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Author(s) : Jeff Spotts, Brian Siler
Publisher : QUE
Year : Dec 2001
ISBN 10 : 078972572X
ISBN 13 : 9780789725721
Language : English
Pages : 848
File type : CHM
Size : 9.4 MB (book + source code)

This book will offer in-depth explorations of new features so that both experienced programmers and novices will feel comfortable making the transition to .NET. Although a major portion of the book is devoted to Internet applications, the book covers more general topics than many other books. Features of Visual Basic that will be explained include database access, controls, and best coding and practices. These features will be explored in detail, with extensive use of example programs and screen captures.

We feel that this book has something to offer for all skill levels. If you have never used Visual Basic before, the initial chapters provide the necessary step-by-step instructions to get you used to the Visual Studio programming environment. Users of previous versions of Visual Basic (experienced or not) will appreciate extensive, detailed coverage of the new features available in VB .NET and explanations of the changes from previous versions. Readers who are new to computer programming in general should note that technical details are sprinkled with "words of wisdom" and real-world examples to help you understand new concepts.

Some readers may need a reference to find information about a particular topic quickly. Other readers might want to follow the book in tutorial style by reading each chapter start to finish. Readers of Special Edition Using Visual Basic .NET should be able do either. Each topic is explained in a narrative fashion, with lists, pictures, and sample code to allow the reader to quickly absorb the technical details. For those seeking instant gratification, many chapters include exercises that provide step-by-step instructions to try out a particular topic on your own. Special Edition Using Visual Basic .NET is divided into six parts and a section of appendices.

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Author(s) : Mike Young, Curtis W. Young
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Jan 2003
ISBN 10 : 0471235946
ISBN 13 : 9780471235941
Language : English
Pages : 464
File type : PDF
Size : 7.3 MB

This book has been written from the perspective of the solutions that developers may need to create. The .NET Enterprise Servers are the tool, not the solution. In reality, the solution may require multiple applications that work together to fulfill the developer's business need. This book is designed to help readers recognize how they can better fulfill their business needs with the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers.

This book is unique in the breadth of topics covered. Each of the .NET Enterprise Servers is described in some depth. The book assumes that the reader has a basic understanding of the products and some of their features. The book focuses on how each product enhances or uses the .NET services and how it will help solve business process requirements.

This book is designed to help readers see Microsoft's vision for the .NET Enterprise Servers. Examples illustrate how each of these servers can be used to help create business solutions.

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Author(s) : Eric A. Smith
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Mar 2002
ISBN 10 : 047108512X
ISBN 13 : 9780471085126
Language : English
Pages : 640
File type : PDF
Size : 4 MB

ASP.NET provides developers with the functionality they need to create enterprise-level Web applications. This book clearly shows them how to use this framework to create the top ten enterprise applications that they will need for their organizations. To build these applications, Smith explains how to combine the functionality of ASP.NET with products and technologies such as VB.NET, C#, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000, WAP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The projects include an address book application, a contact manager application, advertising manager, online store, and a Web log analyzer.

Discover how to use ASP.NET to build, deploy, and run 10 distributed Web applications that can target any browser on any device ASP.NET provides developers with the functionality they need to create enterprise-level Web applications. This book clearly shows them how to use this framework to create the top ten enterprise applications that they will need for their organizations. To build these applications, Smith explains how to combine the functionality of ASP.NET with products and technologies such as VB.NET, C#, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000, WAP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

The projects include an address book application, a contact manager application, advertising manager, online store, and a Web log analyzer CD-ROM includes the complete source code for the ten projects, additional resource links, corrections, and FAQs. Companion Web site features a working version of the ten projects built in the book. Microsoft Technologies .NET Platform: The next big overhaul to Microsoft's technologies that will bring enterprise distributed computing to the next level by fully integrating the Internet into the development platform. This will allow interaction between any machine, on any platform, and on any device.

Discover how to use ASP.NET to build, deploy, and run 10 distributed Web applications that can target any browser on any device ASP.NET provides developers with the functionality they need to create enterprise-level Web applications. This book clearly shows them how to use this framework to create the top ten enterprise applications that they will need for their organizations.

