The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll
find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008 guides you through
Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book
will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes
only the most basic knowledge of VB 2008. The book provides exhaustive
coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the
most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web
page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages,
you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of
key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be
effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding
techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you
off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the
beginning–rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.
By the time you’ve finished the book, you will have mastered the core
techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a
professional ASP.NET developer.

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Software tools are a great aid to process engineers, but too much
dependence on such tools can often lead to inappropriate and suboptimal
designs. Reliance on software is also a hindrance without a firm
understanding of the principles underlying its operation, since users
are still responsible for devising the design. In Process Engineering
and Design Using Visual Basic, Arun K. Datta provides a unique and
versatile suite of programs along with simultaneous development of the
underlying concepts, principles, and mathematics. Each chapter details
the theory and techniques that provide the basis for design and
engineering software and then showcases the development and utility of
programs developed using the material outlined in the chapter. This
all-inclusive guide works systematically from basic mathematics to fluid
mechanics, separators, overpressure protection, and glycol dehydration,
providing basic design guidelines based on international codes. Worked
examples demonstrate the utility of each program, while the author also
explains problems and limitations associated with the simulations. After
reading this book you will be able to immediately put these programs
into action and have total confidence in the result, regardless of your
level of experience

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The Complete Reference to Professional SOA with Visual Studio 2005 (C# &
VB 2005) focuses on architecting and constructing enterprise-level
systems. Taking advantage of the newly released Visual Studio 2005
development environment, the book assesses the current service-oriented
platform and examines new ways to develop for scalability, availability,
and security (which have become available with .NET 2.0). You’ll get to
look closely at application infrastructure in terms of flexibility,
interoperability, and integration, as well as the decisions that have to
be made to achieve optimum balance within your architecture.

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Whatever your situation, one thing is certain: you will always know what
you want to do, but not necessarily how best to do it. This book has
been written to help you through those difficult decisions and is an
invaluable companion when tackling a wide range of Visual Basic 2005
problems. Mastering .NET development is as much about understanding the
functionality of the .NET Framework as it is about the syntax and
grammar of your chosen language. Visual Basic 2005 Recipes: A
Problem-Solution Approach recognizes this fine balance. This book meets
your need for fast, effective solutions to the difficulties you
encounter in your coding projects. The recipes have been chosen with
professional developers in mind and feature a careful balance of code
and text–the code gives you everything you need to solve the problem at
hand, while the accompanying text carefully explains how it solves your
problem and, more importantly, why it works the way it does.

What you’ll learn:

- Learn solutions to the most common development problems that real
people meet in the field day-to-day.
- Understand how to use the .NET 2.0 namespaces to your best
advantage.
- Examine coding issues from a Visual Basic perspective, including VB
features such as the “My” namespace often neglected in C#-centric texts.
- Find answers to everything from application domains to XML
processing, passing through graphics, database access, and security
along the way!
- Learn about Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which is a feature of
the new release of Visual Studio scheduled for release in 2007.

Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone who uses Visual Basic 2005. If you’ve ever
stopped midline and wondered how you’re going to finish the expression,
or found yourself struggling with a complex piece of logic while
wondering if you’re reinventing the .NET wheel, this book is for you. It
provides the succinct nuggets of information that you need to get the
job done.

Related Titles:
Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Second Edition LINQ for VB 2005

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- This book is a single reference that’s indispensable for Excel
beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users
everywhere
- Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides
comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel
tips, tricks, and techniques readers won’t find anywhere else
- John Walkenbach, aka “Mr. Spreadsheet,” is one of the world’s
leading authorities on Excel
- Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file
formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and
upgraded collaboration features.

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Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in VB 2005 is the
third edition of Scot Hillier’s market-leading SharePoint book. The new
version includes extensive updates from the previous editions, with a
complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and its integration with the 2007
Microsoft Office System. This edition also features new approaches for
using SharePoint to improve business efficiency, plus new workflow
solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, as well as a brand new chapter on
building a SharePoint solution from start to finish. With this book,
you’ll gain intermediate-level guidance to design and deploy business
solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 technologies. And Hillier
carefully defines the business cases and scenarios for these new
technologies. He reviews the installation, configuration, and
administration of business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint
technologies, and provides programming instruction, guidance, and
examples for custom web parts and solutions.

