Silverlight 1.0

Silverlight--the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista--is the web developer's choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with Silverlight.
In these color-filled pages, a crack team of Wrox experts gives you a comprehensive introduction to Silverlight. You'll see the vivid graphics and video images you can achieve. You will learn to use the component languages, tools, and techniques of Silverlight to create applications that enhance the user experience. You'll also discover how to leverage existing technologies, such as JavaScript(r), XAML, ASP.NET, and AJAX, and incorporate them with development tools like Visual Studio(r), Expression(r) Encoder, and Expression Blend. Soon you'll be building everything from basic static pages to Internet applications that integrate rich media and animation.

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Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation

See the power of Silverlight in action
Learn the building blocks of animation in Silverlight 2
Includes over 180 example Silverlight projects

Silverlight is a phenomenally powerful animation tool, but few people know how to unlock its potential. Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation gives you the keys to all of that power.

It covers the basics of animation—that is, Silverlight's storyboards and animations, which are used to provide interactivity to Silverlight applications. You'll take an in-depth look at double, point, and color animations. You'll also learn the difference between linear, spline, and discrete keyframes, and how they affect your objects as they move.

But it doesn't stop there. You'll go well beyond those simple timeline-based animations and learn how to create purely code-based animations. You'll use vectors to make objects move and bounce off boundaries and each other. You'll explore particle systems, kinematics, and collisions. You'll also learn how to use trigonometry to animate objects and simulate 3D motion in a 2D environment. The essential trigonometry required to create complex motion is simplified and explained through a series of fascinating and fun examples that can be incorporated into your own applications, games, and experiments.

Whether you're already familiar with Silverlight and you want to learn how to open it up, a Flash developer interested in expanding your skill set, or a web developer looking to take the next step into rich interactive application development, this book will bring you up to speed on Silverlight 2 and show you what it can do. From techniques for creating frame-based animations to learning how to simulate 3D in a 2D environment, there is something here to satisfy anyone's appetite for animation and interactivity.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
Break free from the timeline and animate objects using code
Add interactivity between objects through collision detection and reaction
Implement forward and inverse kinematic chains to create lifelike motion
Build particle systems and apply gravity to particles to create fountains and explosions
Implement a virtual reality object viewer for simulating 3D objects

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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. With an entire section devoted to each design principle, Designing Web Interfaces helps you:
Make It Direct-Edit content in context with design patterns for In Page Editing, Drag&Drop, and Direct Selection
Keep It Lightweight-Reduce the effort required to interact with a site by using In Context Tools to leave a "light footprint"
Stay on the Page-Keep visitors on a page with overlays, inlays, dynamic content, and in-page flow patterns
Provide an Invitation-Help visitors discover site features with invitations that cue them to the next level of interaction
Use Transitions-Learn when, why, and how to use animations, cinematic effects, and other transitions
React Immediately-Provide a rich experience by using lively responses such as Live Search, Live Suggest, Live Previews, and more

Designing Web Interfaces illustrates many patterns with examples from working websites. If you need to build or renovate a website to be truly interactive, this book gives you the principles for success.

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Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8: Visual QuickProject Guide

You may not be a professional Web designer, but you do want to design a decent Web page. There's no place better to start than with the de facto tool of choice for just about anybody creating Web pages and this slim, low priced guide to it! The same things that have made Dreamweaver so popular with the pros an easy-to-use, no-nonsense interface and a slew of features and utilities also make it the perfect tool for your purposes. This full guide provides the quickest route to creating a fun and functional Web page with it. Each short chapter uses big, bold screen shots and step-by-step instructions to illuminate one aspect of the process. By the end of the volume, you will have created a simple Web site, filled it with text and graphics, added navigation and links, and tested and posted the final product. Timely tips and occasional sidebars detailing good design practices round out the package.

