JavaFX Script makes it easy for developers to quickly develop high quality UI intensive applications very quickly. Developers would like to develop Rich Internet Applications/Rich client side user interfaces quickly and easily with this potential replacement for Ajax and, perhaps, even ActionScript and other scripting found in Flash.

This is the first book that provides a first look at JavaFX Script in its current emergent stage. It gives brief introduction to the JavaFX family of products, and quickly focuses on the JavaFX Script language.

After providing a “quick start” in which the reader downloads tools and creates a simple “Hello World” style program, the book proceeds to cover JavaFX Script concepts and constructs mainly in the context of progressively creating an application that creates “word search” puzzles.

The power of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is now available for client-side reporting in Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft has added Reporting Services to VS to supersede its Crystal Reports (a Business Objects product used in almost 40,000 companies worldwide) add-in for report development. This hands-on guide takes readers step by step through the design, development, and deployment of a variety of professional reports for Windows, Web, and Mobile clients. It is the most complete single source of information on this important new feature of Visual Studio 2005.

Written for all VS users writing any kind of report, Client-Side Reporting with VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 is the only book that tells the full story of client-side Reporting Services. Its real-world examples clearly and carefully teach how to use and exploit this powerful and incresingly popular technology.

A practical tutorial to using Microsoft AJAX to enhance the user experience of your ASP.NET web applications covering the most up to date versions of the AJAX tools. This book has been written for ASP.NET developers entering the world of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework, and for existing ASP.NET AJAX developers looking for a more detailed tutorial on the client-side of the framework: the Microsoft AJAX Library.