Programming Microsoft ASPNET 20 Applications or Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics

Author: Dino Esposito

Master advanced topics in ASP.NET 2.0 programming-gaining the essential insights and in-depth understanding you need to build sophisticated, highly functional Web applications successfully. Topics include Web forms, Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005, core controls, master pages, data access, data binding, state management, and security considerations. Developers often discover that the more they use ASP.NET, the more they need to know. With expert guidance from ASP.NET authority Dino Esposito, you get the in-depth, comprehensive information that leads to full mastery of the technology.

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Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers: From Novice to Professional

Author: Robin Dewson

Assuming neither database nor programming background, Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers introduces all the fundamental database administration and SQL programming features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, the free relational database management system from Microsoft that provides a major subset of full SQL Server 2005 functionality.

This book is a comprehensive guide that covers installing and configuring SQL Server 2005 Express; creating, backing up, and restoring databases; creating tables, then querying and manipulating them with T-SQL; coding stored procedures and triggers, and using Reporting Services to deliver information to end users. Detailed, clear, and highly readable, this book will make you a competent and confident database administrator and programmer.

• This is the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to SQL Server 2005 Express.
• The book assumes no prior experience with databases, SQL, or programming.
• You'll learn about both database administration and T-SQL programming.
• The book covers SQL Server Management Studio and Reporting Services.

AppleScript or Google Apps Administrator Guide

AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X

Author: Hanaan Rosenthal

This is the second edition of Hanaan Rosenthal's critically-acclaimed AppleScript book. It goes the extra mile to teach you AppleScript--explaining advanced topics without leaving you behind.

AppleScript is the high-level scripting language that resides on the Mac platform. It can be used to add functionality to the Mac operating system, automate tasks, add functions, and generally make things easier. AppleScript has always been very useful, and with Mac OS X, you can take AppleScript further than before.

This book begins with the basics like handling variables, loops, and commands. Then it proceeds with more advanced concepts like debugging, AppleScripting with databases, manipulating PDFs with SMILE, and automating media workflow. In a nutshell, this book:

• Takes you on a journey from novice to professional AppleScripter.
• Is completely comprehensive; nothing is left to the imagination.
• Is up-to-date through AppleScript 1.10/Mac OS X Tiger.

If you are a Mac user who wants to know the real meaning of having full control over your machine, get into AppleScripting. And pick up this book because it really is the only guide you need to master the art of AppleScripting!

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Google Apps Administrator Guide: A Private-Label Web Workspace

Author: David W Boles

With Google Apps, you and your colleagues or friends can check email, schedule meetings, chat in real time, collaborate on documents, and more. You can create your own personalized web and email addresses, and get loads of free storage. You can connect with others and access your documents 24/7, no matter where you are. Best of all, it's all hosted by Google-you get the same bandwidth, service, and machines that Google provides its staff and other online clients, and there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain. Google Apps Administrator Guide is for aspiring and practicing webmasters or IT Professionals from any small business, university, college, eBay shop, charity organization, or any other kind of group that wants to work together. That means you can work with colleagues and friends in a single-sign-on web workspace. This book begins by explaining the often tricky and technical work of preparing your domain to work properly with Google Apps in friendly, layman's terms. That includes registering your domain, explaining zone files, transferring existing email accounts and web pages to your new domain and email system, and creating user accounts. Then it's time to start building your workspace by customizing how Google Apps interacts with your domain, and deciding which services you choose to provide for your users and employees, and/or friends and family. This book also discusses more advanced techniques for working online with Google Apps, including adding administrators, sharing calendars, editing web pages, and much more. Because Google Apps is always gaining new functionality, this book provides online updates and bonus chapters at bolesbooks.com/thomson/.Those online updates contain any major changes to Google Apps and help make sure your Google Apps Administrator Guide will always be up-to-date. This is the only book you will ever need to master Google Apps!

Alan Simpsons Windows XP Reloaded Bible or The CSS Anthology

Alan Simpson's Windows XP Reloaded Bible

Author: Alan Simpson

* Jam-packed with more than 900 pages of comprehensive information on the Service Pack 2 update of Windows XP, this book covers the basics as well as more complex topics
* Features new coverage of Media Player 10, Movie Maker, and Service Pack 2, with sidebars, workarounds, solutions, and tips
* Focusing on Windows XP functionality, the book addresses the most popular Internet features, how to customize the work environment, maintain and tweak the system, and work with text, numbers, and graphics
* This is an ideal reference for users with limited Windows XP experience who need a comprehensive resource to make the most out of their hardware and operating system

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The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Author: Rachel Andrew

A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for professionals and novices, that can be used both as a tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical reference book to common problems, solutions and effects. The 2nd edition is now full-color throughout and is completely updated and revised with the latest tips & tricks.

This book will show you how to:
-Construct robust CSS layouts that work every time.
-Create sleek drop-down menus using only CSS.
-Build a professional tabbed navigation system.
-Replace image-based navigation with low-fat CSS lists.
-Design smarter, more usable CSS-flavored web forms.
-Use rounded corners minus the bloated HTML.
-Allow your visitors to select their preferred look and feel.
-Let the W3C validator do your debugging.
-Reduce the burden of site maintenance and updates. ... along with 92 other solutions to common questions and problems.

