Programming ASP.NET AJAX: Build rich, Web 2.0-style UI with ASP.NET AJAX

Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time.

Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but for any web developers interested in ASP.NET AJAX, no matter what technology they use currently. That includes JavaScript programmers who would like to avoid the headaches of writing cross-browser code.

Programming ASP.NET AJAX offers you:

• A high-level overview of the ASP.NET AJAX framework
• Functional code that you can cut and paste for use in your own applications
• The essentials of JavaScript and Ajax to help you understand individual technologies used by the framework
• An organization that reflects the framework's packages, including Extensions, Control Toolkit, the Futures CTP, and the AJAX Library
• Sidebars throughout the book that identify and propose solutions to potential security breaches
• Ways to use the standards-based AJAX Library with other platforms, such as PHP
• A complete chapter on the UpdatePanel control for making individual parts of a web page independently updateable — one of the framework's most important elements

Released previously as Programming Atlas to cover the beta version of the Microsoft framework, this edition is fully up-to-date and expanded for the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX. Written by Christian Wenz — Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and AJAX Control Toolkit Contributor — Programming ASP.NET AJAX contains many hard-to-find details, along with a few unofficial ways to accomplish things.

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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008 guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of VB 2008.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the beginning–rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

By the time you’ve finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

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Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB

Learn how to build impressive ASP.NET 2.0 Websites in both C# and VB from scratch.

Using a practical step-by-step approach, the authors introduce the ASP.NET framework, teach you about database design, and walk you through obtaining, installing and configuring all the freely available software you need to use ASP.NET 2.0. They then show you how to build several real world Web-based applications that you can put to use instantly in your projects.

Readers will learn how to:

Develop a fully functional Corporate Intranet with a dynamic navigation menu

Create an email newsletter system using ASP.NET 2.0

Build web forms using web controls, validation controls, and rich controls

Program in both C# and VB

Handle unforseen errors gracefully using a range of error handling techniques

Secure applications using form authentication

Use code-behind to streamline code.

This book doesn't force you to choose an ASP.NET language in advance - all code examples are presented in both C# (pronounced see-sharp) and VB. You can choose which one you want to use, and follow-it throughout the book. Best of all, this book doesn't assume any prior programming knowledge!

As an added bonus, this book doesn't force you to choose an ASP.NET language in advance - all code examples are presented in both C# (pronounced see-sharp) and VB.NET. You can choose which one you want to use, and follow-it throughout the book. Best of all, this book doesn't assume any prior ASP.NET knowledge!

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Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated Programming

The deep integration of IIS 7 and ASP.NET provides both IIS 7 administrators and ASP.NET Developers with new and exciting programming tools, techniques, and approaches that were not possible with earlier versions of IIS. With this book, Dr. Shahram Khosravi presents you with the only resource to focus exclusively on the key features of this exciting integration.

Packed with detailed code walkthroughs and in-depth analyses of numerous real-world examples—all written and tested with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008)—this book provides in-depth coverage of all the major systems that make up the IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated infrastructure to help you gain the skills, knowledge, and experience you need to use them in your own applications and extend them to meet the requirements of your application.

What you will learn from this book

• How to write integrated IIS 7 and ASP.NET code that works with Windows Vista®, Windows Server® 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, and ASP.NET 3.5 (Visual Studio® 2008)

• Tips for writing and plugging custom HTTP modules, handlers, and handler factories into the IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated request processing pipeline

• How to manage the IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated configuration system from IIS 7 Manager, appcmd.exe, and managed code

• Tips for implementing custom configuration sections in declarative fashion

• How to use and extend the IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated managed code API how to implement and plug new graphical components into IIS 7 Manager

• Techniques for implementing custom provider-based services, which are configurable from a configuration file, IIS 7 Manager, and managed code

• Ways to use the IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated tracing and diagnostics

• ASP.NET and Windows Communication Foundation integration in IIS 7

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Building A Web 2.0.Portal With ASP NET 3.5 - O’Reilly

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures — not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises. Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at "www.dropthings.com"), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved. You learn how to: Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendlyweb services Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users Deploy and run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.


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ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies

ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies is an all new version of the popular title that makes it easy for beginners to create dynamic, data-driven Web applications on the Microsoft platform. Wherever possible the book minimizes the amount of code you write by harnessing powerful design-time tools built into Visual Web Developer 2008 and its free version, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. Where coding is required, the author walks you through the details using familiar concepts from everyday life. The book includes many examples of "geekspeak" terminology so you'll feel comfortable in a conversation with professional ASP.NET programmers.

ASP.NET developers will benefit as well because the book integrates the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 into the text and sample code. These include LINQ queries, ASP.NET AJAX, extension methods, Silverlight, and the new ListView control.

Using realistic examples in VB, you learn to create pages that incorporate the major ASP.NET controls and features.

Coverage includes:

• Microsoft's technologies for dynamic Web content
• Installing and using Visual Web Developer 2008 (Express)
• SQL Server Express and handling database tasks
• Generating ASP.NET pages based on a database
• Inserting, sorting, editing, and deleting data
• The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and the AJAX Control Toolkit
• Understanding LINQ syntax including From, Where, and Select
• Filtering data with the LinqDataSource control
• Creating interfaces with the ListView control
• RSS and the XmlDataSource control
• Master pages, style sheets, themes, skins, and dynamic effects
• Building a sitemap and connecting navigation controls
• Security, authentication, and data validation
• E-commerce shopping cart
• Rooting out bugs and handling errors
• compilation and deployment

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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

It adopts a “zero to hero” approach that concentrates on achieving practical results you can use in real projects rather than presenting a deep academic treatment that can’t be immediately applied.

The aim is to give you, the reader, the knowledge you need to achieve the results you want with the minimum of fuss. When you’ve read this book, you’ll have a solid understand of all the techniques that are available, when to use them, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

What you’ll learn

• Create next–generation web applications quickly and easily!
• Manipulate data, display information, and communicate with other services using the latest ASP.NET techniques and best practices.
• Discover how the .NET 3.0 extensions (WPF, WCF, and WF) can make your web applications faster, more efficient, and easier to code than ever.
• Understand how ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight can be integrated into your ASP.NET websites in order to provide a cutting–edge user interface for your applications and the implications that such interfaces can have.

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Professional ASP .NET 2.0 XML (with source code)

This book is aimed at intermediate or experienced programmers who have started on their journey toward ASP.NET development and who are already familiar with XML. While I do introduce the reader to many new ASP.NET 2.0 concepts in Chapter 2, this book is not intended as a first port of call for the developer looking at ASP.NET, since there are already many books and articles covering this area. Instead, I cut straight to the heart of using XML within ASP.NET Web applications. To get the most out of the book, you will have some basic knowledge of C#. All the code examples will be explained in C#.

In a similar vein, there are many books and articles that cover the XML technologies that you will need to use this book. I assume a general knowledge of XML, namespaces, and XSLT, and a basic understanding of XML schemas.

This book explores the array of XML features and how they can be used in ASP.NET for developing Web applications. XML is everywhere in the NET Framework, from serialization to Web services, and from data access to configuration. In the first part of this book, you’ll find in-depth coverage of the key classes that implement XML in the .NET platform. Readers and writers, validation, schemas, and XML DOM are discussed with ASP.NET samples and reference information. Next the book moves on to XPath and XSL Transformations (XSLT), XML support in ADO.NET and the use of XML for data display.

The final part of this book focuses on SQL Server 2005 XML Features, XML Serialization, XML Web services, and touches on XML based configuration files and its XML extensions. You’ll also find a couple of case studies on the use of XML related features of ASP.NET and Web services that provide you with a real life example on how to leverage these features.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introduction to XML
Chapter 02 - Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0
Chapter 03 - XML Classes in the .NET Framework
Chapter 04 - Reading and Writing XML Data Using XmlReader and XmlWriter
Chapter 05 - XML Data Validation
Chapter 06 - XML DOM Object Model
Chapter 07 - Transforming XML Data with XSLT
Chapter 08 - XML and ADO.NET
Chapter 09 - XML Data Display
Chapter 10 - SQL Server 2005 XML Integration
Chapter 11 - Building an Airline Reservation System Using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005
Chapter 12 - XML Serialization
Chapter 13 - XML Web Services
Chapter 14 - ASP.NET 2.0 Configuration
Chapter 15 - Building a ShoppingAssistant Using XML Web Services

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Building Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with this framework. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ, and .NET 3.5, along with ASP.NET 3.5 — sites that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures.

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures — not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprise.

Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.

You learn how to:

• Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model
• Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer
• Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows
• Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching
• Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites
• Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendly web services
• Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive
• Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users
• Deploy and run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (with source code)

ASP.NETallows web sites to display unique pages for each visitor rather than show the same static HTML pages. The release of ASP.NET 2.0 is a revolutionary leap forward in the area of web application development. It brings with it a wealth of new and exciting built-in functions that reduce the amount of code you'll need to write for even the most common applications.

With more than 50 new server controls, the number of classes inside ASP.NET 2.0 has more than doubled, and in many cases, the changes in this new version are dramatic. This book will alert you to every new feature and capability that ASP.NET 2.0 provides so that you'll be prepared to put these new technologies into action. Greatly expanded from the original best-selling Professional ASP.NET 2.0, this new special edition adds hundreds of pages of new coverage of advanced and new techniques relating to data and data sources, the provider model, personalization, membership, role management, localization, configuration, migration, and Altas.

This book is for experienced programmers and developers who are looking to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Hello ASP.NET 2.0!
Chapter 02 - Visual Studio 2005
Chapter 03 - Application and Page Frameworks
Chapter 04 - ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts
Chapter 05 - ASP.NET Web Server Controls
Chapter 06 - ASP.NET 2.0 Web Server Controls
Chapter 07 - Validation Server Controls
Chapter 08 - Working with Master Pages
Chapter 09 - Themes and Skins
Chapter 10 - Collections and Lists
Chapter 11 - Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
Chapter 12 - Data Management with ADO.NET
Chapter 13 - Working with XML
Chapter 14 - Introduction to the Provider Model
Chapter 15 - Extending the Provider Model
Chapter 16 - Site Navigation
Chapter 17 - Personalization
Chapter 18 - Membership and Role Management
Chapter 19 - Portal Frameworks and Web Parts
Chapter 20 - Security
Chapter 21 - State Management
Chapter 22 - Caching
Chapter 23 - Debugging and Error Handling Techniques
Chapter 24 - File I/O and Streams
Chapter 25 - User and Server Controls
Chapter 26 - Modules and Handlers
Chapter 27 - Using Business Objects
Chapter 28 - Mobile Development
Chapter 29 - Building and Consuming XML Web Services
Chapter 30 - Localization
Chapter 31 - Configuration
Chapter 32 - Instrumentation
Chapter 33 - Administration and Management
Chapter 34 - Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET applications
Appendix A - Visual Basic 8.0 and C# 2.0 Language Enhancements
Appendix B - Migrating ASP.NET 1.x Projects
Appendix C - Using Atlas
Appendix D - ASP.NET Online Resources

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Programming ASP.NET AJAX: Using ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript Extensions

Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time.

Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but for any web developers interested in ASP.NET AJAX, no matter what technology they use currently. That includes JavaScript programmers who would like to avoid the headaches of writing cross-browser code.

Programming ASP.NET AJAX offers you:

• A high-level overview of the ASP.NET AJAX framework
• Functional code that you can cut and paste for use in your own applications
• The essentials of JavaScript and Ajax to help you understand individual technologies used by the framework
• An organization that reflects the framework's packages, including Extensions, Control Toolkit, the Futures CTP, and the AJAX Library
• Sidebars throughout the book that identify and propose solutions to potential security breaches
• Ways to use the standards-based AJAX Library with other platforms, such as PHP
• A complete chapter on the UpdatePanel control for making individual parts of a web page independently updateable — one of the framework's most important elements

Released previously as Programming Atlas to cover the beta version of the Microsoft framework, this edition is fully up-to-date and expanded for the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX. Written by Christian Wenz — Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and AJAX Control Toolkit Contributor — Programming ASP.NET AJAX contains many hard-to-find details, along with a few unofficial ways to accomplish things.

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ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming (with source code)

Let me state up front that this isn't a book for completely novice programmers, or for experienced developers that have never touched ASP.NET and the .NET Framework in general. This book teaches how to write a real-world web site from scratch to deployment, and as such it can't explain every single detail of the technology, but must concentrate on designing and writing actual solutions. To comfortably read this book, you should already have had some experience with ASP.NET 1.x, even if not advanced solutions. You're not required to know ASP.NET 2.0, as each chapter will introduce the new controls and features that you'll use in that chapter, providing enough background information to implement the solution.

This book aimed at describing, designing, and implementing a site much like the ones you’re probably working on or will be soon, while taking the opportunity to introduce and explain many of the new features that the new great ASP.NET 2.0 framework offers. Difficult problems are addressed head-on so you'll be ready for most of the problems you’ll typically face when writing a modern website, and have one or more solutions ready for them.

Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense. The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization.

This book is basically a large case study that starts from the foundation and works its way through to completion with a series of designs and solutions for each incremental step

along the way. What sets the Problem-Design-Solution series apart from other Wrox series is the structure of the book and the start-to-finish approach to one completed project. Not only does this book cover the new features of ASP.NET 2.0, it also demonstrates how to integrate all of them together, for the development of a single full-featured site. All the design options are explained and discussed (including the database design, the data access and business logic components design, and the overall site architecture); at the end of the book you will have learned many of the best practices for web development, based on a solid, scalable, and extensible architecture.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introducing the Project: TheBeerHouse
Chapter 02 - Developing the Site Design
Chapter 03 - Planning an Architecture
Chapter 04 - Membership and User Profiling
Chapter 05 - News and Article Management
Chapter 06 - Opinion Polls
Chapter 07 - Newsletters
Chapter 08 - Forums
Chapter 09 - E-Commerce Store
Chapter 10 - Personalization and Web Parts
Chapter 11 - Localizing the Site
Chapter 12 - Deploying the Site

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ASP.NET 2.0 Everyday Apps For Dummies

Create a shopping cart, online store, and Web forum, or set up a blog

ASP.NET 2.0 is a functional programming tool, so why not discover how to use it by actually creating something functional? These aren’t useless “Hello World” type examples - you’ll build secure e-commerce, community, and back-end applications right from the start. Even before you’ve finished this hands-on guide, you’ll have something to show for your efforts!

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Oracle PL/SQL by Example, 4th Edition

This integrated learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects! Completely updated for Oracle 11g, Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Fourth Edition covers all the fundamentals, from PL/SQL syntax and program control through packages and Oracle 11g’s significantly improved triggers.

One step at a time, you’ll walk through every key task, discovering the most important PL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Building on your hands-on learning, the authors share solutions that offer deeper insights and proven best practices. End-of-chapter projects bring together all the techniques you’ve learned, strengthening your understanding through real-world practice.


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Game Programming Gems 6 (Book & CD-ROM)

Welcome to the sixth volume of the Game Programming Gems series. With team sizes constantly expanding, developers are finding themselves pushed to become increasingly specialized. This makes it important to have cutting-edge, ready-to-use material in your specialization, as well as resources that you can call upon if you need to work outside your area of expertise. Volume 6 has been explicitly designed with your current challenges in mind. With the new generation of machines, players expect higher-fidelity models and animations, fancier physics and graphics effects, and more intelligent AI. All of these capabilities require robust teams and longer schedules, so to help ensure that your games are still delivered on time and on budget, you?ll find 50 all new articles written by experts in game technology from many different backgrounds and over twenty countries. This volume also includes a brand new section dedicated to Scripting and Data-Driven Systems, which is focused entirely on the growing trend of removing the programmer from the data-tweaking loop. So, whether you?re a new game programmer starting out on this exciting path, a grizzled, industry veteran, or a most welcome visitor, we hope that you will find inspiration, insight, and at least one or two true gems to use in your world!

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DATABASES

Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus

SQL is the ANSI-standard language for accessing and manipulating relational databases. Anyone (programmers, administrators, or designers) who work with a relational databases need to understand the SQL language. While most books on the market do not properly cover the basics, this book differs: it explains fundamentals in detail, supported by realistic examples.You will gain full competence to define, access, and manipulate data in an Oracle database.

