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Kerstin Gier
Sprawy Liv, młodej bohaterki serii Silver, układają się coraz lepiej. Nowy dom i nowa rodzina okazały się całkiem w porządku. Romantyczny związek z przystojnym i bystrym Henrym trwa. W dodatku nowe fascynujące możliwości odkrywa przed dziewczyną sfera snów. Niestety, Liv ma także powody do niepokoju. Po pierwsze, anonimowa blogerka Secrecy wie o Liv rzeczy, których nie powinna wiedzieć. Po drugie, Henry ma swoje tajemnice. Wiele tajemnic. Po trzecie, za drzwiami z klamką w kształcie jaszczurki czai się coś strasznego, mrocznego i złowrogiego Drugi tom bestsellerowej serii Kerstin Gier, autorki znanej z Trylogii Czasu.
Vibor Cipan (EUR)
Silverlight makes it much easier to build web applications with highly usable, interactive, and exciting user interfaces. However, with so many new options open to designers and developers, making the best use of the tools available is not always so easy. It's ease of use and rapid development process has left one area completely uncovered— how to design, build, and implement professional and usable interfaces, and create an enjoyable user experience and interaction.Written by a Microsoft MVP and Silverlight Prototyping Specialist, this book is the first and only book on developing Silverlight User Interfaces. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to build all the user interface elements that users look forward to in a cutting edge app. This book offers essential recipes, with each recipe depicting the commonly used user interface patterns built with Silverlight, and in some cases, with WPF to showcase the possibilities.The author's experience in designing and developing user interfaces enables him to share insights on creating professional interfaces in a clear and friendly way. The book starts off with recipes dealing with fixed and fluid layouts, building custom command link controls, working with navigation, and collapsible panels, and then moves on to the more advanced topics such as calendars, alternating row colors, and task panes. The author covers a number of different UI patterns, controls, and approaches accompanied by XAML and C# code where needed (and explained), along with usage context and practical, proven, and professional techniques for specific controls and patterns.From maps to task panes, and web cam support to pixel shaders, this Cookbook provides you with a rich selection of Silverlight UI recipes. It covers all that you need to know in order to design and implement a user interface, together with professional user experience and interface guidelines to make your solutions and applications pleasurable for your users.The author has found himself in the role of both, a designer and a developer, at different points in his professional career, and his motive was to create a book that will serve as a useful resource for designers and developers trying to find their way with Silverlight and Expression Blend.By the end of the book, you will be able to create a rich, professional, and standards-compliant user interface.
Paweł Maciejewski, Paweł Redmerski
Silverlight -- nowy sposób na tworzenie aplikacji internetowych Jak tworzyć aplikacje internetowe za pomocą Silverlight? Jakie możliwości kryją się w tej technologii? W jaki sposób połączyć różne elementy, by uzyskać wspaniały efekt? Technologia Silverlight, opracowana przez Microsoft, jest propozycją dla tych, którzy przymierzają się do projektowania aplikacji internetowych lub zajmują się tym już od jakiegoś czasu, a chcieliby poszerzyć spektrum swoich umiejętności. Do podstawowych zalet tej technologii należą prostota jej używania oraz ogromna elastyczność -- oprócz języka XAML, służącego do opisania interfejsu użytkownika, twórca aplikacji może posługiwać się dowolnym językiem programowania, dostępnym dla platformy .NET. Gotowe programy przygotowane w Silverlight są kompatybilne z większością przeglądarek, zainstalowanych na różnych platformach. Książka "Silverlight. Od podstaw" zawiera wszelkie informacje na temat najnowszej wersji tej technologii. Znajdziesz tu opis tego środowiska programistycznego, jego funkcjonalności oraz narzędzi, które musisz zainstalować, by móc sprawnie korzystać z Silverlight. Poznasz także zasady tworzenia nowych projektów i całą masę przykładów konkretnych rozwiązań. Wszystko to uzupełnione zostało licznymi zrzutami ekranu, ilustrującymi niemal każdy krok oraz efekty działania podanego kodu. Jeśli chcesz nauczyć się projektować aplikacje internetowe w Silverlight, nie znajdziesz lepszej książki! Zasady działania technologii Silverlight Silverlight a platforma .NET Programowanie w języku XAML Używanie kontrolek interfejsu Pozycjonowanie za pomocą kontenerów Wykorzystywanie grafiki Integracja z multimediami Obsługa zdarzeń Tworzenie animacji Stosowanie stylów i szablonów Otwórz się na nowe możliwości. Wypróbuj Silverlight!
Max Brand
Silvertip had meant to kill the cold-hearted Bandini, but it was a kid wearing Bandinis cape who came out the saloon door and met Silvertips bullet. Now, Silvertip has taken an oath to take care of the kids business first, then track down Bandini and put the sidewinder six feet under - for good. An urge for roaming and a chance meeting with the bandit Bandini put Silvertip on the trail that leads to Haverhill Valley, where he finds more action than he ever bargained for. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
Max Brand
Bill Gary was blinded by the agony of torn flesh. Red sparks of pain flared through him. He saw Frosty, his mouth dripping with blood, ready to spring again. Bill struck at the leaping form ... and missed. The wolfs teeth were at his throat! Bill Gary was dead. But this only encouraged the fortune seekers. For securely fastened around the killer wolfs neck was a collar containing the location of a vein of gold ... and it was still anybodys prize. This most vicious of timber wolves was now guardian and executor of his estate. And Silvertip, to carry out the dead mans wish, must find Frosty, the wolf.
Max Brand
No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. ""Silvertips Roundup"" is and Old Western tale of adventure told by Max Brand, one of Americas favorite Western writers. Brand tells the story of the legendary Arizona Jim ""Silvertip"" Silver, who shoots fast, stays cook, and brings to justice killers and thieves who make a habit of taking the law into their own hands. No criminal was safe from Silvertips brilliant mind and reckless courage. But now Silvertip met his match in Barry Christian, a dangerous and cunning renegade who recognized no laws but the ones he imposed on helpless men and women ...
Max Brand
Arizona Jim Silver had to find Rap Bender, Judge Benders missing son - the same Rap Bender who had joined guns with Silvers oldest and deadliest enemy. But when the legendary Silvertip finally caught up with Bender, they shared a common enemy - ever since Benders partner double-crossed him by trying to kidnap his woman. Now it was up to the two men to catch the man Silver had pledged to kill - for Silvers honor and his life. "Silver Tip" is a series of Western novels written by the very prolific author (one of the most prolific author of all time) named Frederick Faust. The novels are published, like most of Fausts work, under the Max Brand pen name.
Max Brand
In his last evil plan, the dying Steve Wycombe wills his land, stock, and cash to his three worst enemies, Morris Delgas, Harry Rutherford, and Jim Silver, with the knowledge that sooner or later there would be violence over the inheritance. He actually dictates his will while dying from being shot in the stomach. He makes them, one honest man and two crooked, run his ranch. He knows that it is only a matter of time before they come to blows, but that is exactly what he wants them to do to each other. One of many recommended Westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand.