Microsoft .NET Framework introduces a platform that opens many possibilities, providing a managed platform for executing applications that are portable, scalable and robust.

Leverage the new and enhanced features of Entity Framework 4.0 to design and implement scalable applications.

The integrated static code analysis tool an help you find and correct bugs in your software development.

Nmock is a unique way to test complex business objects in your development environment.

Learn how to add sophisticated area effects to your images such as blurring, embossing, and drop shadows in C# or Visual Basic.

This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important system namespaces and gives more detailed examples that demonstrate regular expressions, XML, cryptography, reflection, threading, parallel programming, and Direct3D.

Moonlight 2.0 is a Silverlight 2.0-compatible framework that supports Zoom, Control Framework, Layout Framework, and other technologies.

WPF data templates let you determine the pieces a repetitive control uses to display its items. Learn some unique and interesting ways to use data templates for displaying the items in ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListViews.

Mixing .NET and Java technologies with web services is often easy, but for many tasks web services are not the solution for Java/.NET interoperability.

WPF's properties and styles let you change a control's appearance. Templates let you modify a control at a much more fundamental level, changing the components that make up the control and the way it acts. This article shows how you can use templates to change the fundamental structure of WPF controls.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has a very flexible infrastructure that lets you extend the out-of-the-box behavior to meet ever-changing organizational business needs.

When the built-in WCF encoders don't meet your needs, follow this example to create a custom encoder—and just plug it in!

Enhanced COM interop through C# 4.0's dynamic type system, support for named and optional parameters, and for variance makes working with Microsoft Office and other Primary Interop Assemblies much easier.

To build a domain specific language, you need a quick and effective prototyping process that can parse your language syntax and perform semantic checking.

WPF's transformations make it easy to move, scale, or rotate objects, and simplify building complex moveable 3D shapes.

To build realism into 3D scenes, you need to draw with the appropriate materialsand transformations help make the drawing process much simpler.

Flexible software systems require a foundation that supplies the basic system services that's easy for developers to use, yet powerful enough to support complex and flexible systemsin other words, a framework.

WPF makes drawing three-dimensional scenes quick and easy.

Building WCF services declaratively in XAML lets you integrate services with workflows and provides flexibility that identical services implemented in code cannot.

One of your first steps to serious .NET development should be creating and implementing flexible typed datasets to maintain control and protect the validity of your data.