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There's tremendous interest in building applications with Silverlight 2, but very little material demonstrating how to build data-driven solutions with the platform This comprehensive tutorial teaches developers how to build data-rich applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data, including how to implement "in-the-cloud" data access options.

Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 offers valuable information on data binding controls, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and WCF interfaces, cross-domain data, as well as Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Servicesand the ADO.NET Entity Framework. With this book, you will:

• Learn how Silverlight 2 applications rely on data for binding, passing, reading, saving, querying, and presentation
• Discover how your application can call REST, web services, RSS, and HTTP services
• Design entities that can be passed to and from a Silverlight 2 application via WCF
• Apply data persistence techniques to Silverlight 2 applications
• Harness the power of RESTful web services such as Amazon and Twitter
• Learn how and when to use LINQ to SQL to query a data store
• Retrieve and save data, using the new Entity Framework and WCF
• Work with the RESTful ADO.NET Data Services to move data between your application and a database
• Learn how to build RESTful services and communicate with them from Silverlight 2

And more. Written by data access expert and MSDN Magazine columnist John Papa, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the Silverlight data access topics you need to know, including the real-world scenarios you're most likely to encounter.

Examples will be available on the book's website at www.silverlight2data.com..
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African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5 million more on probation or parole or who have previously been on probation or parole. Black males make up the majority of the total prison population, and due to either present or past incarceration is the most socially disenfranchised group of american citizens in the country today. This book, which was penned by Boothe while he was still incarcerated, details the author's personal story of a negligent upbringing in an impoverished community, his subsequent engagement in criminal activity (drug dealing), his incarceration, and his release from prison and experiencing of the crippling social disenfranchisement that comes with being an ex-felon. The author then relates his personal experiences and realizations to the seminal problems within the African-American community, federal government, and criminal justice system that cause his own experiences to be the same experiences of millions of other young black men..
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Protect Your Property—Before It’s Too Late

 

Real estate investors take risks. Homeowners, tenants, and even passers-by can sue investors like you, no matter what type of property you own. And if you’re not careful, you could lose more than the property involved in a lawsuit—even your other real estate assets. In our sue-happy society, protecting your assets and investments isn’t just a wise business decision—it’s imperative.

 

In The Real Estate Investor’s Guide to Corporations, LLCs, and Asset Protection Entities, attorney Richard Williamson explains how separating your investments into business entities can help prevent and limit costly lawsuits. Williamson provides investors with the pros and cons of each type of asset protection strategy and demonstrates how to create and maintain them.

 

Features:

· A detailed look at liability flow and how entities can protect you

· Complete guides to many different types of asset protection entities including LLCs, partnerships, and trusts

· Overview and advantages of the new series LLC for protection of multiple properties.
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Creating Magickal Entities is a comprehensive reference manual that presents step-by-step instructions for creating entities through astral manipulation that will change your life. This manual, written by three practicing occultists, reveals magickal and alchemical methods, many which have been lost and suppressed through the ages, in a refreshingly modern way that magickal practitioners of any tradition can understand..
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Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities, 14e presents complete, accurate, and up-to-date coverage of all facets of accounting for governmental and not-for-profit organizations. With its unique City of Smithville computerized cumulative problem, Wilson offers a level of student engagement and real-world applicability unmatched by any other textbook...
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"In the new age of philanthropy, donors expect charities to be models of accountability and transparency ..Internal controls: Guidance for Private, Government, and Nonprofit Entities is a must read for CEOs and CFOs who want to gain a clear understanding of cost-effective ways to implement the controls necessary to protect their organizations." - Elizabeth Myatt, Chief Executive Officer, World Lung Foundation

"If you were looking for the silver bullet to understand and audit internal controls, you just found it. This book will prove invaluable in planning the audit internal controls, you just found it. This book will prove invaluable in planning the audit because it specifically covers COSO and the new AICPA risk assessment auditing standards. " - George I. Victor, CPA, Partner in Charge of Quality Control, Holtz Rubenstein Reminick LLP

"Author Lyn Graham gives practical, easy-to-understand guidance for documenting internal controls. I recommend this book for both my clients and our staff. It is very useful for auditors and clients alike." - David E. Adams, CPA, Partner, Geffen Mesher & Company

"This book is an essential guide...and provides very practical advice about what to do(and what not to do) in making an investment in internal controls. The author's expensive experience as an audit firm partner and standard-setter are evident in the details provided. I also recommend this book to teaches of auditing and systems, as it provides a useful background to...how internal controls really should work in today's business environment." - Jean C. Bedard, CPA, PhD, Timothy B. Harbert Professor of Accountancy, Bentley College.
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Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft's new core framework for modeling and accessing data in .NET applications. This book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Framework, and explains its use in a variety of applications, but also provides a deep dive into its architecture and APIs. From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, Programming Entity Framework covers it all.

Written by Julia Lerman, the leading independent authority on the framework, Programming Entity Framework includes scores of reusable examples written in both Visual Basic and C# that you can implement right away. With this book, you will:

• Understand the core concepts you need to make best use of the Entity Framework (EF) in your applications
• Learn to query your data, using either LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL
• Create Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications
• Build ASMX web services, and WCF services
• Use Object Services to work directly with your entity objects
• Delve into model customization, relationship management, change tracking, data concurrency, and more

Presented in a clear narrative style that reflects the hundreds of hours the author has spent consulting, teaching, and writing about this new data access model and testing its myriad features, Programming Entity Framework will help you master the technology and put it to work..
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An entertaining, practical, reader-friendly guide to common plants, animals, and the physical environment of the NC/SC coast. Fully illustrated -- over 100 color photographs, plus additional diagrams and drawings with in-depth information on each subject. A beachcomber's handbook, a valuable companion for seaside explorers of all ages. Scientifically accurate, yet written in language the lay public can understand..
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