• Based on the author's experience working with front-line date access developers and development teams at Microsoft and throughout the industry worldwide
• Helps you, the developer, choose and implement the best data access technologies for your project
• Suitable for newer and for more experienced ADO...

Within these pages, you’ll learn how to create exciting new...

Ethereal offers more protocol decoding and reassembly than any free sniffer out there and ranks well among the commercial tools. You’ve all used tools like tcpdump or windump to examine individual packets, but Ethereal makes it easier to make sense of a stream of ongoing network communications. Ethereal not only makes network...

This is a technical book that will be of interest to several audiences. Technologists in charge of developing system infrastructure for distributed applications will find guidance on what the constituent parts of the Web services architecture are, how they are manifest on the wire as messages, and their interrelationships....

Deliver console-rocking sound, music, and video effects to your games with this all-in-one toolkit for C++ game programmers. From mixing and moving sounds around a 3-D space to taking video to the third dimension, you get expert insights and performance tips direct from the developers. It’s everything you need to fuel your...

Microsoft's C# language has attracted millions to .NET. Now, to make development on this platform quicker and easier, C# 2.0 offers some key changes as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2005. The C# 2.0 beta is already available, and our unique "all lab, no lecture" guide offers 50 hands-on projects to explore each...

This is a book about getting the best out of .NET. It is based on the philosophy that the best approach to writing good, high-performance, robust applications that take full advantage of the features of .NET is to understand what's going on deep under the hood. This means that there are chapters that explore the .NET internals...

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the Cisco Unity architecture and feature set

• Plan, design, and install a complete unified messaging...

OpenGL is a powerful software interface for graphics hardware that allows graphics programmers to produce high-quality color images of 3D objects. The functions in the OpenGL library enable programmers to build geometric models, view models interactively in 3D space, control color and lighting, manipulate pixels, and perform such tasks as alpha...