Windows developer power tools

Software developers need to work harder and harder to bring value to their development process in order to build high quality applications and remain competitive. Developers can accomplish this by improving their productivity, quickly solving problems, and writing better code. A wealth of open source and free software tools are available for developers who want to improve the way they create, build, deploy, and use software. Tools, components, and frameworks exist to help developers at every point in the development process. Windows Developer Power Tools offe.

Includes index.

Table of Contents; Foreword; Credits; About the Authors; Contributors; Preface; Why a Book About Tools?; Why a Book About Freeware and Open Source Tools?; But Doesn't Visual Studio Team System Handle All This?; About Open Source Licenses; About This Book; Audience; Assumptions This Book Makes; Contents of This Book; Part I: Writing Code; Part II: Checking Code; Part III: Running a Development Project; Part IV: Troubleshooting Code and Applications; Part V: Code Tools; Part VI: Working with Databases; Part VII: Miscellaneous; Part VIII: Appendix; The Book's Companion Web Site

Conventions Used in This BookUsing Code Examples; Comments and Questions; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; From the Authors; From James Avery; From Jim Holmes; Part I; Building ASP.NET Applications; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Building Sophisticated Ajax Applications with ASP.NET Atlas; Getting Started; Using Atlas; Rendering partial page updates; Optimizing partial page updates; Fetching data from web services; Working with the client-side component model; Getting Support; 1.2 Adding Ajax Functionality with Anthem.NET; Getting Started; Using Anthem.NET; Getting Support

1.3 Adding Ajax Functionality with Ajax.NET…