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* This comprehensive book offers readers everything they need to make
the transition to the newest version of the world’s most popular
programming language
* Coverage provides detailed information on how to use VB 2005 in the
ever-expanding .NET world using both essential explanations of the
topics and key code demonstrations
* Shows developers how to build everything from traditional console
applications to ASP.NET applications and XML Web Services so they can
take their abilities to new levels
* Addresses such issues as security, data access (ADO.NET), and the
latest Visual Studio .NET IDE, as well as in-depth coverage of the .NET
3.0 Framework
* Discusses CLR (Common Language Runtime), variables and data types,
object syntax introduction, inheritance and interfaces, applying objects
and components, and error handling and debugging

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- Visual Basic, one of the most popular programming languages today
with more than 6 million developers, has released the 2005 version,
which continues to expand on the functionality and flexibility of its
framework-.NET 3.0
- Covering Visual Basic .NET 2005 programming in a Windows environment
as well as accessing SQL Server Express 2005 and Web Services, this book
allows intermediate-level programmers to get up to speed quickly with
complete sample projects that can be modified and used in the real world
- In addition to the ready-to-use projects for their own applications
with little or no modifications, programmers will also learn some of the
more advanced features of Windows programming
- Some of the featured projects include desktop weather, password
keeper, application registry manager, event log and trace writing, event
log service, multi-threaded note pad, note pad printing, and custom
controls textbox

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Visual Basic® 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer’s Reference With this
completely up-to-date tutorial and reference, you’ll quickly learn how
to develop Visual Basic (VB) programs that leverage the latest features
of Vista and .NET 3.0. The tutorial section walks you through VB.NET
from scratch, providing you with in-depth descriptions of the
development environment, basic program syntax, and standard controls.
You’ll also explore the fundamental concepts in object-oriented
programming with VB. In the comprehensive reference section, you’ll find
out how to take advantage of specific VB features. Expert Rod Stephens
shows you how to draw images, use GDI+ routines, and generate printed
output. You’ll also discover how to build an application that interacts
with its environment, save and load data in external sources, and use
standard dialog controls. This approach makes it easier than ever to
learn this powerful language and create your own dynamic programs. What
you will learn from this book:

* The best methods for mastering the new features of VB.NET
* Steps for implementing custom controls and drag and drop
* Ways to use trickier class issues such as private class scope,
declaring events, and shared variables and methods
* Strategies for creating new classes designed to work with specific
data types
* How to define an interface using XAML
* Techniques for building service-oriented applications using the
Windows® Communication Foundation (WCF)

Who this book is for This book is for programmers at all levels who
are either looking to learn Visual Basic .NET or have already mastered
it and want some useful tips, tricks, and language details. Wrox
Programmer’s References are designed to give the experienced developer
straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary
explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical
examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.

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Accelerated VB 2005 provides the fastest path to VB expertise for anyone already
familiar with object-oriented programming. While books introduce VB, very few
also explain optimizing its use with the .NET common language runtime (CLR). But
this book both teaches core VB language concepts and covers in depth the concepts
and techniques for professionally exploiting the power of VB and the CLR.

You’ll quickly master VB syntax while learning how the CLR simplifies many
programming tasks. You’ll also learn best practices that ensure your code
will be efficient, reusable, and robust. Why spend many months or years
discovering the best ways to design and code VB, when this book will show
you how to do things the right way, right from the start?

* You’ll quickly gain thorough understanding of VB 2005.
* This book covers the all new features of VB 2005.
* Authors Guy Fouché and Trey Nash describe and explain VB best practices.
* The book presents canonical forms for VB classes and interfaces.
* Examples demonstrate bullet-proof, exception-safe code and efficient
multithreaded applications.

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