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Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:
Know when and how to use LINQ to JSON, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to Objects
Learn how Silverlight 2 applications bind, pass, read, save, query and present data
Discover how your application can call web services to work with SOAP, REST, RSS, AtomPub, POX and JSON Design REST, ASMX, and WCF web services that communicate with Silverlight 2
Harness RESTful web services such as Digg, Amazon and Twitter
Retrieve and save data using the new Entity Framework and WCF
Work with RESTful ADO.NET Data Services and its Silverlight client library to move data between your Silverlight application and database
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 offers many tips and tricks for building data-rich business applications, and covers the scenarios you're most likely to encounter. Complete examples in C# and VB can be downloaded from the books companion website.

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Data Mining for Retail Website Design and Enhanced Marketing

Data mining is considered as one of the most powerful technologies that participates greatly in helping companies in any industry to focus on the most important information in their data warehouses. In this book, we developed a new approach that measures the effectiveness of data mining in helping retail websites designers to improve the structure of their websites during the design phase. This approach overcomes web usage mining drawbacks, improves the website design structure, and reduces maintenance efforts needed in the future.We studied the behavior of items with respect to time. We showed how association rule mining can be invested to improve the process of decision making in a retail business through exploring current and previous product buying behavior and predicting and controlling future trends and behaviors. Based on our idea that interesting frequent itemsets are mainly covered by many recent transactions, a new method to mine for interesting frequent itemsets is introduced. Finally, we introduced the TARtool which is a temporal dataset generator and an association rule miner.

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Web Security Testing Cookbook: Systematic Techniques to Find Problems Fast

Among the tests you perform on web applications, security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it's often the most neglected. The recipes in the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate how developers and testers can check for the most common web security issues, while conducting unit tests, regression tests, or exploratory tests. Unlike ad hoc security assessments, these recipes are repeatable, concise, and systematic-perfect for integrating into your regular test suite. Recipes cover the basics from observing messages between clients and servers to multi-phase tests that script the login and execution of web application features. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build tests pinpointed at Ajax functions, as well as large multi-step tests for the usual suspects: cross-site scripting and injection attacks. This book helps you: Obtain, install, and configure useful-and free-security testing tools Understand how your application communicates with users, so you can better simulate attacks in your tests Choose from many different methods that simulate common attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and manipulating hidden form fields Make your tests repeatable by using the scripts and examples in the recipes as starting points for automated tests

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Web Application Design Patterns

Ever notice that-in spite of their pervasiveness-designing web applications is still challenging? While their benefits motivate their creation, there are no well-established guidelines for design. This often results in inconsistent behaviors and appearances, even among web applications created by the same company.
Design patterns for web applications, similar in concept to those for web sites and software design, offer an effective solution. In Web Application Design Patterns, Pawan Vora documents design patterns for web applications by not only identifying design solutions for user interaction problems, but also by examining the rationale for their effectiveness, and by presenting how they should be applied.
. Design interfaces faster, with a better rationale for the solutions you choose.
. Learn from over more than100 patterns, with extensive annotation on use and extension.
. Take a short-cut into understanding the industry with more than 500 full-color screenshots and a web site for help, discussion, and a collection of additional patterns.

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The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

* Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity, but designing them can be difficult and time consuming. This book walks developers through the basics of good interface design, using real-world examples from systems that are proven successes.
* Galitz is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and instructor with many years of experience with information systems and user interface design.
* Written especially for developers who may be designing user interfaces for the first time, but also extremely useful for any developer involved in GUI or Web site design.
* Revised to reflect the profound enhancements in interface design, specifically how Web page design has revolutionized interface design.
* New information covers a variety of platforms, both traditional and Web-based.

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Web Analytics For Dummies

Web Analytics For Dummies - Pedro Sostre, Jennifer LeClaire
ISBN: 0470098244 | April 30, 2007 | 384 pages | 6.27 Mb

Performing your first Web site analysis just got a whole lot easier. Web Analytics For Dummies offers everything you need to know to nail down and pump up the ROI on your Web presence. It explains how to get the stats you need, then helps you analyze and apply that information to improve traffic and click-through rate on your Web site. You’ll discover:

* What to expect from Web analytics
* Definitions of key Web analytics terms
* Help in choosing the right analytics approach
* How to collect key data and apply it to site design or marketing
* Techniques for distinguishing human users from bots
* Tips on using Google and other free analytics tools
* Advice on choosing pay and subscription services

A detailed and accurate analysis is crucial the success of your Web site. Web Analytics For Dummies helps you get it right the first time—and every time.

