This article delves into the motivation, benefits, and challenges of writing applications using polyglot programming—leveraging the multi-language nature of the CLR to create simpler solutions to vexing problems.

There's more to any programming tool than just theory—and the TPL is no exception. Learn about the techniques Rod Stephens used and the problems he encountered in these parallelism case studies.

Targeted toward both developers and designers, readers will find this book invaluable for gaining the familiarity and skills needed to build Windows Presentation Foundation visuals using Microsoft Expression Blend.

Visual Basic 9 completely eliminates the barrier between the code you write and the XML you're trying to express. Creating, querying, and transforming XML is much more intuitive and productive than ever before.

Learn the ins and outs of REALbasic, an application development environment for creating native applications and utilities. Its cross-platform capability makes it easy to compile the applications and utilities you create on one platform and run them on another.

ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ provide the greatest amount of functionality yet for building data-aware web applications. Even if you prefer to write stored procedures, you can still leverage some of LINQ to SQL functionality for accessing stored procedures inside .NET.

Learn how to use parse trees to evaluate mathematical expressions, and how to use sorted trees.

This book is a thorough exploration of Visual Basic 2008's capabilities, written for developers by an expert developer. Chapter 34, excerpted here, covers printing with VB.NET, including graphics, charts, text, formatting to fit the page, and print previews.