Get ready for two of the hottest new Microsoft developer exams with the MCAD/MCSD: Visual Basic .NET Windows and Web Applications Study Guide. By passing these two exams, you can fulfill one core and one elective MCAD requirement or two core MCSD requirements. Organized for optimal learning and retention, this book provides in-depth coverage of all objectives for exams 70-305 and 70-306, along with practical insights drawn from real-world experience. The accompanying CD includes hundreds of challenging review questions, electronic flashcards, and a searchable electronic version of the entire book. Developer). The Microsoft Certified Applications Developer (MCAD) is the new first-tier developer certification from Microsoft. It validates skills related to developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining individual applications. The Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) is the second-tier certification that validates skills related to analyzing and designing complex enterprise application. Here's the book you need to prepare for the Developing Web Applications (70-305) and Developing Windows-based Applications (70-306) MCAD and MCSD exams.

Most computer users think that fiddling with the insides of their PC is taboo. They fear that by removing the screws that hold the case on, they're crossing into forbidden territory. And even for those who know they can open the box and fix or upgrade their PC, analysis paralysis often stops them in their tracks:

Which upgrades offer the best bang for the buck? How do you pinpoint the faulty component that's making your system freeze? What about compatibility issues?

Get ready to get unstuck and get your PC running fast and running right. Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all: how to troubleshoot a troublesome PC, how to identify which components make sense for an upgrade, and how to tear it all down and put it back together.

This book's three parts take readers with no prior C++ knowledge all the way from basic concepts, through object-oriented programming and design techniques, to advanced C++ features and techniques. Coverage of object-oriented programming emphasizes various methods of expressing commonality and abstraction, and the advanced coverage illustrates coordination of advanced C++ by developing several interesting examples.
Like many scientists and engineers, much of our work involves writing computer programs. Recently we have been writing those programs in C++. We think that our programs are better and that we can do better science and engineering with these programs because they are written in C++. We think you should try C++, and we wrote this book to help you get started.

A text presenting specific improvements that can be made to Information Technology organizations in order to make them more efficient and to help them resolve problems quickly and effectively. Includes coverage of staffing and other human issues, better ways to create service level agreements, and much more. DLC: Electronic data processing–Management.

No matter how professional your IT organization, if you can't resolve problems quickly and effectively, you'll lose your stakeholders' confidence—and fail. Nowadays, help desk s aren't enough: companies want true service centers capable of delivering complex, strategic solutions. IT Problem Management is the first single source for building world-class problem management processes. Drawing upon his extensive consulting e xperience, Gary Walker presents specific improvements you can make to achieve breakthrough results in any help desk or service center—in-house or out-sourced. Coverage includes:

SQL (Structured Query Language) is the heart of a relational database management system. Despite SQL's long history and relative simplicity, few developers and database administrators are truly masters of the language. The syntax can be confusing, especially because each vendor enhances SQL in various ways, and each new system release brings with it new SQL statement options. Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference will keep everyone who needs to access an Oracle database using SQL–developers, DBAs, designers, and managers–ahead of the learning curve on standard SQL and Oracle's extensions to it. This single, concise reference volume will hold its own against a stack of Oracle manuals and even yield insights and examples not available in those manuals. There are chapters on basic SQL elements, Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML), common language elements, SQL functions, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, and Oracle SQL optimization and tuning. The book covers Oracle 8i, release 8.1.6.

Very few programmers know that Visual Basic is an excellent tool for creating shell extensions that more closely tie an application to the Windows shell. All of the available documentation focuses on using C++ for such shell extensions, but even C++ programmers find the task rough going, given the woefully inadequate state of the documentation. Visual Basic Shell Programming shows how to take advantage of shell services to develop such extensions. Each major type of shell extension gets attention, including customized context menu handlers, per instance icons (such as a data file icon that's based on the contents of the file), and customized property sheets. Visual Basic Shell Programming ventures where none have gone before by giving readers the know-how to develop shell extensions while at the same time providing an advanced tutorial-style treatment of COM programming with Visual Basic.

