Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on Excel 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don’t break the flow of the quick steps themselves.

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Written By: John Cronan

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos) takes a satirical look at the increasingly-hyped extreme programming (XP) methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach quotes such as, “XPers are not afraid of oral documentation,” “Schedule is the customer's problem,” “Dependencies ...

Manufacturer: Apress
Written By: Doug Rosenberg, Matt Stephens

Beginning VB 2008 Databases teaches you everything you need to know about relational databases, SQL, and ADO.NET 2.0, giving you a sound start in developing console and Windows database applications. The book also includes chapters on the SQL Server XML data type and the LINQ enhancements to the next version of Visual Basic. In addition to teaching you database basics like using ...

Manufacturer: Apress
Written By: Vidya Vrat Agarwal, James Huddleston

Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition is the affordable, accessible route to learning the .NET programming languages. Author Peter Wright proved his ability to teach Visual Basic to over 100,000 aspiring programmers during the 1990s with his line of best–sellers. Now that Microsoft is launching its new Express products, Wright is repeating his mission to teach ...

Manufacturer: Apress
Written By: Peter Wright

MSH is a new command-line shell for Microsoft server products, including the long-awaited Longhorn server, and will eventually ship with all major Microsoft products, making it the must-know technologyMSH will replace current command lines in new Microsoft products and can be used to write shell scripts similar to those used with Unix and LinuxDiscusses how MSH enables all of the ...

Manufacturer: Wrox
Written By: Andrew Watt

Pro Visual C++ 2005 for C# Developers features two distinct sections that lead to a simple migration path for you to move toward Visual C++ 2005 development. If you’re an experienced developer approaching Visual C++ from a C# background with .NET 1.1 or 1.0, you’ll greatly benefit from this book. The first section introduces the Visual C++ 2005 technology, then outlines the language ...

Manufacturer: Apress
Written By: Dean C. Wills

With all the attention paid recently to Web services, many developers dont realize that the true successor to DCOM is actually .NET Remoting. And what an improvement it is! Advanced .NET Remoting in VB .NET is the Visual Basic edition of Ingo Rammer's bestselling Advanced .NET Remoting (C# edition). This book offers in-depth coverage of the .NET ...

Manufacturer: Apress
Written By: Ingo Rammer

A comprehensive collection of benchmarks for measuring dependability in hardware-software systemsAs computer systems have become more complex and mission-critical, it is imperative for systems engineers and researchers to have metrics for a system's dependability, reliability, availability, and serviceability. Dependability benchmarks are useful for guiding development efforts for system ...

Manufacturer: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr
Written By: Karama Kanoun, Lisa Spainhower