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Author(s) : Robert Ian Oliver
Publisher : MS Press
Year : Nov 2002
ISBN 10 : 073561721X
ISBN 13 : 9780735617216
Language : English
Pages : 512
File type : CHM
Size : 3.7 MB (book + source code)

This book provides the detailed guidance you need to make the right choices as you design and build enterprise-level applications with Visual Basic .NET. The author€�a former member of the MS Visual Studio .NET team with extensive experience in designing, testing, and optimizing enterprise applications€�discusses the technical and architectural trade-offs you'll face as you develop large, multitier, multideveloper distributed applications. He also shows how to create a workable enterprise infrastructure, and he reveals inside tips and techniques for implementation, performance tuning, and testing. You'll find out how to take advantage of key state-of-the-art OOP features in Visual Basic .NET plus platform enhancements in MS .NET to develop serious enterprise applications quickly.

Most of what I'll cover in this book applies to a broad spectrum of applications. Our discussion will focus on development for the enterprise, but you can use the advanced programming techniques and strategies presented here to write better and more sophisticated applications of all kinds in Visual Basic .NET. In addition, much of the techniques, technologies, and development approaches covered here apply equally well to all .NET languages, including C#.

This is not a design patterns book. This book will instead focus on how to use more advanced features of Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework to build into your applications common features that have in the past been too difficult to build in. Also, do not think that the purpose of this book is to make you an "enterprise developer." This book provides a set of fundamental skills and technologies in an accessible fashion for the average developer. Think of this book as a stepping-stone to more advanced development topics.

There are two core audiences for this book: the novice Visual Basic .NET programmer and the classically trained Visual Basic developer who, already familiar with the Visual Basic .NET language, wants to see how new platform features can be and should be integrated into applications. Most of the material in this book is intended to be an extension of existing technical resources. If you're expecting a ground-up introduction to Visual Basic .NET, you'll be disappointed. I have an expectation that you have a basic familiarity with the language and platform. If you do not, there are plenty of excellent books from MS Press on the subject of Visual Basic .NET and I'd recommend starting there.

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Author(s) : Grenville Armitage, Mark Claypool, Philip Branch
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Apr 2006
ISBN 10 : 0470018577
ISBN 13 : 9780470018576
Language : English
Pages : 232
File type : PDF
Size : 3.5 MB

Today, computer games are sold to an increasingly significant market whose annual revenues already exceed that of the Hollywood movie industry. Multi-player games are making greater use of the Internet and the driving demand for €˜better than dial-up€™ access services in the consumer space. Yet many networking engineers are unfamiliar with the games that utilise their networks, as game designers are often unsure of how the Internet really behaves.

Regardless of whether you are a network engineer, technical expert, game developer, or student with interests across these fields, this book will be a valuable addition to your library. We bring together knowledge and insights into the ways multi-party/multi-player games utilise the Internet and influence traffic patterns on the Internet. Multi-player games impose loads on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) quite unlike the loads generated by email, web surfing or streaming content.

People€™s demand for realistic interactivity creates somewhat unique demands at the network level for highly reliable and timely exchange of data across the Internet €“ something the Internet rarely offers because of its origins as a €˜best effort€™ service. Game designers have developed fascinating techniques to maintain a game€™s illusion of shared experiences even when the underlying network is losing data and generally misbehaving.

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New Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom. It's filled with everything from easy automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. It even includes a built-in Learning Center to help new users get started right away!

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Author(s) : Joe Duffy
Publisher : Wrox
Year : Apr 2006
ISBN 10 : 0764571354
ISBN 13 : 9780764571350
Language : English
Pages : 624
File type : CHM
Size : 3.5 MB (book + source code)

As the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR) continue to mature in terms of platform adoption, robustness, reliability, and feature richness, developers have an increasing need to understand the foundation on top of which all managed code runs. This book looks at the underlying platform commonalities that all developers can use, regardless of language choice or development tools. This includes languages such as C#, Visual Basic, C++/CLI, and others.

You'll begin with an in-depth look at CLR fundamentals. From there, you'll review first the Base Class Libraries (BCL) and then the more advanced Framework libraries that are commonly used in most managed applications. With an abundance of working code examples and unique depth of coverage, this book will quickly get you up to speed on what the .NET Framework and CLR 2.0 have to offer.