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is ideal for experienced Web designers who would like to add sparkle to their existing designs, as well as newcomers who want to learn Web design the right way the first time.

The book is written so that it can be read cover to cover, or referred to like a cookbook with 101 different recipies for your Website. It's written in an easy-to-follow, consistent format that's well illustrated with plenty of full color screenshots and code examples, providing quick visual cues. If you hate wading through dry academic-style texts, then the illustrations and examples throughout this book will suit you

The Digital Dialectic or Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2005

The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media

Author: Peter Lunenfeld

The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.

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Touted as an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer continues to pervade almost every moment of our lives, this book delivers in grand, thought-provoking style. Edited by Lunenfeld (communication and new media design, Art Center Coll. of Design), the volume offers a cornucopia of essays by almost a dozen contributors (including Lunenfeld himself), who draw inspiration from the 1995 Conference on the Convergence of Technology, Media, and Theory. None of the material seems dated (four years can be eons when considering technology), and a clear favorite has to be Brenda Laurels wry, memoir-like discourse on technology and entertainment, Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation. Other offerings include William J. Mitchells Replacing Place and George P. Landows Hypertext as Collage Writing. This effort in toto is an entertaining, unqualified success. Recommended for all collections.Geoff Rotunno, Valley Voice Newspaper, Goleta, CA

Table of Contents:

	Series Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
	Introduction
	Screen Grabs: The Digital Dialectic and New Media Theory
I	The Real and the Ideal
1	Unfinished Business	6
2	The Cyberspace Dialectic	24
3	The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic	46
II	The Body and the Machine
4	The Condition of Virtuality	68
5	From Cybernation to Interaction: A Contribution to an Archaeology of Interactivity	96
6	Replacing Place	112
III	The Medium and the Message
7	The Medium Is the Memory	130
8	Hypertext as Collage-Writing	150
9	What Is Digital Cinema?	172
IV	The World and the Screen
10	"We Could Be Better Ancestors Than This": Ethics and First Principles for the Art of the Digital Age	198
11	Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation	214
	Notes	236
	Recommended Readings in New Media Theory	270
	Index	284

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Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2005

Author: David Schneider

Based on the newest version of Microsoft's VB. NET, this revision of Schneider's best-selling guide is designed for readers with no prior computer programming experience. The author uses Visual Basic .NET 2005 to explore the fundamentals of programming, building a strong foundation that will give students a sustainable understanding of programming. Offers a broad range of examples, case studies, exercises, and programming projects to give readers significant hands-on experience. Includes a new section on Graphics. Provides fully updated example text and data, including tax codes, social security forms/data, baseball statistics, and more. Contains all new, robust, interesting programming projects. Updates screenshots throughout using Windows XP. Bundles Visual Basic .NET Express automatically with each copy of the text. A useful reference for both beginning and experienced programmers who want to learn more about the latest version of Microsoft's VB. NET.

Keyboarding Word Processing Lessons 1 60 or Designing Geodatabases

Keyboarding & Word Processing, Lessons 1-60

Author: Susie H VanHuss

Focus on the keyboarding and formatting skills most important for career success! KEYBOARDING AND WORD PROCESSING 17E, LESSONS 1-60, uses proven techniques to guide users from the basics of new-key learning to business documents using the commands of Microsoft® Word 2007. Lessons are clearly focuses on needs with skill building, communication skills, proofreading activities, and document formatting. Lessons 1-25 concentrate on developing keyboarding skill by learning the alphabetic keyboarding, top-row numbers, symbols, and the numeric keypad. Lessons 26-60 teach the basics of document and word processing formats including block and modified block letters, memos, e-mails, tables, review and edit documents, and graphics and newsletters.

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Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling

Author: Michael Zeiler

This guide to creating a dynamic GIS data model helps database managers design a schema that has comprehensive and descriptive query definitions, a user-friendly cartographic display, and increased performance standards. The five steps for taking a data model through its conceptual, logical, and physical phases, including modeling the user’s view, defining objects and relationships, selecting geographic representations, matching geodatabase elements, and organizing the geodatabase structure are studied in detail. A look at nine decision points that deal with concerns common to all data modeling exercises, such as validating feature geometries, modeling linear networks, managing raster data, and labeling map features help database managers fine-tune their GIS data models. Several design models for a variety of applications are considered including addresses and locations, census units and boundaries, stream and river networks, and topography and the base map.

Table of Contents:

	Companion Web site for ArcGIS data models
Ch. 1	Geodatabase design	2
Ch. 2	Streams and river networks	36
Ch. 3	Census units and boundaries	86
Ch. 4	Addresses and locations	126
Ch. 5	Parcels and the cadastre	166
Ch. 6	Surveying federal lands	220
Ch. 7	Using raster data	280
Ch. 8	Cartography and the base map	306
Ch. 9	Building geodatabases	374