** IT and Computing Books **

Title: Building an ASP.NET Intranet
Authors: Kouroush Ardestani, Brian Boyce, Chad Hutchinson, Saurabh Nandu, Jon C Roth, Chandu Thota, Jonathan Wlash, Karli Watson
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR30

This book uses ASP.NET and Visual Basic.NET to develop an intranet application that provides all of the features that users expect. This book covers:
- a full explanantion of the IBuySpy Portal architecture - how to customize existing portal modules, as well as building your own - the intranet build will enable users to publish content, manage documents, schedule events, access human resources information and hold online discussions - effective use of stored procedures through integrating with Windows security and creating an advanced user interface with ASP.NET Web Controls



Title: Understanding the .NET Framework
Authors: Kent Tegels, Tony Baer, Jan Narkiewicz, Neil Whitlow, Chandu Thota
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR30

This book covers:
- what .NET is: the Framework, the infrastructure, and the products
- why Microsoft has revamped its development and runtime model, and how this will affect you
- how the .NET Framework provides multi-language support, a common type system, memory management, garbage collection and new deployment models
- the tools that .NET Framework's class library provides to develop Windows and web applications, and to access and manipulate data
- how .NET supports middle-tier components with transactions, security and messaging - and how to use existing DLLs and COM components
- the vital role played by web services and their role in future software development
- the path to a successful career in .NET



Title: Professional Visual Basic Interoperability: COM and VB6 to .NET (Written and tested for final release of .NET v1.0)
Authors: Billy Hollis and Rockford Lhotka
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR30

This book covers:
- using COM components from .NET and .NET assemblies from COM
- calling COM components in MTS/COM+ from .NET
- Visual Basic.NET and COM in COM+
- custom marshaling and threading issues
- DCOM, Remoting and Web Services
- sharing configuration information
- binary and random flat file access in .NET
- using ADO in .NET
- calling API or static DLL functions from .NET
- preparing your VB^ code for migration to .NET


Title: Fast Track Visual Basic.NET
Authors: Billy S. Hollis and Rockford Lhotka
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR35

This book covers:
- an introduction to the .NET framework and the new Visual Studio.NET IDE
- a concise review of the new language features of Visual Basic.NET
- New Windows user interface and web capabilities of Visual Basic.NET
- data access using Visual Basic.NET and ADO.NET
- new installation and deployment features
- interoperating with VB6 and migrating VB6 code to Visual Basic.NET



Title: Professional Windows Forms
Authors: Jason Bell, Benny B. Johansen, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Gerry O'Brien, Ranga Raghunathan, Simon Robinson, John Timney, Eric White
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR45

This book covers:
- introduction to the .NET framework and Windows forms in this context
- overview of the new and important features of Visual Studio.NET
- a look at object-oriented programming including Windows Forms Visual Inheritance
- events and event-driven programming
- how to manipulate data with Windows Forms
- all the controls made available from VS.NET, including how to use ActiveX controls
- graphical drawing with GDI++
- debugging Windows Forms applications using the .NET debugger



Title: Beginning Web Programming using VB.NET & Visual Studio.NET
Authors: Craig Bowes, David Cazzulino, Mike Clark, Chris Hart, Neil Raybould, Tobin Titus
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR45

This book covers:
- how the web works: the Internet, HTTP and the client-server architecture
- creating dynamic web pages with web forms and web server controls
- acquiring and displaying data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components
- debugging and error handling in ASP.NET applications
- the importance of XML and particularly its role in web services
- setting up your web server efficiently and securely
- assessing the performance of your application, and preparing it for release
- build a case study that demonstrates the use of these technologies in practise



Title: Professional Visual Basic .NET Transactions
Authors: Matthew Bortniker and James Conard
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR40

This book covers:
- basic concepts of ADO.NET, SQL Server, ASP.NET and XML
- how to create Web Services and utilise them for transactions
- developing distributed transactional components using COM+
- interoperability and .NET Remoting
- debugging and troubleshooting
- in-depth case study to apply the concepts and technologies you've learnt to build a complete, distributed transaction-processing system



Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 MTS Programming
Authors: Matthew Bortniker with James M Conard
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR45

This book covers:
- how VB, COM and MTS work together
- the relationship between VB, MTS and the Windows DNA model
- a full explanation of MTS transactions
- designing and developing successful VB MTS components
- securing your MTS components
- how to handle errors in an MTS components
- using the MTS Explorer for MTS components and administration
- the way SQL server, MTS and the MS DTC can work together
- handling MTS transactions from an ASP page
- two major and complete VB MTS distributed applications
- what you need to know about MTS in preparation for COM+


Title: Professional ADO.NET Programming
Authors: Bipin Joshi, Paul Dickinson, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Kevin Hoffman, John McTainsh, Donny Mack, Matt Milner, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Doug Seven, Julian Skinner
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR55

This book covers:
- ADO.NET and the .NET Framework
- using the .NET Data Providers to create connections and execute commands
- using the DataSet to manipulate data
- ADO.NET and XML
- using COM interoperability
- performance and security issues
- practical code examples, extensive technical information and a detailed case study


Title: Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET
Authors: John Kauffman, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Brian Matsik, Eric N. Mintz, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Kent Tegels, Donald Xie, John West, Jesudas Chinnathampi, James Greenwood
Book Condition: Pre-owned, Good
MYR35

This book covers:
- connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MS Access
- reading data with data reader and dataset objects
- creating and deleting records and editing data
- displaying data with ASP.NET's web server controls
- writing and using stored procedures from VB.NET code
- placing your data access code in reusable class libraries