Whether you've already made the move to Visual Basic .NET, or you want to know what's in it for you when you do, Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects will show you the kinds of opportunities that .NET makes available. It will allow you to make clear, informed decisions about the right way to develop your projects, and show you how the trade-off between performance and flexibility can be made successfully.

As well as these, this book contains the author's Component-based, Scalable, Logical Architecture (CSLA .NET), an object-oriented framework that can act as the foundation for a diverse range of enterprise applications, and which you're free to examine, use, and modify for your needs.

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We reside in various communities and live in one world. Although we may reside in Beijing, China, on a kibbutz in Israel, or in Muleshoe, Texas, we are aware of the impact of world events on our lives.

This has not always been true. Throughout most of history, life generally was impacted by dominant qualities in one’s communityora region reachable within one day. Important events that impacted the lives of those living thousands of miles away generally were unknown and had little impact outside that immediate area. Now, however, knowledge of events that occur throughout the world can be received in real time and can impact others’ lives greatly.

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 Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 earns a gold star and a prized place in my development book library. Brian is an exceptional teacher of technology, best practices, and technique. He continues to educate at every presentation I attend; his book carries that quality to paper. I found this book to be highly informative and full of all the important steps and examples necessary to learn this technology. In this book, Brian demonstrates a firm grasp on the concepts and I really enjoy his efforts to promote best practices at every chance. Definitively a cover-to-cover read.

Data binding is the most important part of many business applicationsand one of the most difficult things to understand. Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 is the first book to focus on this crucial area of development. It will quickly get you up to speed on binding data sources to Windows Forms components. The book contains clear examples in C# that work with SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. Visual Basic .NET examples are available on the book's Web site.

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Visual Basic .NET WAS not written by Visual Basic programmers. The entire .NET family of languages was created by C programmers. C—and its cohort OOP—is an academic language. Visual Basic is a popular language. These facts have consequences.

The authors of this book are not beholden to any organization. We're not writing for MS Press, nor are we affiliated with any corporation or school. Indeed, we like to think that we're not dependent on anyone for our paycheck—other than you, dear reader—and can therefore be more objective than many of our colleagues.

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MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database program. 
 
MySQL is more like Micro$oft SQL Server (a server-based database program) than Access (mainly for desktop users). With MySQL running on a server, you can easily use it for business systems or database-driven websites.
 
Easy to use and configure, MySQL is also capable of industrial strength applications. Depending on the computer it’s installed on, MySQL can hold several terabytes of information per table. 

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Visual Studio .NET is filled with thousands of features and functionalities that make our lives as developers more efficient. Not only is it a code editor, compiler, and debugger, but it contains features to stress-test, analyze, and optimize you code, and to allow easy integration with code documentation reporting, or smart-device programming, such as the Pocket PC.

The number of features that Visual Studio .NET contains is immense. I doubt that many .NET developers know all of its features, shortcuts, and functionalities. Being a fan of keyboard shortcuts and tidbits that make my life as a developer better, or simply faster, I began to collect Visual Studio .NET tips and tricks. When startet out as a small list became bigger and bigger, leading to workshops I gave in Visual Studio .NET. Those workshops finally evolved into this book.

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The fun and easy way to conquer statistics and probability Probability For Dummies expands upon students intuitive understanding of the concept of probability through use of examples and clear explanations of mathematics behind this fascinating science. Included is discussion of set theory, counting, permutations and combinations, random variables, conditional probability, joint distributions, conditional expectations, gambling, and actuarial applications and probability modeling. The book also includes sample problems with a minimal reliance on complicated calculus. Packed with real-life examples and thorough explanations of math problems, students and professionals in such fields as investment banking, forensic science, and engineering will have just the straightforward, friendly guide they're looking for. Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD (Columbus, OH), is a Statistics Education Specialist and auxiliary faculty member of the Department of Statistics at Ohio State University. Her books include Statistics For Dummies (0-7645-5423-9) and the Statistics Workbook For Dummies

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Ncurses is a programming library with an API that allows programmers to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner; it's currently the most popular way to program a console in the Unix environment. The book serves as a tutorial that walks C language programmers from the very basics of ncurses to the more advanced functions, such as manipulating windows, reading the keyboard, color text, using the mouse, and other more advanced possibilities. The book is also a reference that contains more than 180 standard ncurses library functions and constants and explains how each of these options is optimally used. It contains various notes which describe the function behavior, while sample code and programs round out the reference.

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Develop your own games for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance! Now you can write, compile, and run Game Boy programs right on your Windows desktop! "Programming the Nintendo Game Boy Advance: The Unofficial Guide" will show you how you can use the free HAM SDK to create your own games for the Game Boy Advance. When you?re ready to take the game off of your desktop and run it on a real Game Boy, you?ll get plenty of coverage on your options with multi-link cables and flash linkers as well as details for purchasing either. Staying focused as a true console programming book, "Programming the Nintendo Game Boy Advance: The Unofficial Guide" gives you the tips and skills that you need to develop a career as a console game programmer. All you need to get started is experience programming with C and professional game programming aspirations.

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Make your Web pages stand out above the noise with JavaScript and the expert instruction in this much-anticipated update to the bestselling JavaScript Bible. With renowned JavaScript expert Danny Goodman at your side, you'll get a thorough grounding in JavaScript basics, see how it fits with current Web browsers, and find all the soup-to-nuts detail you'll need, whether you're a veteran programmer or just starting out. This is the JavaScript book Web developers turn to again and again.