This book is for developers experienced either with the Microsoft (.NET 1.x, Win32, or COM) or Java platforms who want to understand and program with the .NET Framework and CLR.

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Author(s) : Kris Kaspersky
Publisher : A-LIST
Year : May 2004
ISBN : 1931769338
Language : English
Pages : 300
File type : CHM
Size : 18.4 MB (book + source code)

Aimed at shareware and commercial software programmers, as well as users interested in CD protection, this book will help readers defeat hackers and crackers who try to copy CDs without authorization.

A manual on protecting CDs against illegal copying, this book shows how crackers copy CDs using various access methods. The methods covered include the CDFS driver, cooked mode, SPTI, ASPI, the SCSI port, and the MSCDEX driver. Explained is how to prevent cracker break-ins using protections based on nonstandard CD formats such as the CD driver and weak CD sectors. Information on CD functioning fundamentals and tips related to CD protection in a format free of math and assembling-such as data formats, the scrambler, the Reed-Solomon coder/encoder, the CIRC coder/encoder, and a weak-sectors generator-are also provided. The main program interfaces, which provide direct control via peripheral devices on the application level in UNIX, Novell, and Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, are considered, as is how to read and write RAW sectors.

The book also discusses practically all commercial CD protection packets available today. It lists their implementation errors, €œthanks€� to which the copying of protected discs is still possible. The author also suggests several protection mechanisms that take into account his own bitter experience and that of his friends and colleagues. These protection mechanisms cannot be copied using any of the copiers that exist today.

While reading this book, you will learn how to invalidate the disc format in order to make it readable (that is, playable) on most CD-ROM drives, but practically impossible for any copier to copy, and how to bind to the physical disc structure so that copiers are unable either to reproduce or imitate it. You€™ll also learn about the physical and technical limitations of low-end recorders and how to use these to achieve your goals.

Finally, the book explains how to create a protected CD copier on your own, making the replication of protected discs a much easier task.

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Author(s) : Michael McMillan
Publisher : Cambridge
Year : Mar 2005
ISBN 10 : 0521547652
ISBN 13 : 9780521547659
Language : English
Pages : 412
File type : PDF
Size : 1.2 MB

This is the first Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET) book to provide a comprehensive discussion of the major data structures and algorithms. Here, instead of having to translate material on C++ or Java, the professional or student VB.NET programmer will and a tutorial on how to use data structures and algorithms and a reference for implementation using VB.NET for data structures and algorithms from the .NET Framework Class Library as well as those that must be developed by the programmer.

This book is written primarily as a practical overview of the data structures and algorithms all serious computer programmers need to know and understand. Given this, there is no formal analysis of the data structures and algorithms covered in the book. Hence, there is not a single mathematical formula and not one mention of Big O analysis (for the latter the reader is referred to any of the books listed in the bibliography). Instead, the various data structures and algorithms are presented as problem-solving tools. We use simple timing tests to compare the performance of the data structures and algorithms discussed in the book.

This book can be used in both beginning and advanced computer programming courses that use the VB.NET language and, most importantly, by the professional Visual Basic programmer.

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Author(s) : Jeffrey P. McManus, Jackie Goldstein
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Year : Feb 2003
ISBN 10 : 0672323435
ISBN 13 : 9780672323430
Language : English
Pages : 464
File type : CHM
Size : 5.6 MB (book + source code)

Database Access with Visual Basic .NET continues to use techniques developed by Jeffrey McManus that provide solutions to problems faced by developers every day. Since data access is the most used feature in corporate development, it is important for developers to understand the most effective and efficient way to access data using .NET technologies. This book provides clear explanations of how to use ADO.NET to access data stored in relational databases, as well as how XML integrates with ADO.NET. The authors use their years of experience to relate key topics to real-world applications through use of Business Cases that include code listings in Visual Basic .NET.

The purpose of this book is to show you how to develop database applications, using Visual Basic.NET and ADO.NET. Even though we expect that most readers will be working with SQL Server, we do not assume that they are experienced with it. You may be new to database applications or only have experience with other databases such as Microsoft Access or Oracle. We have therefore included a hefty overview of Microsoft SQL Server in Chapter 3. If you are experienced with SQL Server, you may want to skip this chapter. However, it covers a wide variety of topics, and you may still find a "nugget" or two that would make reading the chapter worthwhile.

