FAST is Microsoft's latest intelligent search-based technology that boasts robustness and an ability to integrate business intelligence with Search. This in-depth guide provides you with advanced coverage on...

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...

Are you hesitant to migrate to Visual Studio® 2005? Maybe you're ready to upgrade to Visual Basic 2005 but feel a bit overwhelmed by ADO.NET 2.0 and the Visual Data Tools of this new release. In this hands-on guide, I'll share with you the best practices, the latest features, and advanced data management techniques with Visual...

This book is packed with quick formula and would might be quite useful as implied by the "design handbook" name. Some of the...

Geographic Information Systems and Science has become the pre-eminent textbook in its field, for students and practitioners alike. Its unique approach communicates the richness and diversity of GIS in a lucid and accessible format. This fully revised and updated second edition reinforces the view of GIS as a gateway to science and...

This book is designed primarily for Microsoft Outlook application developers using Microsoft Exchange Server. Many of the examples assume that you’ll be deploying workgroup applications in an Exchange Server environment using both public and private folders. It’s also assumed that you’ll be using Outlook 2002 to run the...