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Paul Reinheimer - Professional Web APIs with PHP: eBay, Google, Paypal, Amazon, FedEx plus Web Feeds

Paul Reinheimer - Professional Web APIs with PHP: eBay, Google, Paypal, Amazon, FedEx plus Web Feeds
Wrox | 2006 | ISBN: 0764589547 | Pages: 384 | CHM | 3.64 MB

As the only book that details how to integrate different APIs and web feeds in PHP so websites can leverage content from eBay, Google, PayPal, Amazon, and FedEx, this hands-on guide takes you step by step through each stage of the API process. Experienced PHP programmer Paul Michael Reinheimer walks you through the production and consumption angles of web feeds and discusses XML-feeds so that you can access one of the fastest growing trends on the web. With real-world examples covering everything from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites, you'll learn how to produce and document your own APIs, which will allow you to expand your sites and may even prompt you to re-examine how you structure your code.

What you will learn from this book

* How to add a third party API to your site or program one of your own
* Ways that a small ISP can use the Yahoo!® XML feed to publish recent technology on a site
* Why APIs are the preferred method for disparate applications to interact over the web
* Differences between the functions of APIs and web feeds and the benefits each has to offer
* The basic structure for REST and SOAP APIs

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers who have a strong understanding of PHP and are looking for detailed coverage of multiple APIs in PHP.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques

Wilbert O. Galitz, "The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques"
Wiley | 2007 | ISBN: 0470053429 | 857 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB

An effective software interface can improve user productivity and satisfaction and reduce errors. But designing effective UIs demands unflinching attention to detail--plus the willingness to apply techniques that may at times contradict your common sense and intuition. The Essential Guide to User Interface Design offers page after page of detailed prescriptions for designing interfaces that work. Goldsmith's scope is comprehensive: He lays out a 12-step approach to UI design that covers everything from how to organize dialog boxes in ways that exploit users' natural patterns of eye movement, to choosing colors effectively, to picking precisely the right words for error messages. The guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to build software that really works. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Alan M. Schlein, "Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research

Alan M. Schlein, "Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research (4th Edition)"
Facts on Demand Press | 4th Edition | 2004 | ISBN: 1889150452 | 574 pages | siPDF | 13.2 MB

Sharpen Your Online Research Skills!

Find it Online 4th ed. is your field guide that helps you zoom past "meaningless hits" to find what you’re looking for... quickly and easily. This comprehensive reference details more than 2,000 reliable Web resources, and also provides the strategies and mechanics to move you up to the next level in your online research capabilities.

With Find it Online as your desktop companion you’ll be able to:
Utilize a myriad of government sites, public record sites, news sources and business intelligence sites.
Effectively frame your search strategies.
Discover new tools to tap into the "invisible web".
Examine effective managing and filtering techniques.
Verify the information you find.
Discover search tips from over 20 industry experts.
Find it Online answers these questions and more:
How can you discover who is linked to your Web site... or your competition?
How can you investigate the origin of an offensive email?
How can you eliminate annoying pop up ads?
What are the top 10 tips for combating spam?
Where can you search 16 phone directories... all at one time?
Where can you access white pages, government/business listings and phone books for more than 150 countries?
Where can you find a Web site that offers translation capabilities in up to 25 different languages?
Who are the best private online sources for public records?
How can you background a company online?
What are the best tools for managing and filtering online information?
From Library Journal
Since its first publication in 1994, this guide has been an essential tool for journalists, researchers, lawyers, professors, librarians, business executives, and students. The new edition has been updated by award-winning journalist Schlein to include tips and search strategies from 20 information industry experts.

