The early walkthroughs, which demonstrate the use of the Entity Framework in a variety of applications (Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, ASP.NET, WCF services, and WCF Data Services), are written so that you can follow them even if you have never created a particular application type before. The goal of this book is to help developers not only get up and running with the Entity F…
Oh no! Not another programming language! Do I have to learn yet another one? Aren’t there enough already? I can understand your reaction. There are loads of programming languages, so why should you learn another? Here are five reasons why you should learn Erlang: • You want to write programs that run faster when you run them on a multicore computer. • You want to write fault-tolerant …
So what actually is F#? In a nutshell, F# is a multi-paradigm programming language built on .NET, meaning that it supports several different styles of programming natively. I’ll spare you the history of the language and instead just go over the big bullets: • F# supports imperative programming. In F# you can modify the contents of memory, read and write files, send data over the network, an…
So what actually is F#? In a nutshell, F# is a multiparadigm programming language built on .NET, meaning that it supports several different styles of programming natively. I’ll spare you the history of the language and instead just go over the big bullets: • F# supports functional programming, which is a style of programming that em- phasizes what a program should do, not explicitly how the…
Few entrepreneurs succeed in raising Angel or Venture Capital f i n a n c e . M a n y b u s i n e s s o w n e r s d o n ’ t b o t h e r t o a p p l y knowing that they won’t be successful. Others simply don’t need it and have an operation capable of generating the free cash flow they need to grow their business. Only a very few are able to meet the requirements of the Angel or Ventur…
Flex is a collection of technologies that enables you to rapidly build applications deployed to Flash Player, a run time environment for delivering sophisticated user interfaces and interactivity. Flex leverages existing, matured technologies and standards such as XML, web services, HTTP, Flash Player, and ActionScript. Even though Flex allows you to create complete rich Internet applications, …