Pro .NET Best Practices is a practical reference to the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. You will learn standards, techniques, and conventions that are sharply focused, realistic and helpful for achieving results, steering clear of unproven, idealistic, and impractical...

This cookbook is full of practical and easily applicable recipes that will teach the user how to understand and unleash the full capabilities of the new dashboard features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Starting with basic tasks to build user confidence and general knowledge, the chapters provide insight with helpful tips and related...

Congratulations! You’re on Mars Base Alpha, the first human outpost on the red planet. Don’t relax, though. It’s not all roses and unicorns up here. Mars isn’t called "The Bringer of War" for nothing! You’ve just been rained on by a meteor shower and it’s up to you—you!—to put your...

Five years ago, we extended the world’s leading product for individual developers, Microsoft Visual Studio, into Visual Studio Team System, and it quickly became the world’s leading product for development teams. This addition of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to Visual Studio made life easier and more...

Penetration testing is one of the core aspects of network security in today's scenario. It involves a complete analysis of the system by implementing real-life security tests. It helps in identifying potential weaknesses in the system's major components which can occur either in its hardware or software. The reason which makes...