Book Chapters:
Chapter 1
An introduction to ASP.NET web programming

Chapter 1 gives you the background you need to start writing ASP.NET 2.0 web applications of your own. So you’ll find out how web applications work, what software you need to develop them, and how the HTML code for a web form is coordinated with the Visual Basic code that makes the web form work the way you want it to.
Chapter 2
How to develop a one-page web application
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Book Abstract:
.NET Coding Guidelines is a 100+ page ebook (PDF) on naming conventions, best coding practices and patterns written by the industry expert Steven Sartain and delivered to you for Free by SubMain.

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The document covers:

* Naming Guidelines
* Class Member Usage Guidelines
* Guidelines for Exposing Functionality to COM
* Error Raising & Handling Guidelines
* Array Usage Guidelines
* Operator Overloading Usage Guidelines
* Guidelines for Casting Types
* Common Design Patterns
* Callback Function Usage
* Time-Out Usage
* Security in Class Libraries
* Threading Design Guidelines
* Formatting Standards
* Commenting Code
* Code Reviews
* Additional Notes for VB .NET Developers

Book Abstract:

Just getting your feet wet with Visual Basic .NET? Then try this free QuickStart: Visual Basic .NET. Here you’ll find the basics to help you get started with this powerful Windows development tool. The PDF contains detailed instructions on building your very first “Hello, World” application as well as instructions for some common tasks, such as querying a database or reading in an XML file.

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free ebook in C++Bruce Eckel’s, Excellent tutorial on the ins and outs of C++, the hard cover book is published by Prentice Hall. Thinking in C++, Volume 1, 2nd Edition covers 16 chapters.
* Chapter 1: Introduction to Objects. The chapter walks you through the basic concepts and features of OOP and also introduces the analysis and design process. In addition, you?ll learn about the benefits and concerns of adopting the language and suggestions for moving into the world of C++.
* Chapter 2: Making and Using Objects. This chapter explains the process of building programs using compilers and libraries. It introduces the first C++ program in the book and shows how programs are constructed and compiled. Then some of the basic libraries of objects available in Standard C++ are introduced.
* Chapter 3: The C in C++. This chapter is a dense overview of the features in C that are used in C++, as well as a number of basic features that are available only in C++. It also introduces the ?make? utility that?s common in the software development world and that is used to build all the examples in this book (the source code for the book, which is available at www.BruceEckel.com, contains makefiles for each chapter).
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Introduction to ASP.pdf
Are you sick of static HTML pages? Do you want to create dynamic web pages? Do you want to enable your web pages with database access? If your answer is ?Yes?, ASP might be a solution for you. In May 2000, Microsoft estimated that there are over 800,000ASP developers in the world (1). You may come up with a question what the heck ASP is. Don?t worry. After reading this paper, you will know what it is, how it works and what it can do for you. Are you ready? Let?s get to know ASP together.
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