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This book provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik's range of ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. Telerik controls are invaluable for ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of rich controls targeted for the presentation layer of web applications. Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and text-editing controls that you need but don't want to build from scratch yourself--the options are endless for increasing the functionality of any of your web solutions. What you'll learn Understand how to integrate the standard Telerik controls into any ASP.NET or Silverlight solution to increase productivity and usability. Incorporate the Telerik extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Learn to implement Telerik Op...

Discussing new and existing features, SQL Server designer and administrator Michael Coles takes you on an expert guided tour of TransactSQL functionality in SQL Server 2008 in his book, Pro TSQL 2008 Programmers Guide. Fully functioning examples and downloadable source code bring Coles technically accurate and engaging treatment of TransactSQL into your own hands. Stepbystep explanations ensure clarity, and an advocacy of bestpractices will steer you down the road to success. Pro TSQL 2008 Programmers Guide is every developers key to making full use of SQL Server 2008s powerful, builtin TransactSQL language. TransactSQL is the language developers and DBAs use to interact with SQL Server. Its used for everything from querying data, to writing stored p...

The move from socalled heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, its picked up pace. The Spring Framework remains the leader in this move and provides a platform on which you can build your own applications and services. Pro Spring 2.5 covers the new features of Spring 2.5, but moreover, it is focused on the best practices and core standards of contemporary Spring development. As members of the Spring development team at Cake Solutions, the author team brings extensive practical experience gained from working with Spring since version 1.0 and delivering successful systems on top of it. Learn the ...

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plugin that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. Its a ruleschanging, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, its able to host true .NET applications in nonMicrosoft browsers (like Firefox) and on nonMicrosoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is stillevolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it. With fourcolor graphics and screenshots throughout, Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect reference: youll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, yo...

Many would argue that the single most important job of a SQL Server database administrator is to be able to recover your database in the event of loss or damage. Pro SQL Server Disaster Recovery helps you meet that goal by showing you how to think about and plan for potential problems. Youll learn to anticipate and reduce the likelihood of a disaster, and to mitigate the effects of a disaster when one does occur. Perhaps most importantly, youll learn how to prepare so that you can return a system to its normal state quickly, ensuring system availability and the continued success and operation of your business. Many SQL Server features and technologies are, or can be put to good use in disaster recovery planning. In this book, youll learn about powerf...