We assume that you are already familiar with Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET). Although we give step-by-step coding instructions and code examples, we do not cover VB.NET syntax in this book. We assume that you are reasonably comfortable with VB.NET and Visual Studio.NET (VS.NET) and do not waste your time reviewing fundamental concepts. For example, we do not normally step through basic tasks, such as opening and saving project files, except maybe the first time you encounter them. We do, however, often show how to do the same thing in several different ways€�we hope that this will extend your knowledge of VB.NET, without rehashing the basics. You may also notice variant coding styles, and even screen shots on different versions of Windows€�all illustrating the flexibility of VB.NET.

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Author(s) : Liviu Asnash, Eran Megiddo, Craig Thomas
Publisher : Wrox
Year : Mar 2007
ISBN 10 : 0470104899
ISBN 13 : 9780470104897
Language : English
Pages : 404
File type : PDF
Size : 5.5 MB

Excel Services is a new technology being delivered as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Excel Services will enable managed and secure distribution of Excel reports, incorporating spreadsheets in business intelligence dashboards and portals, protecting the proprietary information in spreadsheets, and building custom applications with Excel-based logic. This book will walk you through the process of understanding what Excel Services is, how your business can benefit from it, and how to incorporate it in your solutions.

This book is designed to be an introduction to Excel Services for all those that want to understand what it is, what it does, what the benefits are, and how to get started. The target audience is IT TDMs and developers that need to come up to speed on the new technologies in Office 2007 and may be responsible for evaluating and deploying Office 2007 and Office SharePoint 2007. This book is also great for all Microsoft partners including system integrators, consulting companies, hosting companies, VARs and independent software vendors that will be building and deploying solutions for their customers based on the new Office technologies. Anyone currently managing or developing solutions with Excel, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, or business intelligence solutions should read this book to understand the basics of Excel Services

This book is for anyone who wants to learn what Excel Services is, what it does, what the benefits are, and how to get started. You should have an understanding of Excel, basic knowledge of Excel 2007, and familiarity with Windows SharePoint Services.

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Author(s) : Anne Prince
Publisher : Murach
Year : Jun 2002
ISBN 10 : 1890774154
ISBN 13 : 9781890774158
Language : English
Pages : 692
File type : PDF
Size : 13.5 MB (book + source code)

If you€™re new to Visual Basic .NET, this book gets you started right. By chapter 3, you€™ll be developing simple but complete applications. By chapter 5, you€™ll be doing some serious programming. And by chapter 7, you€™ll be able to code, test, and debug object-oriented programs with Visual Basic .NET.

Of course, there€™s a lot more to Visual Basic .NET than one beginning book can cover. But this book gets you started with all of the important features and capabilities of Visual Basic .NET and prepares you for learning more about them on your own. That€™s why we say that no other book or course will get you started faster or better than this book.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to use Visual Basic .NET for developing business applications. It works if you have no programming experience at all. It works if you have programming experience with another language like COBOL or Java. It works if you already know Visual Basic 6. And it works if you€™ve already read three or four other Visual Basic .NET books and still don€™t know how to develop a real-world business application.

If you€™re completely new to programming, the prerequisites are minimal. First, you need to be familiar with the Windows interface. This means that you have used Windows applications like Word or Excel so you€™re comfortable with tasks like opening, saving, printing, and closing files. Second, you should know how to use the Windows Explorer to copy folders and files from one location to another.

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Author(s) : Ron Petrusha
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Year : Jul 2006
ISBN 10 : 0072260335
ISBN 13 : 9780072260335
Language : English
Pages : 874
File type : PDF
Size : 3.2 MB (book + source code)

This book is definitive Visual Basic 2005 programming and development resource.

Get full details on the powerful features of Visual Basic 2005 in this comprehensive one-stop guide that's filled with information not included in the online documentation. Programming expert Ron Petrusha begins by laying out what's new in Visual Basic 2005, such as its object-oriented programming capabilities. You'll find in-depth coverage of current language elements, coding techniques, and troubleshooting procedures.

Syntax explanations, code samples, and real-world examples illustrate each point along the way. Valuable appendices include information on constants and enumerations, compiling applications from the command line, and data conversion. This book is a particularly valuable desktop companion when coding and troubleshooting misbehaving code.

