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Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed is an end-to-end, deep dive into the Visual Studio development environment. It’s meant to provide you guidance on how you can squeeze the ultimate productivity out of the many features built into the .NET development tools. Understanding how to use your tools will make you a better developer. This book was written with that premise as its focus.


The authors have folded in real-world development experience alongside detailed information about the IDE. The result is practical, easy-to-employ information that will make you a more productive and complete developer. This book also helps to ease your transition from other development environments and former versions of Visual Studio.

Finally, this book provides an entire section dedicated to Visual Studio Team System. It will help you understand how the Team Architect, Team Developer, Team Database Developer, and Team Tester work with the Team Foundation Server to increase team collaboration, visibility, and productivity.







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The book is aimed at novice programmers who wish to learn programming with C# and the .NET framework. The book starts with absolute programming basics. It then moves into Web and Windows programming, data access (databases and XML), and more advanced technologies such as graphics programming with GDI+ and basic networking.

The book is divided into sections including:

* The C# Language: Basic language skills using console application. Content moves from the absolute basics to fairly involved OOP skills.
* Windows Vista Programming: Using basic Windows applications, reinforcing earlier OOP and debugging skills.
* Web Programming: Putting together basic Web applications, highlighting differences between Web and Windows programming.
* Data Access: Accessing all kinds of data sources from Web and Windows applications, including SQL usage, XML, file system data, and Web Services.
* Additional Techniques: "The fun stuff", including Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow, Windows Communication Foundation, GDI+, networking, Windows Services, and so on.






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Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the Java™ programming language so that you can write code that is clearer, more correct, more robust, and more reusable? Look no further! Effective Java™, Second Edition, brings together seventy-eight indispensable programmer’s rules of thumb: working, best-practice solutions for the programming challenges you encounter every day.


This highly anticipated new edition of the classic, Jolt Award-winning work has been thoroughly updated to cover Java SE 5 and Java SE 6 features introduced since the first edition. Bloch explores new design patterns and language idioms, showing you how to make the most of features ranging from generics to enums, annotations to autoboxing.

Each chapter in the book consists of several “items” presented in the form of a short, standalone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and outstanding code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why.







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After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them famous. The book focuses on deconstructing these top-tier large-scale sites with particular attention given to deconstructing CSS.


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Flex 3 is the next generation of a technology that revolutionized web
applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown
from a web animation medium to a powerful enterprise web design and
development platform. With nearly 98% of all web browsers, and a growing
number of mobile devices, running Flash Player, a knowledge of Flex is
indispensible for any serious web developer. This book will show you how
to create powerful Rich Internet Applications using Flex 3.


After
learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the
Flex Builder 3 software, you will explore in depth how the Flash
scripting language, ActionScript 3.0, interacts with Flex's powerful
XML-like design language: MXML. You'll learn how to construct your
applications using layout and navigation containers, and how to move
between various states using transitions. There is coverage of how best
to plan your applications and use the Model-View-Controller pattern to
keep various aspects of development separated and ease creation of
potentially complicated projects. Rich Internet Applications rely on
data, and this book shows how to bring data from various sources into
your Flex application and check its integrity, and how best to display
and interact with it. Going farther, applications built for the Flash
platform can now exist and function beyond the traditional confines of
the web browser. Adobe AIR allows you to take your applications to the
desktop, and this book shows how to reapply your Flex skills to take
advantage of this new environment. The Essential Guide to Flex 3 takes
you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of
stand-alone, practical exercises. The skills acquired throughout the
book are then brought together in the form of a full-featured case study
application showcasing essential techniques that can easily be applied
to your own Flex applications.
In this book you'll
- Learn how to create powerful applications using Adobe Flex 3
- Use Flex Builder to design layouts using Flex MXML containers, and
see how to combine MXML and ActionScript 3.0
- Work your way through a full-featured case study, building a
complete Flex application
- Connect Flex to the ColdFusion application server, creating Flex
applications powered by dynamic server-side code
- Take your web applications to the desktop using Adobe AIR






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Audio enhancement & surround sound technologies that work perfectly with each content selection