    * Master JavaScript fundamentals and write your first practical script
    * Develop code for both single- and cross-platform audiences and evolving standards
    * Get the essentials of document object models and HTML element objects
    * Write scripts that dynamically modify Web pages in response to user actions
    * Learn the power of new Ajax technologies to create efficient Web page user interfaces
    * Apply the latest JavaScript exception handling and custom object techniques
    * Create interactivity with sites like Google Maps

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Practical Subversion, Second Edition draws on the experience of its authors, Daniel Berlin and Garrett Rooney—both Subversion project members—to guide you through a complete introduction to this popular code management solution. And this edition has been updated to reflect the most recent changes to the popular Subversion version control system. After a crash course on Subversion’s key features, including a theme project that you’re encouraged to follow, you’ll explore best practices, migration tips for moving from other versioning solutions, Subversion integration, and an overview of the Subversion APIs.

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When you’re trying to harness the power of PowerPoint, you don’t want to wade through lots of background and definitions; you want to make things happen! Power Point Just the Steps for Dummies puts your hands and eyes to work immediately so you can finish any PowerPoint project in a flash.  Just choose your task, follow the step-by-step instructions and vivid illustrations, and POOF! It’s done. In seconds, you’ll be:

    * Creating a new presentation
    * Resizing or moving an object
    * Duplicating a slide
    * Using the outlining toolbar
    * Adding notes to a slide
    * Printing your presentation
    * Setting up a slide show
    * Working with pictures and clip art
    * Coloring text and objects
    * Modifying the slide master
    * Creating a template
    * Inserting a diagram or chart
    * Adding sound and video
    * And more

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Organizations that select, develop, deploy, manage, and motivate their people to produce outstanding business results have an extraordinary competitive advantage that others can't copy. Backed by Mercer's nine-year, $10 million study of leading companies around the world, Play to Your Strengths shows how to leverage a company's human capital strategy into business results that are measurable and profitable and that will create exceptional, enduring competitive advantages.

This bottom-line-boosting guide gives managers, senior executives, and consultants the theory, tools, and processes they need to:

• Measure the effects of people on business results
• Determine the impact of strategies before making them
• Focus on the organization's most effective people strategies
• Deliver more money to the bottom line in a sustainable manner
• Create enduring, copy-proof competitive advantages

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MS Visual Basic has the largest user base of any development language in the world, and the ranks are growing. Estimates put the number of users of Visual Basic at about 3 million. Once considered a hobbyist's language, Visual Basic has quickly gained the respect of serious developers and is now widely used in corporate and other commercial environments. Visual Basic .NET further raises the bar, as it now shares the common language runtime used by Visual C# .NET and other MS .NET languages.

It also shares the same IDE, debugging tools, and much more. In the past, there were many arguments about the utility of Visual Basic in building enterprise solutions. Much of this debate pitted the RAD attributes of Visual Basic against the power attributes of C++. Visual Basic was capable of doing amazing things, but often you had to resort to API calls and third-party components to get "under the hood" of MS Windows. Now, the playing field is truly level. Visual Basic .NET's generous flexibility, combined with its focus on maintaining backward compatibility, has always made it an extremely powerful language. Unfortunately, these attributes also seem to encourage sloppy programming, and that simply won't do in today's fast-paced development environments.

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In the Visual Basic 6.0 to VB.NET Migration for Developers course from LearnKey, Visual Basic developers will learn how to migrate to the latest version of this favored application building tool. Expert instructor Shannon Horn begins by explaining .NET, Microsoft�s web services and applications platform, and then moves logically and progressively through the migration issues VB developers will face. At the conclusion of this course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to move your development efforts to VB.NET.

Benefits

 • Increase earning potential with technical mastery.
 • Enhance employment opportunities with IT development knowledge.
 • Gain new skills in a useful, productive manner

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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a method of remotely storing and receiving data using devices called RFID tags. RFID tags can be small adhesive stickers containing antennas that allow them to receive and respond to transmissions from RFID transmitters. RFID tags are used to identify and track everything from Exxon EZ passes to dogs to beer kegs to library books. RFID tags use a standard that has already been hacked by several researchers.

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If you’re reading this, you are likely ready to work with the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and are seeking some direction.

This book provides information about XMLand the issues involved in designing XML-based solutions for business problems. It does so in a case-study format, with each chapter taking one part of the single main project, and leading you through the design of a solution for that, so that by the end of the book, you will understand every aspect of using XMLto design business solutions.

After a broad-stroke introduction to XMLtechnologies, the book surveys solutions to typical business and technology needs that are best solved using XML. You’ll tackle XMLmarkup—more specifically, the kind of markup that you find “under the hood” of everyday applications and web services. Commonly available resources are used to show you the fundamentals of what XMLmarkup is, how to get at valuable information through these resources, and how to begin providing valuable information to others through XML.

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Software is built on abstractions. Pick the right ones, and programming will flow naturally from design; modules will have small and simple interfaces; and new functionality will more likely fit in without extensive reorganization. Pick the wrong ones, and programming will be a series of nasty surprises: interfaces will become baroque and clumsy as they are forced to accommodate unanticipated interactions, and even the simplest of changes will be hard to make. No amount of refactoring, bar starting again from scratch, can rescue a system built on flawed concepts.

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