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Java and XML

Two hot topics come together in this developer’s guide from Brett McLaughlin, Java and XML. Both Java and XML are cross-platform technologies; by using Java for code and XML for transporting data, you can build truly portable applications. This title is aimed at intermediate to advanced programmers; while XML topics are explained more or less from scratch, readers will need prior knowledge of Java.

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SQL Hacks

Let SQL Hacks serve as your toolbox for digging up and manipulating data. If you love to tinker and optimize, SQL is the perfect technology and SQL Hacks is the must-have book for you.

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 24 Hours

As a member of the Microsoft Office suite, Access 2000 is frequently deployed by users in need of immediate database solutions. Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 24 Hours helps the complete Access 2000 neophyte gain proficiency with this powerful–yet difficult-to-learn–data management tool.

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Access 2007: The Missing Manual

Compared to industrial-strength database products such as Microsoft’s SQL Server, Access is a breeze to use. It runs on PCs rather than servers and is ideal for small- to mid-sized businesses and households. But Access is still intimidating to learn. It doesn’t help that each new version crammed in yet another set of features; so many, in fact, that even the pros didn’t know where to find them all. Access 2007 breaks this pattern with some of the most dramatic changes users have seen since Office 95. Most obvious is the thoroughly redesigned user interface, with its tabbed toolbar (or “Ribbon”) that makes features easy to locate and use. The features list also includes several long-awaited changes. One thing that hasn’t improved is Microsoft’s documentation. To learn the ins and outs of all the features in Access 2007, Microsoft merely offers online help.

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Expert Oracle JDBC Programming

Many Java developers tend to treat Oracle as a “black box”; as a consequence, developers tend to write incorrect, non-scalable code. If you don’t intimately know how Oracle works and expects you to program, you might avoid Oracle extensions to the standard for fear of your code becoming database-dependent. If you give in to that fear, you’ll miss out on the extensive out-of-the-box functionality that Oracle offers. This book teaches you how to build efficient, high-performance, and robust Oracle-based JDBC applications. You’ll discover the full details of Oracle’s implementation of the JDBC 3.0 standard (what it supports, what it doesn’t and what extensions Oracle provides), and more.

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The Concordance Database Manual

As a document imaging database, Concordance 8 gives you the ability to search through otherwise unmanageable amounts of data to locate just the precise records necessary for the case at hand. The product also boasts extensive case analysis and organization features. This leaves you free to organize and manipulate crucial documents as you choose.

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Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

“This book will help you make the best use of Oracle technology. Emulating Tom’s rational methodology, and demand for proof-by-example, will make you a far better technology thinker. Without question, this is one of the most importantly Oracle books you can possess.”

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BIOLOGY

Insect Pest Management

The first edition of this book, published in 1991, was well received as an upper-level undergraduate textbook for courses in agricultural entomology and pest management. Since the publication of the first edition, many new advances have taken place in the subject, and these have been incorporated into the new version. The content has been updated throughout to provide a more balanced, comprehensive coverage.

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Insects on Palms

Palms constitute one of the largest botanical families and include some of the world’s most important economic plants. They are also unequalled as outdoor and indoor ornamental plants, and include many species that are essential components of the ecosystems of tropical and other warm regions.

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Fungal Biocontrol Agents: Progress, Problems and Potential

There is increasing interest in the use of fungi for the control of pests, weeds and diseases. This book brings together perspectives from pathology, ecology, genetics, physiology and production technology that address the use of fungi as biological control agents. Topics discussed include fungal nutrition and pathogensis, fungal toxins, control of plant and animal parasitic nematodes and production, storage, formulation and application technologies.

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Ganoderma Diseases of Perennial Crops

Ganoderma is a fungal pathogen that causes diseases on a variety of perennial crops including oil, palm, tea, rubber and coconut. Basal stem rot of oil palm caused by Ganoderma is considered the single major disease constraint to oil palm production in South East Asia, where losses can reach 80% after repeated planting cycles. Chapters in the book are based on presentations given at regional research workshops, one held in Egham, UK in August 1998, the other in Serdang, Malaysia in October 1998.

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