Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions provides extensive coverage of ADO.NET technology including ADO.NET internals, namespaces, classes, and interfaces. Where most books cover only SQL and OLE DB data providers, Mahesh Chand and David Talbot cover SQL, OLE DB, ODBC data providers and the latest additions to ADO.NET:...

As the first pure language of the content engineering era, Network Query Language (NQL) is the ultimate tool for rapid and simple development of intelligent agents, bots, spiders, middleware, and scalable business-to-business content aggregation...

THE WINDOWS INTERFACE GUIDELINES FOR SOFTWARE DESIGN is an essential handbook for all programmers and designers working with the latest release of Windows, regardless of experience level or development tools used. This book covers the basic principles of...

Whether you're new to Delphi or just making the move from an earlier version, Mastering Delphi 7 is the one resource you can't do without. Practical, tutorial-based coverage helps you master essential techniques in database, client-server, and Internet programming. And the insights of renowned authority Marco Cantú give you...

COM+ has gone through many evolutions since the introduction of OLE technology in the early releases of Microsoft Windows. The alphabet soup of OLE,...

The message of this book is that building stored procedures in Transact-SQL is very much like building programs in any other...

This book has all the earmarks of a series designed in-house. This is a bad thing. It means the book contains elements that obviously are the result of compromises made by people sitting through endless meetings and eventually settling on the...

Do you consider yourself to be an “idiot” or a “dummy”? I certainly hope not! So why do some programming books treat you as if you are? They start from scratch and explain in excruciating detail how to make comments, declare variables, and build For loops. That may make sense if you’ve never programmed before,...