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Even though Silverlight2 is still in it's infancy, can anyone recommend a book to get started with? One that has more of a developer focus than a designer one?
I have this one pre-ordered: "Programming Silverlight 2"
by Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer. The authors are both employed by Microsoft working on Silverlight 2, and their blogs are great, so I expect the book (to be released after RTM) to be up to date.
I have seen some of the work done by Laurent... wait for his book
(source: galasoft.ch)
Sams Silverlight 2 Unleashed
I'm currently working my way through Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2, so far so good.
It's a typical Microsoft book serving up the koolaid, but gives a good introduction. I saw the guy speak at one of the local .NET User Groups in the Metro Detroit area and was impressed.
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I've started reading Silverlight 2 in Action which seems pretty ok. One good thing is that because they have an early access program, you can get most of the book as an electronic copy already now. Even though the full book is not due to be released until sometime in October.
A lot of the books available are simply a rehash of the help files. Your best bet would be to start at silverlight.net and read the Help files that get installed with the SDK. Then when Jesse Liberty's book is released read that.
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As the title says, I am looking for a good library for the C Programming Language.
The GUI library should be really popular. I'd also appreciate if there are popular forums on the Internet where I can ask professionals for help. And I definitively need a good book about the library. If it's possible it should be cross-platform but I can live without that... I guess ;)
The only library I know for C so far is GTK. It sounded really well to me but neither did I find any good book (I've actually seen only one book about GTK and I don't know if it's good or bad cause nobody posted a review) nor did I see anyone using it except 2 guys on You-tube with their impressing amount of 2 videos! >.< .
The really important thing for me is that it should be popular... I don't want to sit here, learn how to use this library and in a year or two nobody uses it any more.
I hope you guys can help me finding a library :)
GTK+ is hugely popular and is used extensively. It's the best choice if you want cross-platform GUI development in C alone. There are plenty of books around, though they're a bit outdated (but most of it still applies). You can find up to date tutorials and full API documentation at the GNOME project website.
GTK is the most popular GUI library in C you can find.
Have you tried amazon? There're plenty of books. It's hard to believe that all of them are bad.
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I am developing a windows phone 7 app which will need some basic database functionality. I came across the following projects on codeplex. Has anyone tried any of these projects and can help me decide to choose one, please?
http://rapidrepository.codeplex.com/
http://winphone7db.codeplex.com/
Pratik
We use SQLite since you can design the database ahead of time using standard SQL commands. It works pretty well on the phone.
I've written a quick start guide here: http://wirebear.com/blog/2010/11/12/using-sqlite-in-your-wp7-app
UPDATE:
This was a valid solution pre-Mango but it is NOT what I would recommend now and it is not what we are doing. With Mango Microsoft has given new ways to use SQL CE with LINQ to SQL and is the better way to have a database in your app. A good guide to getting started can be found here: http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/2011/11/30/31-days-of-mango-day-30-local-database/
There also are other databases available for the phone (see Local Sql database support for Windows phone 7).
What's best for you will depend on your requirements:
Do you need anything in particular? transactions? relations or objects?
What's most important? reliability, performance, etc.?
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I'm a BIG blog reader. I can't stop reading blogs. Blogs helped me find this site (in particular Jeff's blog). However I've come to realize that all the blogs I read deal with one language.
Coding Horror
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
Jon Skeet's Blog
Scott Hanselman's Blog
Did you guess the language?
Well now I'm learning C and using GTK (The Gimp Tool Kit). I can't really find any bloggers who actually blog about C like Jeff, Eric, Jon, or Scott do about C#. I need the blogger to be active, and it'll help if he has a sense of humor.
I think that the C equivalent of a blog is called a book. Step away from the internet browser :-)
I go back to the 90s with C. I'll write more if people will read.
That thing about books was explained to by a friend (jacox): "You can't grep a dead tree."
You may want to keep an eye on this fellow named "Jibz" who recently started up:
http://www.hardtoc.com/
C is not as hip as C# and friends. You will not find many blogs about it.
The only blog I can think of where I got some relevant C info is, There Is NO Box.
I'm really sorry, but I've made the same search, and the result of my search was sad but expected. C# is a hot topic these days in development circles compared to C [*].
I'd love to be proven wrong, but there is simply nothing in the C world equivalent to the blogs you've mentioned.
[*] I am not criticizing C, It has been my bread and butter for the last 3.5 years, just stating the reality
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I am very new to WPF and I am interested in learning it. I have gone through some tutorials, but I am looking for a website or book containing projects/assignments along with solutions so that you can code and learn. As I work through a project, I'd like to be able to refer to a solution in case I get stuck somewhere.
Can someone please share any links/material if you have which can give me some WPF Projects/assignments to work on along with solution.
Thanks.
I would search StackOverflow ... as there is already a lot of good stuff on this topic.
In particular, check out: WPF Sample Applications
But here are some additional links to get you started in WPF:
What are the best resources for learning WPF?
What did you find hardest to understand when learning WPF?
How to begin WPF development?
What WPF books would you recommend?
What applications could I study to understand DataModel-View-ViewModel?
Good luck!
I found http://www.drwpf.com/blog/ very helpful.
I think nobody has referred to the WPF Boot camp, it's 3 days free training by the experts and it was really helpful.
If you want to directly download all videos try this
You should take a look at MVVM pattern: NDC2009 MVVM talk is really good.
I've read a few WPF books. This one has been my favorite:
Pro WPF in C# 2008
I would also recommend this one:
WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008
Sounds like you are looking for some hands-on labs. Check these out:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=05755a9d-98fa-4f16-bfdc-023e3fd34763&displaylang=en
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Closed 11 years ago.
I am referring to a truly visual environment, and not something that claims to be visual but requires mountains of hand-coded script, or a code generator that farts out a Web site and leaves you to start editing in Visual Studio. Are there any truly visual Web dev platforms out there?
You might try FrontPage or something, but you would probably be better served becoming more comfortable with the code, or hiring a web developer to do it for you.
Clarion products from Softvelocity are great round trip code generators. They have tools for ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET. I have only used their win32 tools with great results. Their tools are a bit pricey but well worth them in the long run.
You might try an online forms-building service, such as Wufoo.
You might want to try something like Microsoft Expression Studio which for its capabilities seems to also be somewhat lightweight. I have the Web 2 edition installed and it works rather well.
As Servio said above (can't Vote Up or Comment yet), but with some more info.
Clarion 6 + Nettalk provides template-driven rapid application development. You can create browse/form web systems very quickly.
I'm the Clarion Evangelist (Clarion Folk), so take this with a grain of salt.
Have just realised there are no decent videos up showing Clarion 6 + Nettalk. Will remedy that shortly.
Cheers