A comprehensive discussion of multiple access protocols for cellular systems and the consideration of the specific constraints and capabilities of second and third generation systems regarding the multiple access protocols.Beginning by introducing the cellular concept and discussing second and third generation cellular communication systems, including the evolution from these systems to IP-based systems, the authors then identify the requirements for and problems related to multiple access. In accordance with ETSI and 3GPP standards, a split is made into basic multiple access schemes such as CDMA, TDMA and FDMA and multiple access protocols. The pros and cons of CDMA and TDMA for third generation systems are discussed as well as medium access in GSM, GPRS and UMTS, essentially based on R-ALOHA protocols in all these systems. Data access delay and voice dropping performance is assessed and the different UTRA modes are considered.

* Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniques
* Agile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatch
* The author covers techniques for mapping objects to RDBs and for implementing concurrency control, referential integrity, shared business logic, security access control, reports, and XML

An introduction to the next generation of mobile networks, where IP data capability and mobile communications become integrated to form new, cutting-edge mobile IP networks. This resource offers an understanding of the convergence of mobile and data technology. It explains how the prospect of continuous connectivity adds a new dimension to e-business, moving it towards m-business, which promises to give users access to network services as they travel from one location to another. The volume examines the technology that enables true mobility for handheld devices, including GPRS, 3G, and the critical new protocol Mobile IP, which allows a computer to roam freely on the Internet while maintaining the same IP address. The work contains all the details needed to design a mobile data service, build a Mobile IP network, and develop mobile applications.

JavaScript lets users enrich their Web pages with interactivity, animation, and other fun and useful features that can make a site worth every click. Unlike many other books, this complete guide teaches the JavaScript language as well as how to apply it. JavaScript savant David Thau guides coders through every hurdle, covering image swaps, functions, frames, cookies, alarms, and other seemingly mysterious JavaScript capacities with ease. Both reference and tutorial, each chapter addresses a particular function with a real-world example and an appropriate lesson. Readers try their hand and then see how the author coded it. Chapter by chapter, they acquire a range of skills including how to make a Web site remember a visitor's name and preferences. An accompanying CD-ROM includes the entire book, several bonus chapters, and all the coding in the examples.

This revised and updated edition of a bestseller shows developers how to optimize their applications for desktop and client/server databases, write queries in ANSI SQL and Access SQL with Visual Basic code, and create front-end databases using MIDI forms. "Disk contains a data dictionary application, cross tab query generator, multiform graphical front end, and DDE and OLE applications with Excel 5. Provides in-depth coverage of networking issues surrounding databases . Explains how to use third-party, da". Covers Latest Version for Windows. – HOWARD W SAMS & CO

Aleister Crowley was among the first Europeans to study, practice and teach Yoga. These lectures set forth some of Crowley's conclusions after a lifelong philosophical investigation. The first series of lectures is entitled 'Yoga for Yahoos.' The elements of Yoga are introduced, examined and demystified with a view to extracting the practical essence of Yoga doctrine. Yoga is also correlated with astrology and the Qabalah.

This book presents a rather small and general guide and workbook for writing resumes, for people of ALL ages and ALL walks of life. There is no mention at all, NONE, in the text, of older job seekers and no specific information provided that could be considered pertinent to this topic. In fact, mention IS made of recent graduates! Nevertheless, most of the book consists of various sample resumes and sample cover letters. The only thing that remotely makes this topical is that many of the sample resumes show work histories dating back to the 1970s and even as far back as the 1950s.

A comprehensive guide to managing global financial risk. From the balance of payment exposure to foreign exchange and interest rate risk, to credit derivatives and other exotic options, futures, and swaps for mitigating and transferring risk, this book provides a simple yet comprehensive analysis of complex derivatives pricing and their application in risk management. The risk posed by foreign exchange transactions stems from the volatility of the exchange rate, the volatility of the interest rates, and factors unique to individual companies which are interrelated. To protect and hedge against adverse currency and interest rate changes, multinational corporations need to take concrete steps for mitigating these risks.

Using a combination of graphic and textual elements, this text quickly introduces a non-programmer, or a programmer new to Internet development, to the basics of object-oriented Visual Basic application building for the desktop and the Internet.