Over the last few years, I've found an abundance of books that answer the question, "What can I do when administering Internet Information Server?" But I have yet to find a book that answers the more pertinent question: "What should I do when administering Internet Information Services?" This is the...

The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 are the latest technologies for building flexible user interfaces (UI) for applications built with Microsoft technology. All three rely on the XAML markup language to describe UI elements and layout, and you can program applications for all three platforms with...

Opening with the first and most basic elements of computer graphics, the book rapidly advances into progressively more complex concepts. Each of the elements,...

Donald Lobo, Michal Mach, and I started CiviCRM almost six years ago. Back then, open source software had gained traction in the operating system arena, but the idea of an open source application designed from the ground up to meet the needs of non-profits and other civic sector organizations was pretty radical. We were convinced that there...

Discover how to create exciting and challenging games for the Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio 4.0 and the Visual C# programming language. XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers provides experienced game developers with a comprehensive overview of the XNA Framework, providing all the tools,...

This book will address the advances, applications, research results, and emerging areas of optics, photonics, computational approaches, nano-photonics, bio-photonics, with applications in information systems. The objectives are to bring together novel approaches, analysis, models, and technologies that enhance sensing, measurement,...

The setting and attainment of goals is a fundamental aspect of human decision making, which is manifest in the modern discipline of operational research by the technique of goal programming. Influences from the fields of mathematical programming and multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) can be found in goal programming, and it is...

Images are all around us. We see them in color and in high resolution. In fact, the natural images we see with our eyes seem perfectly smooth, with no jagged edges and no graininess. Computer graphics, on the other hand, deals with images that consist of small dots, pixels. When we first hear of this feature of computer graphics, we...

Over the years as power costs have soared and data center space has become scarce and expensive to acquire, enterprises and small businesses have been looking for ways to decrease their data center footprints as well as reduce the overall costs of operating an IT infrastructure. As the number of different applications being deployed in...

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Welcome to the world of CRM! This chapter introduces you to the concepts of customer relationship management (CRM) without getting into many of the specifics about Dynamics CRM. If you are a long-time Dynamics CRM administrator, then you can focus on the XRM section of this chapter. If you have administered or used other CRM...