Master this massive programming language upgrade that raises Visual Basic functionality to the level of the .NET platform. Coverage includes all core topics€�plus security, debugging, and helpful information on migrating existing Visual Basic projects to Visual Basic.NET.

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Author(s) : Fritz Onion
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Year : Feb 2003
ISBN 10 : 0201760398
ISBN 13 : 9780201760392
Language : English
Pages : 432
File type : CHM
Size : 4.6 MB (book with source code)

Essential ASP.NET with Examples in Visual Basic .NET is the Visual Basic programmer's definitive reference for ASP.NET through version 1.1. It provides experienced programmers with the information needed to fully understand the technology, and is a clear guide to using ASP.NET to build robust and well-architected Web applications.

This book begins with a discussion of the rationale behind the design of ASP.NET and an introduction to how it builds on top of the .NET framework. Subsequent chapters explore the host of new features in ASP.NET, including the server-side compilation model, code-behind classes, server-side controls, form validation, the data binding model, and custom control development. Throughout the book, working examples illustrate best practices for building Web-based applications in VB.NET.

This book focuses exclusively on ASP.NET and does not spend time reviewing .NET programming, object-oriented programming techniques, database access, or general Web application development techniques. You will be able to get the most out of this book if you have spent some time gaining experience in each of these areas.

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These themes make you wanna update your blog, visitors will like to browse your blog with easy and cool user interface :
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Author(s): Stephen Randy Davis
Publisher: Wiley
Year: May 2004
ISBN: 0764568523
Language: English
Pages: 432
File type: PDF
Size : 2.5 MB

If you€™ve thought of programmers as elite intelligentsia who possess expertise (and perhaps genes) the rest of us will never have, think again. C++ For Dummies, 5th Edition, debunks the myths, blasts the barriers, shares the secrets, and gets you started. In fact, by the end of Chapter 1, you€™ll be able to create a C++ program. OK, it won€™t be newest, flashiest video game, but it might be a practical, customized inventory control or record-keeping program.


TABLE OF CONTENT:
Part 1 - Introduction to C++ Programming
Part 2 - Becoming a Functional C++ Programmer
Part 3 - Introduction to Classes
Part 4 - Inheritance
Part 5 - Optional Features
Part 6 - The Part of Tens

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Author(s): Paul Bausch, Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
Publisher: O'Reilly
Year: Aug 2006
ISBN: 0596527063
Language: English
Pages: 543
File type: CHM
Size : 5.8 MB


Now that new features and services such as Google Maps, Google Talk, and Google Desktop have been added to the expanding Google universe, we've made the third edition of this bestseller into an infinitely more useful book for this powerful search engine. You'll not only find dozens of hacks for new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and scripts for hacking the old ones.

Everyone knows that Google lets you search billions of web pages. But few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and play with information.

Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google has added many new features and services to its expanding universe: Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Blog Search, Video Search, Music Search, Google Base, Google Reader, and Google Desktop among them. We've found ways to get these new services to do even more.

The expanded third edition of Google Hacks is a brand-new and infinitely more useful book for this powerful search engine. You'll not only find dozens of hacks for the new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and scripts for hacking the old ones. Now you can make a Google Earth movie, visualize your web site traffic with Google Analytics, post pictures to your blog with Picasa, or access Gmail in your favorite email client. Industrial strength and real-world tested, this new collection enables you to mine a ton of information within Google's reach.

For those of you concerned about Google as an emerging Big Brother, this new edition also offers advice and concrete tips for protecting your privacy. Get into the world of Google and bend it to your will!

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Author(s): Jo Stichbury
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2005
ISBN: 0470021306
Language: English
Pages: 393
File type: PDF
Size : 1.3 MB


The book is divided into a series of self-contained chapters, each discussing specific and important features of Symbian OS. Besides the fundamentals, the chapters illustrate best practice and describe any common mistakes to avoid. The chapters are concise enough to impart the insight you need without being so brief as to leave you needing more information. Each chapter delivers simple and straightforward explanations without omitting the important facts.

