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Looks at the features and functions of Windows Presentation Foundation, covering such topics as XAML, creating an application object, content controls, pages and navigation, commands, data binding, an
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The second edition of this tutorial on ASP.NET has been expanded to reflect changes in the 3.5 version of the software in VB 2008 for developing modern web applications. MacDonald, a web developer who
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