"Craig and Gwyn bring their insight and experience with WMI to explain how easy it is to write powerful management applications through WMI on the .NET platform."
—Andy Cheung, Microsoft WMI Test Engineer
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an impressive technology that provides, for the first time, an...
The growing interest in data mining is motivated by a common problem across disciplines: how does one store, access, model, and ultimately describe and understand very large data sets? Historically, different aspects of data mining have been addressed independently by different disciplines. This is the first truly...
Master the fundamentals of Visual Basic with Schaum'sthe high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams and projects!
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Effective, standards-based data synchronization will make possible a new generation of breakthrough mobile services. Now, there's an XML-based standard that enables synchronization across virtually any device, platform, application, or service: SyncML. In this book, four leaders of the SyncML community offer an insider's guide to SyncML from both a...
Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the most elusive, confounding, and confusing topics in data networking today. Why has such an apparently simple concept reached such dizzying heights of confusion? After all, it seems that the entire communications industry appears to be using the term with some apparent ease, and with such common...
Ruby in a Nutshell is a practical reference covering everything from Ruby syntax to the specifications of its standard class libraries. With portability and convenience in mind, I have arranged it into a concise tool that provides just the information you need while programming. Although this book is based on Ruby 1.6.5, its contents should remain...
What’s a Web application? Basically, it’s a set of publicly accessible pages bound to a well-known URL. No matter which direction Web-related technologies take in the future, this basic fact will never change. The reason is the underlying transport protocol, HTTP. If we were to change the underlying protocol, we...
This Schaum's Outline presents all the fundamental concepts of the current ANSI standard version of the C++ programming language. This is an object-oriented extension of the very popular C language, and it promises to grow in popularity. Many complete programs are included.
"...well-written and covers broad subjects related to the test of digital circuits. It will be useful for students and engineers involved in design and testing." (IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, July/August 2005)
“This is an excellent introduction to testing digital...
Microsoft .NET is an advance in programming technology that greatly simplifies application development both for traditional, proprietary applications, and for the emerging paradigm of Web-based services. .NET is a complete restructuring of Microsoft's whole system infrastructure and represents a major learning challenge for programmers developing...
Master the numerical simulation process required to design, test and support mobile and parallel computing systems. An accompanying ftp site contains all the Visual C++ based programs discussed in the text to help readers create their own programs. With its focus on problems and solutions, this is an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and...
Written by the authors of the immensely popular Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, this book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using the latest version of the Microsoft Windows operating systemall in concise, fast-answer format. Dig into the work-ready tools and resources that help you take your Windows...