Developing good C++ code on Symbian OS requires a clear understanding of the underlying concepts and the nature of the operating system. This book explains the key features of Symbian OS and shows how you can use this knowledge most effectively. It also focuses on some aspects of good C++ style that particularly apply to Symbian OS. With understanding and practice, the expertise required to write high quality C++ code on Symbian OS should become second nature.

This book doesn€™t teach you how to write C++. It assumes you€™re already familiar with the most important concepts of the language.Neither does it walk through Symbian OS from the perspective of developing a particular application. Instead, I try to impart an understanding of the central concepts and key features of Symbian OS and good techniques in C++. To quote from Scott Meyers, whose book inspired me to write this one, €�In this book you€™ll find advice on what you should do, and why, and what you should not do, and why not€�.

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Author(s): Andrew Parsons, Nick Randolph
Publisher: Wrox
Year: Aug 2006
ISBN: 0764598465
Language: English
Pages: 914
File type: PDF
Size : 15.5 MB (book + source code)


This book looks at every fundamental aspect of this new developer tool, showing you how to harness each feature and offering advice about how best to utilize the various components effectively. This book shows you the building blocks that make up Visual Studio 2005, breaking the user interface down into manageable chunks for you to understand.

It then expands on each of these components with additional details about exactly how it works both in isolation and in conjunction with other parts of Visual Studio to make your development efforts even more efficient.

Visual Studio 2005 is an enormous product no matter which way you look at it. Incorporating the latest advances in Microsoft€™s premier programming languages, Visual Basic and C#, along with a host of improvements and new features in the user interface, it can be intimidating to both newcomers and experienced .NET developers.

Professional Visual Studio 2005 is for all developers new to Visual Studio as well as those programmers who have some experience but want to learn about features they may have previously overlooked. If you are familiar with the way previous versions of Visual Studio worked, you may want to skip Part I, which deals with the basic constructs that make up the user interface, and move on to the remainder of the book where the new features found in Visual Studio 2005 are discussed in detail. If you€™re just starting out, you€™ll greatly benefit from the first part, where basic concepts are explained and you are introduced to the user interface and how to customize it to suit your own style.

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Author: Mark Stamp
Publisher: Wiley
Year: Oct 2005
ISBN: 0471738484
Language: English
Pages: 412
File type: PDF
Size : 4.5 MB


Some security textbooks offer a large dollop of dry useless theory. Reading one of these books is about as exciting as reading a calculus textbook. Other security books offer nothing but a collection of apparently unrelated facts, giving the impression that security is not really a coherent subject at all. Then there are books that present the topic as ac ollection of high-level managerial platitudes. These books may have a place, but if your goal is to design and build secure systems, you€™d better understand something about the underlying technology. Finally, some security books focus on the human factors in security. While it is certainly critical to understand the role that human nature plays in security, I would argue that a security engineer must have a solid understanding of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the technology before the human factors can be fullyappreciated.

Information security is a huge topic, and unlike more established fields, it€™s not clear what material should be included in a book like this, or how best to organize the selected material. I€™ve chosen to organize this book around the following four major themes:
€ Cryptography
€ AccessControl
€ Protocols
€ Software

These themes are fairly elastic so that I can include what I consider to be the most significant material. For example, in my usage, access control includes the traditional topics of authentication and authorization, along with such non-traditional topics as firewalls and CAPTCHAs. The software theme is particularly flexible, including such diverse topics as secure software development, computer viruses, software reverse engineering, and operating systems.

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Author(s): George Woolard
Publisher: LTP
Year: 1999
ISBN: 1899396012
Language: English
File type: PDF
Pages: 104
Size : 4.50 MB

This is a book which uses jokes to highlight grammatical patterns. Humorous learning materials have a number of advantages. Firstly, they increase motivation by being potentially amusing. Secondly, they are memorable and can help the learner to remember grammar. Lastly, they lead to spontaneous practice and consolidation of grammar through the learner's natural desire to share jokes with others.

It is intended for intermediate students although the material will be of use to pre- and the post-intermediate student. It consists of 82 woorksheets to be used to provide supplementary grammar practice. The woorksheets are organised grammatically, consisting of a series of jokes which have a single grammar focus. Each worksheet ends with a task which is designed to help the learner personalise the grammar focus item of the woorksheet. This generally involves learners in producing information about themselves, their attitude and opinions.