WPF, taking advantage of the powerful MVVM pattern, with ...

Parallel Programming With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step ***
Donis Marshall
The roadmap for developers wanting to maximize their applications for multi-core architecture using Visual Studio 2010.

Pro .Net Best Practices
Stephen D. Ritchie
Pro .NET Best Practicesis a practical reference to the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. You will learn standards, techniques, and conventions that are sharply focused, realistic and helpful for achieving results, steerin...

Programming ASP.NET MVC 4: Developing Real-World Web Applications With ASP.NET MVC **
Jess Chadwick and Todd Snyder and Hrusikesh Panda
Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework, using powerful architecture patterns, and modern web technologies such as HTML 5 and jQuery. With this hands-on guide, you’ll gain a complete understanding of this framework w...

Programming Entity Framework: Code First *****
Julia Lerman and Rowan Miller
Review"It's a great cover-to-cover read, and I can easily see topics I'll bookmark and come back to when I hit certain scenarios. If you're planning on using EF Code First, make getting this book a priority." - John Papa, Visual Studio MagazineAbout ...

Silverlight 4 in Action
Pete Brown
Silverlight 3 in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating "Hello World" to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Written for a developer w...

XAML Developer Reference ****
Mamta Dalal and Microsoft Press and Ashish Ghoda
Sharpen your application development skills with XAML-the markup language used in Microsoft® Silverlight®, Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Phone 7. Led by expert authors, you'll learn practical ways to develop rich user interfaces...