You can hardly pick up a technical magazine, developer conference brochure, or corporate IT strategy document without seeing a reference to Web services. So what is all the hype about? Simply put, Web services allow developers to create unrestricted applications—applications that span different operating systems,...

Welcome to the Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking, a survey of computer networking concepts, technologies, and services. This work is intended to be a comprehensive, accurate, and timely resource for students, system engineers, network administrators, IT implementers, and computing professionals from all walks of life. Before I outline its...

This guide helps you to design, build, and configure hack-resilient Web applications. These are applications that reduce the likelihood of successful attacks and mitigate the extent of damage should an attack occur. This guide uses a three-layered approach: securing the network, securing the host, and securing the application. This guide...

Learn how to install, configure and troubleshoot SQL Server 2000—and prepare for the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through the lessons and hands-on exercises. And use the special exam-prep section and testing tool to measure what you know and where to focus...

One of the most interesting aspects of the industry we work in is the pace at which it evolves. Having software and computer technology progress so rapidly is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing for some obvious reasons: constantly improving tools can help us write faster and more powerful software, the rapid change can lead to...

This comprehensive administrator’s reference delivers the details you need to successfully deploy, manage, and support Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003. The authors, experts in Microsoft operating systems and server technologies, provide easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics for...

Building Interoperable Web Services: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 is intended to help software architects and developers design and code Web services that are interoperable. We emphasize “interoperable,” because we assume that you already understand how to implement a Web service. Our goal is to show you how to ensure that your...

Learn essential security techniques for designing, developing, and deploying applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Michael Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance—covering application design,...

C# is a modern, object-oriented...