In the introduction, Schlein states that he aimed to make the work "considerably more global in focus," and in fact the title does not do it justice. This is more than an annotated list of thousands of web sites—it is a coaching tool that shows readers how to do comprehensive and reliable research in hundreds of disciplines, regardless of information container. Schlein explains when a particular set of data is best found on a free or fee-based web site. When no digital source exists, he refers readers to the "best" container, whether it is a print resource or a person.

Unfortunately, this book does not explain where to find information about P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing systems such as KaZaA, so information about music research is scarce. Online music resources are better discussed in Chris Sherman and Gary Price's The Invisible Web.

Another weakness is the lack of an accurate well-crafted index. Instead, the index functions as a keyword list and not a topic guide (e.g., "separated by adoption" and "minor traffic violations" are main entries and are not cross-referenced under their respective subjects). These faults aside, this work is still well recommended for all libraries because of its comprehensiveness; other similar works, like Reva Basch's now dated Researching Online for Dummies, are targeted to newbies and specific audiences.

Contents
Foreward
Creative Uses of the Internet
The Basics – Internet Terminology and Concepts
Framing Your Search Strategy
General Search Tools – Search Engines and More
Specialized Tools
Government Resources – U.S. and International
Public Records – The Information Trail
News Resources Online
Business Tools – Business Resources
International Research
Managing and Filtering Information
Evaluating Accuracy, Credibility, and Authority
Search Strategies and Sample Searches
Privacy & Protection Online
Indices – Online Vendors
Contributors
Glossary – Terms and Definitions
Index.

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Web Design for Teens

Web Design for Teens
Course Technology PTR; 1 edition | 1592006078 | 304 pages | December 1, 2004 | PDF | 7 Mb

Your Web site is a way to communicate who you are to the world-your style, your interests, your voice. "Web Design for Teens" gives you the skills you need to create your first Web site. You don't need any coding experience to begin. You'll cover everything from how to write the code to how to create a cool design. Begin by learning HTML as you move from the basics to advanced coding topics. Then it's on to design as you conquer the fine points of color and navigation systems. Wrap things up as you learn how to put your Web site online, advertise it, and attract visitors.

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Beginning Dynamic Websites: with ASP.NET Web Matrix

Beginning Dynamic Websites: with ASP.NET Web Matrix
576 pages | Wrox; Bk&CD-Rom edition (February 2003) | English | 0764543741 | 31.2 MB

With this book and Web Matrix, you'll be developing your own powerful ASP.NET websites in no time.
You'll start at the beginning, learning how to create graphical web pages in Web Matrix. Then you'll use Visual Basic .NET and databases to add the dynamic features usually seen in expensive commercial websites. You'll finish by looking at some of the expert ASP.NET features — writing our own controls and web services.
Even if you've never programmed before, this book will take you right into the world of professional web development. You'll be amazed at how easy it is and how much you can do.

With this book, you will learn how to

* Go further than just static HTML websites, by using a programming language. We will get you building real dynamic websites right from the beginning
* Change the content of your pages quickly and easily by using databases. With this book, you'll learn how databases work, and how to make the most of them.
* Add interactivity to your website by creating your very own guest book, and allow people to leave message with emoticons.
* Create content you can distribute to other websites, and learn how to automatically update it all over the Web in one go!

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Professional ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques

"Professional ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques" by Alex Homer
Publisher: Wrox Press Ltd | 10 Nov 2002 | ISBN: 1861007868 | PDF | 18.06 Mb | 570 Pages

This book examines the possibilities for developing user interfaces that are driven by ASP.NET. It discusses and explores a range of techniques and approaches predominantly for creating Web sites and Web pages that are:

Intuitive and easy to use
Attractive and full-featured
Interactive where this is appropriate
Based (loosely) on a real-world scenario
Designed according to a predefined set of requirements
Fun, memorable, and provide user satisfaction

The pages we build are, for the most part, elements of an overall application that - while being somewhat optimistic as regards consumer buying patterns - does form the basis for the kind of Web site/application that is becoming one of the basic ingredients of the World Wide Web today. We'll be building a site that allows the user to choose, customize and purchase a new car or truck from the world-famous "Wrox Car Company"

