Desktop computing proficiency is increasingly important in today’s business world. As a result, when screening, hiring, and training employees, employers can feel reassured by relying on the objectivity and consistency of technology certification to ensure the competence of their workforce. As an employee or job seeker, you can...
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the underlying markup language of the World Wide Web. It’s the common thread that ties together virtually every Web site, from largescale corporate sites such as Microsoft’s to single-page classroom projects at the local grade school.
Welcome to the PCs and the Macs. I am delighted to be able to bring you a resource for experienced Microsoft Office users on both platforms. Whether you work only with Microsoft Office 2010 or only with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, or you work across platforms as I do, this book is for you.
The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 are the latest technologies
for building flexible user interfaces (UI) for applications built with Microsoft technology.
All three rely on the XAML markup language to describe UI elements and layout, and you can program
applications for all three platforms with...
In the fall of 2004, at a popular software conference I realized how all major component
vendors were advertising their ASP.NET products using a new word—Ajax. Only a few weeks
later, a brand new module in my popular ASP.NET master class made its debut—using Ajax
to improve the user experience. At its core, Ajax is a little...
Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation—and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever! Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you’ll walk you through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine classic storytelling techniques...
Welcome to the Developer’s Guide for the Microsoft® Reference Architecture for
Commerce, version 2.0. The Microsoft Reference Architecture for Commerce consists
of engineered code components that allow developers to build retail Web sites
using the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server operating system and...
As the Web grows and evolves, so do the expectations of the Web user. When the first
Web browser was developed, it was created to provide a relatively simple way to allow
hyperlinking between documents. Then these early browsers were coupled with the
cross-machine protocols encompassing the Internet, and suddenly documents stored on...
Announcing an all-new SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on 70-511, the required exam for the MCTS certification: Windows Application Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It...
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is the fourth incarnation of the popular collaboration and
content management platform from Microsoft. With each release, the reach and capabilities
of SharePoint products and technologies have grown, offering new tools to organizations
and new opportunities to developers. With SharePoint 2010, you...
Microsoft Expression Blend 4 is Microsoft’s newest interactive design tool. It’s intended for
designers and developers who need to create user interfaces for rich Internet, desktop, and
mobile applications—and it offers tools that support the design of such applications, from
conception to completion.
Building WPF and Silverlight applications can be challenging, especially for those new to
the technology. Building clean, maintainable, extensible, testable, loosely coupled ones—
with no idea where to start—is close to impossible. In late 2007, I was privileged to get a
call from Glenn Block at Microsoft asking if I was...
