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Closed 11 years ago.
Are there any good Expression Blend books out there yet? The help file is better than I'd expected it to be. But I'd really like to get ramped up faster.
I recommend you "Microsoft Expression Blend Bible" by Gurdy and Mary Leete. This book is definitely worth reading.
If you are looking for a book from the Designer's perspective, the best book out there currently is Foundation Expression Blend 2, by Victor Guadioso. It reminds me of the older PeachPit Press books for graphics programs. There is some code in the book, as well, but it is more tool focused.
Some related discussions on SO that might be of help:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/562948/do-you-have-any-recommendations-on-blend-xaml-books-tutorials-for-designers
What is the best way to learn Expressions Blend 2?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/625407/expression-blend-2-wpf-book
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Closed 9 years ago.
Is there any easy resource available online or a book which would allow a complete newbie how the database normalization process works and what one should do to perform the transformations on a given database leading it from 1NF to 5NF through all the in-between?
From my research, it seems that the Wikipedia article seems to be the closest to what I'm looking for but is there anything even easier?
This highly depends upon your taste. But I have found that the course in class2go offered by Stanford is quite good. It has a fairly good explanation of normalization up until NF4. For a complete newbie I think this would be quite useful.
You have to sign up but the material is supposed to be there:
http://class2go.stanford.edu/db/Winter2013
Also have you seen this?
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htm
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Closed 11 years ago.
With windows 8 demonstrating 'native HTML 5 apps'.
The first thing that I think of is whether WPF has a place in this HTML 5 world. It kind of seems like Silverlight will stick around but I must ask : Where does WPF fit into the bigger picture microsoft is painting ?
All that's been said is that this (and where Silverlight , XNA, and C++ fit in) will be announced at the BUILD conference in September. Lots of rumors and speculation, but no announcements.
It's too early to tell. Just because Microsoft demoed a particular feature doesn't mean it's dropping everything else.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Does anyone know of a good web-based GUI I could use for database design? It is going painfully slow in Photoshop.
You can use MySQL Workbench to do this. There are many web-based apps as well. http://wb.mysql.com/
Try this web-based designer
Just had occasion to use this earlier today: http://www.dbvis.com/
Java/uses JDBC drivers so widely compatible
Produces reasonably pretty relationship diagrams
The free version is still pretty capable, and the cost is eminently reasonable
EDIT: Ah, not web-based, but...somethings you really can't fit into that box very well.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I need to introduce basic design principles in my team. I am looking for books which are not restricted to only object oriented design principles. And which can cover concepts such as Modularity, Information hiding etc.
Just for information - The implementation language for all the project in our team is C.
These books seem to be in the vicinity of what you are asking about:
Code Complete
The Practice of Programming
The Pragmatic Programmer
If you're building on a Unix environment, I'd really recommend The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S Raymond.
The book
Object Thinking by David West is pretty good.
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Closed 9 years ago.
Does anyone know of a tool to take a T-SQL query and convert it into a LINQtoSQL query?
I'm sorry that I don't know of any tools to do this. If your problem is that you just don't know Linq well enough, you may want to consider this tool. It will help you learn Linq and it's free (but not open source).
Because of the way LINQ handles joins, that is a non-trivial problem. I actually tried in the past, but I just couldn't get the semantics right.
(Maybe I will try again using OSLO and MGrammar. Having a decent replacement for LEX and YACC will go a long way.)