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.NET 3.0 Sample Chapters

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Sample chapter: "Programming Indigo: Contracts," July, 2005, from Programming Indigo, by David Pallmann. Discusses understanding contracts, programming service contracts, programming data contracts, and programming message contracts.

Programming Indigo: The Programming Model

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Sample chapter: "Programming Indigo: The Programming Model," July, 2005, from Programming Indigo, by David Pallmann. Discusses setting up for Indigo, the development process, the programming model, and the levels of programming.

Organizing Workflows

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Sample chapter: "Organizing Workflows," from Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems (Cooperative Information Systems), March 2004, by Wil vanderAalst and Kees vanHee. Discusses ontology of workflow management and the business process.

Workflow, Tomorrow's Application Logic

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Sample chapter: "Workflow, Tomorrow's Application Logic," from Presenting the Windows Workflow Foundation, September 2005, by Paul Andrew, James Conard, Scott Woodgate, Jon Flanders, George Hatoun, Israel Hilerio, Pravin Indurkar, Dennis Pilarinos, and Jurgen Willis. Discusses flowcharts, today's workflow scenarios, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation engine architecture, and the hosting layer.

The Basics of XAML

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Sample chapter: "The Basics of XAML," March 2006, from XAML in a Nutshell, by Lori MacVittie. Discusses core XAML syntax, root elements, control elements, panel elements, shape and geometric elements, document elements, attributes, attached properties, binding properties, and codebehind.

What is XAML?

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Sample chapter: “Chapter One,” from Professional WinFX Beta: Covers “Avalon” Windows Presentation Foundation and “Indigo” Windows Communication Foundation (Programmer to Programmer), September 2005, by Jean-Luc David, Bill Ryan, Ron DeSerranno, and Alexandra Young. Discusses What is XAML? XAML syntax, namespace, important concepts, trees in Avalon, dependency properties, and what is the dependency property system.

XAML and XAML Syntax

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Sample chapter: “Chapter One,” from Professional WinFX Beta: Covers “Avalon” Windows Presentation Foundation and “Indigo” Windows Communication Foundation (Programmer to Programmer), September 2005, by Jean-Luc David, Bill Ryan, Ron DeSerranno, and Alexandra Young. Discusses XAML, XAML syntax, namespace, trees in Avalon, dependency properties, and the dependency property system.

The Longhorn Application Model

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Sample chapter: “The Longhorn Application Model,” for Introducing WinFX The Application Programming Interface for the Next Generation Of Microsoft Windows Code Name Longhorn, January 2004, by Brent Rector. Discusses the features of the Longhorn application model, Longhorn Web applications, Longhorn desktop applications, building a Longhorn application, and deploying a Longhorn application.