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Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform (Windows.Net)
by Andrew Troelsen
Whether you’re moving to .NET for the first time, or you’re already writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0, Pro VB 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform will provide you with a solid grounding in this new technology and serve as a comprehensive reference throughout your coding career: Explore five new chapters of content—including the grammar of the common intermediate language (CIL), .NET generics, and object serialization services. Discover all the new .NET 3.
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ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers (Second Edition)
by William R. Vaughn, Bill Vaughn
ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers, Second Edition brings the popular first edition up to date with fresh insights and tips on COM-based ADO&emdash;and adds a voluminous section on the new ADO.NET technology. Written specifically for COM-based ADO developers retooling for ADO.NET, this is a developer's book, packed with practical advice on how to make code run faster, yet be easier to write and understand.
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Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
by Sam Tregar
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN offers Perl developers a comprehensive guide to using and contributing to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Starting with a general overview of CPAN's history, network topology, and navigational mechanisms, the book quickly brings you up to speed regarding how to search out and install available modules.
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C# and the .NET Platform, Second Edition
by Andrew Troelsen
The first edition of thise book was released during the 2001 TechEd conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, C# and the .NET Platform has been translated into eight different languages, nominated as a 2002 Jolt Award Finalst, and named winner of the 2003 Referenceware Excellence Awards in the best programming book category. For those of you who have read the first edition, were happy to report that the text has gone through a substantial upgrade.
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Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code (Expert's Voice)
by Reverend Bill Blunden
YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK! Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching, no bulls$&# look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code that you are forced to clean up? This is your book.
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Maximizing .NET Performance (Expert's Voice)
by Nick Wienholt
Foreword by .NET Remoting guru Ingo Rammer BACK IN 1999, the ACM published a study1 that presented a comparison of 40 independent implementations of a computationally intensive problem, created by different programmers in either Java&emdash;the then-current managed runtime environment&emdash;or C/C
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Advanced .NET Remoting, Second Edition
by Ingo Rammer, Mario Szpuszta
With the arrival of .NET remoting, any programmer who wants to work with distributed objects can benefit from Advanced .NET Remoting, a solid tour of basic and expert techniques for working with distributed code on Microsoft's newest platform. This title's concise, code-centered approach, backed up by judicious discussion of the finer technical points of .NET, is what helps make it a success.
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
by Rodney Landrum, Walter J. Voytek II
SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 is the latest version of the reporting technology from Microsoft, providing the means to design, author, render, and deploy business reports to users, customers, and employees via the Web or the company intranet. The reporting engine is built into the SQL Server 2005 database (and provided as a free add-on with SQL Server 2000), and the report manager is integrated with Visual Studio 2003, offering an effective and familiar environment for SQL Server and
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Dynamics AX: A Guide to Microsoft Axapta
by Luis Mouro, David Weiner
The world's leading Axapta experts will take you from Axapta novice to pro in this book. This authoritative and comprehensive guide walks you gently through the bulk of what you need to know to productively apply the system in the real world&emdash;with real data, sizing guidelines, deployment architectures, and code. By the book's end, you will have acquired practical hands-on experience.
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Pro SQL Server 2005
by Thomas Rizzo, Adam Machanic, Robin Dewson, Rob Walters, Joseph Sack, Julian Skinner, Louis Davidson
SQL Server 2005 is a landmark release of Microsoft's powerful relational database management system for the Windows platform, and one that will change the way you architect your data systems and develop your data-driven applications. Pro SQL Server 2005 takes a deep look at the full range of SQL Server enhancements, and includes meaningful and relevant examples showing how these new features work and how you can build applications effectively.
