Easy-to-follow lessons and training videos for learning HTML5
HTML is the core technology for building web sites; the latest version opens the door to new levels of rich content and dynamic interactivity. This easy-to-follow book-and-DVD package is an ideal introduction to HTML5. Featuring straightforward lessons and...
Skip the basics and delve right into Visual Studio 2017 advanced features and tools
Professional Visual Studio 2017 is the industry-favorite guide to getting the most out of Microsoft's primary programming technology. From touring the new UI to exploiting advanced functionality, this book is designed to help...
Build effective user interfaces with Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is included with the Windows operating system and provides a programming model for building applications that provide a clear separation between the UI and business logic. Written by a leading expert on Microsoft...
I FIRST STARTED PLAYING WITH THE ANDROID SDK before it was offi cially released as version 1.0.
Back then, the tools were unpolished, the APIs in the SDK were unstable, and the documentation
was sparse. Fast-forward three and a half years, Android is now a formidable mobile operating
system, with a following no less impressive than...
THE MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS intelligence tool in the Microsoft Swiss Army knife of tools is SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This is because the other tools would be nothing without the cleansing and movement of data into a presentable format. The product can extract, transform, and load (ETL) data astonishingly fast. A 2010 benchmark...
The most important thing we have to tell you is the same as in the first edition: You will
get as much out of this book as you put into it. If you read this book cover to cover, you will learn
something, but not nearly as much as you would if you take some time trying to work through the
problems before you read the answers.
...
OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS I’VE WRITTEN 18 BOOKS on various programming topics. You might wonder,
why so many…? Didn’t I get it right the fi rst time? Well, no, I didn’t…not really. When I wrote
my fi rst book more than 30 years ago, object-oriented programming (OOP) was obscure at best
and unknown to...
The addition of Crystal Reports 9.0 to Visual Studio .NET 2003 offers developers a reporting tool that allows you to turn almost any data into interactive, dynamic content through portals, wireless devices, and Microsoft Office documents. This code-intensive guide takes you step by step through developing reports and incorporating them into...
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a standard for Web site presentation that allows Web developers to define styles for all the visual aspects of a Web document. This example-packed book provides you with necessary information that will enable you to combine CSS with HTML, XHTML, or XML to create rich, aesthetically powerful designs.
A comprehensive guide to programming for Access 2010 and 2007
Millions of people use the Access database applications, and hundreds of thousands of developers work with Access daily. Access 2010 brings better integration with SQL Server and enhanced XML support; this Wrox guide shows developers how to take advantage of these...
Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition
Focusing on the best-practices aspect of web development, this full-color book is revised to reflect the changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published. Featuring examples from real-world web sites, each chapter provides...
The ASP.NET MVC framework is designed from the ground up with certain core principles in mind-extensibility, testability, and separation of concerns. The framework adds various conventions into the mix to help drive developers into the "Pit of Success," providing for a streamlined development experience that fits the way the web works....