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Internet Programming with OmniMark

Internet Programming with OmniMark by Mark Baker
Product Details 2002 | 412 pages | ISBN: 0792372379 ; 0306469898 | PDF | 3.1 MB

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Questions To Ask Your Web Designer

Questions To Ask Your Web Designer
Publisher: Garland Coulson | ISBN: N\A | edition 2005 | PDF | 15 pages | 1,49 mb

Many web designers have a design and programming background, and are not trained or experienced in Internet marketing. In this FREE e-book, Garland Coulson, “The E-Business Tutor” will show you what questions to ask when choosing or working with a web designer to ensure that your web site will sell, not just look pretty.

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Build Your Own Web Site

David Karlins, "Build Your Own Web Site"
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media 2003 | ISBN-10: 0072229535 | 154 Pages | PDF | 56,3 MB

Stop dreaming and start building that Web site! This one-stop resource demystifies the process, showing you step-by-step how to plan for, construct, and publish your own Web site. Connect to a remote server, get a domain name, and gather content. Then, construct pages using a variety of tools. Learn to use pictures and graphics, format text, create links and animation, take advantage of interactivity, and input forms. Build Your Own Web Site is a complete and illustrated step-by-step guide to the skills, tools, and accessories you'll need to produce professional-level Web sites in no time.
Establish a domain name and secure server space
Determine which Web site building tools work best for your needs
Use Dreamweaver, FrontPage, GeoCities, and other Web site authoring tools
Prepare text and photos for the Web
Create graphics, animation, sound, and other exciting Web features
Enhance your site with interactive search boxes and input forms
Use link-testing tools, hit counters, and online mail list managers
Increase traffic by working with search engines

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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

Jonathan Swift, Salvador Alvarez Patuel, Chris Barker, Dan Wahlin, "Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers"
Wrox | 2009 | ISBN: 0470277750 | 672 pages | PDF | 7,9 MB

Our overarching goal in writing this book was to give ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create visually stunning Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. Silverlight gives you everything you need to do just this, and in serious style!

As well as taking you through each feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will make sure you’re able to debug, troubleshoot, and performance-tune your Silverlight applications, as well as seamlessly hook into your existing ASP.NET architecture and code base.

This book is aimed at .NET developers and architects who want to quickly get up to speed with all that Silverlight 2 has to offer.

As well as covering the breadth of features that Silverlight 2 provides, this book makes a point of demonstrating where necessary how the particular feature can be integrated tightly with the ASP.NET host application. An example is in Chapter 7, where the ASP.NET Profile service is utilized directly from within Silverlight to obtain user-specific data.

It’s fair to say that although this book is aimed at ASP.NET developers, it covers all of the salient features of Silverlight 2 to the degree that it’s a useful programming resource for developers not using ASP.NET also.

If you’re fresh to .NET development, however, you might want to check out a beginning .NET book first, to help you overcome the syntax and set-up queries when learning a new language. Otherwise, take a deep breath and dive in!

This book covers the full feature set of Silverlight 2, diving into each of the subject areas to give depth and breadth coverage. As well as teaching you about the component parts of the Silverlight API, the book also covers debugging, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning your Silverlight applications, arming you with all the skills and knowledge you’ll need to create advanced Silverlight-based applications in record time.

Importantly, this book covers the integration points between ASP.NET and Silverlight, taking you through the different techniques you can use to seamlessly augment your existing or new ASP.NET web sites with the power of Silverlight.

If you want to program in Silverlight and potentially use ASP.NET as the host, then this book covers it all.

The book is split into two distinct parts. Part I is titled “Silverlight Fundamentals for ASP.NET Developers,” and Part II is titled “Developing ASP.NET Applications with Silverlight.” Part I is intended to give you grounding in what Silverlight is as a technology and how it fits into the Web-based landscape. The component pieces of a Silverlight application are also laid out at a high level, and any knowledge required before putting an application together is explained.

Part II is written to give you depth of knowledge across the Silverlight feature-set and show you how to leverage the power of both Silverlight and ASP.NET to create compelling applications.

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