SRS WOW HD™ - improves the audio performance of compressed and uncompressed audio by expanding the size of the audio image in the horizontal and verticle sound field and creating a deep, rich bass response. The patented techniques in SRS WOW HD also retrieve information lost in the mixing process to create a more natural audio experience

SRS TruSurround XT® - accurately reproduces multichannel content over two speakers for a realistic surround sound experience

SRS Circle Surround II® - creates multichannel surround sound from any audio source, including mono and stereo, when played over a 5.1 or 6.1 speaker playback system

SRS Headphone 360™ - delivers true 5.1 surround experience over headphones

Features:

Advanced audio enhancement features so you can tune and customize your music, movie or video

SRS® 3D - 3D stereo enhancement for mono or stereo content

SRS 3D Center Control™ - a “virtual” zoom lens that dynamically extracts and positions the dialog in the foreground or background of the audio mix

SRS TruBass® - bass maximization

SRS FOCUS™ - optimize speaker output to compensate and reposition audio placement

SRS Definition™ - delivers a more lively and brilliant sound by highlighting the high frequency details originally presented in the audio source

SRS Dialog Clarity™ - makes the vocals easier to understand over surround audio effects (for movies and video)

Surround Sound – regardless of speaker configuration

For users that have a 5.1 and or 6.1 surround sound configuration, the SRS Audio Sandbox creates true multichannel surround sound from any audio source, including stereo and mono. Conversely, for those computer setups commonly using only two speakers, the SRS Audio Sandbox takes multichannel content and uses a virtualizer to create place phantom speakers around the room, providing a realistic and enjoyable surround sound experience.

System Requirements

* PC with Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 128 MB RAM
* Sound card
* Speaker or headphones

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After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book



What you will learn from this book

* The various user-defined functions and triggers
* How to create and change tables
* Ways to manage keys, write scripts, and work with stored procedures
* Techniques for programming with XML
* How to use Reporting Services and Integration Services
* The different peripheral features of SQL


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This book covers all aspects of the Java programming language. Part 1 presents an in-depth tutorial of the Java language. It begins with the basics, including such things as data types, control statements, and classes. Part 1 also discusses Java’s exception-handling mechanism, multithreading subsystem, packages, and interfaces. Part 2 examines the standard Java library. As you will learn, much of Java’s power is found in its library. Topics include strings, I/O, networking, the standard utilities, the Collections Framework, applets, GUI-based controls, and imaging. Part 3 looks at some issues relating to the Java development environment, including an overview of Java Beans, Servlets, and Swing. Part 4 presents a number of high-powered Java applets that serve as extended examples of the way Java can be applied. The final applet, called Scrabblet, is a complete, multiuser networked game. It shows how to handle some of the toughest issues involved in Web-based programming.


What’s New in the Fifth Edition:
The differences between this and the previous editions of this book mostly involve those features added by Java 2, version 1.4. Of the many new features found in version 1.4, perhaps the most important are the assert keyword, the channel-based I/O subsystem, chained exceptions, and networking enhancements. This fifth edition has been fully updated to reflect those and other additions. New features are clearly noted in the text, as are features added by previous releases. This fifth edition also updates and restores the Sevlets chapter. Previously this chapter relied upon the now out-dated JSDK (Java Servlets Developers Kit) to develop and test servlets. It now uses Apache Tomcat, which is the currently recommended tool.


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Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning the latest enhancements in Microsoft Visual C# 2008. Visual C#, one of the tools in Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008, is a modern programming language designed to deliver a productive environment for creating business frameworks and reusable object-oriented components. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to the Visual C# programming language, you ll learn how to use the fundamental features of Visual Studio 2008 and gain a basic understanding of the latest enhancement of the Visual C# language. You ll work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises, get started creating components and working Windows® applications, and build your knowledge as you start creating your first Visual C# based applications. You ll also explore how to create data management and Web-based applications. In each chapter, work through learn-by-doing exercises that demonstrate how, when, and why to use the many features of the Visual C# rapid application development environment.


Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons to help you learn at your own pace

Helps you gain a solid understanding of how to use the fundamental features of Visual C# 2008



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