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Packt are due to launch a new Enterprise brand, into which future Silverlight titles will be published. For more information on that launch, look here.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall:

* Create a WCF service and business object for receiving data
* Submitting data to the server

Packt are due to launch a new Enterprise brand, into which future Silverlight titles will be published. For more information on that launch, look here.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall create a form for allowing users to submit information.

Packt are due to launch a new Enterprise brand, into which future Silverlight titles will be published. For more information on that launch, look here.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall:

* Bind the data from a data object to Silverlight controls
* Validate data and display feedback to the user

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall create an interactive logo using Silverlight and incorporate it into the website.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall use control templates to enhance the look and feel of the navigation widget.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall understand Expression Blend and how to use it in conjunction with Visual Studio.

In this two-part article by Alfonso V. Romero, author of VirtualBox 3.1: Beginner's Guide, you shall:

* Create your first virtual machine in VirtualBox, using Ubuntu Linux
* Learn about your virtual machine's basic configuration
* Download and install Ubuntu Linux on your virtual machine
* Learn how to start and stop your virtual machine

In this article by Alfonso V. Romero, author of VirtualBox 3.1: Beginner's Guide, you will learn to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu Linux.

In this article by Frank LaVigne, author of Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, we shall create a navigation widget in Silverlight to add to the current website.

This article by Bart Kummel, author of Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development, discusses how we can extend ExtVal by creating our own custom validation strategy. This article is a follow up on Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator, an article by the same author that is an introduction to ExtVal.

This article by Shamsuddin Ahammad, author of iReport 3.7, covers configuring report properties

If we use the Report Wizard for generating reports, some default report properties (page size, margins, and so on) are set automatically. For our software or reports, we may need to modify the default report properties at times, so that it fulfills the user (or software) requirements.

In this article by Shamsuddin Ahammad, author of iReport 3.7, we will cover:

* Understanding bands
* Configuring and using report bands
* Maintaining the size, position, and alignment of the report elements
* Modifying report fonts
* Using the library
* Using borders
* Modifying element properties

NetBeans is a free, opensource Integrated Development Environment(IDE) for software developers. This IDE provides many good tools that are required to create professional, desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications using the Java language. We can also create reports in NetBeans, if the iReport plugin is installed. So far, we have created different types of reports with the iReport standalone version In this article by Shamsuddin Ahammad, author of iReport 3.7, we will learn about:

* Installing the iReport plugins in NetBeans
* Creating different types of reports inside the NetBeans IDE

In the article CMS Made Simple 1.6: Getting Started with an E-commerce Website, we covered Products module. In this article by Sofia Hauschildt, author of CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide, we will learn about a solution made of following modules:

* Cart
* SelfRegistration (optional)
* Orders
* PaypalGateway (optional)

This article by Sofia Hauschildt, author of CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide, covers the Products module which will be the heart of your e-commerce solution. This module is the place where products that you would like to sell in your shop are saved. Generally, it is possible to use any other module for the solution, but this would imply that you have to make some heavy modifications to your templates and, probably, the PHP code of the modules.

In this article, which is the second article of the article series, we will cover how to install PHP-Nuke on a local machine running an Apache/MySQL/PHP (AMP) environment. We will not cover the installation of AMP here; you can find a walkthrough of installing the XAMPP package in Appendix A. This package includes PHP, MySQL, Apache, and much more, and is a quick way to get yourself a working AMP development environment.

Once your extensions are working, we can begin exploring call routing also called as call control. When someone calls from the outside world, what do you want to do with the call? How do you want your calls to get to an extension? Unless you want your calls to go directly to an extension, you will need to configure one or more of the following features which we'll be covering in this article by Matthew M. Landis and Robert Lloyd, authors of The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial:

* Ring groups (also called Hunt groups in other PBX systems)
* Digital Receptionists or Auto-attendants
* Call by name (also called Dial by Name in some PBX systems)
* Call queues

Some of the things that we will cover in this two-part article by Carlos de la Guardia, author of Grok 1.0 Web Development, includes:

* Need for testing
* Testing in Grok
* Extending the functional test suite provided by grokproject
* Other kinds of testing
* Debugging tools

Once your shipping and tax issues taken into account, the next logical step for your e-commerce store is discount codes, as these need to be entered at the shopping basket stage. Going hand in hand with discount codes are voucher codes and referral discounts. In this article by Michael Peacock, you will learn:

* How to create a discount code system
1. How to offer different types of discounts
2. How to take the discount into account at the shopping basket stage
* How to sell voucher codes on your store
* How to offer discounts to customers who bring us referral business

It is very hard to manage thousands of users manually, so a user-provisioning tool becomes very important in our process. In this article by Flavio E.Goncalves, we are going to see two of these tools—SerMyAdmin and OpenSIPS Control Panel (OpenSIPS-CP). SerMyAdmin is more focused on the administration of the users, while OpenSIPS-CP is excellent for monitoring and provisioning parameters to the system. By the end of this article, you will be able to:

* Identify why you need a user portal for administration
* Install SerMyAdmin and its dependencies
* Configure resources such as administrator and user access
* Add and remove domains
* Customize the portal with the colors and logos of your company
* Install and configure OpenSIPS Control Panel
* Use opensips-cp for daily tasks

After more than half a year of work, beta-testing, polish and sweat, Six Apart has parted the curtain and revealed the newest version of their flagship blogging/content-management product, Movable Type 5. Any point-level release is always going to inspire others to ask: What’s new? This article by Serdar Yegulalp, highlights the key changes in MT5, which are few but fairly major, and so are worth examining here in detail.

The combination of products, presentation, and service makes our store unique. Before adding products, we need to make some decisions about how we will organize our site. A few minutes of planning now can save us hours of work later. This Chapter focuses on creating categories and attributes, a necessary step before you can build your catalog of products.