Now you can do the things you do every day with Office—create reports, manage finances, send e-mail, and make a presentation—but do them faster, smarter, and better. Dive in! This friendly, focused guide shows the best ways to use the core features in your Office programs, so you spend more time doing and less time learning. Use...

The World Wide Web has become the predominant electronic publishing medium on the planet. Once considered an obscure technical resource, the Internet now receives prominent publicity at sporting events, in presidential debates, in television commercials, and in print advertising and marketing materials everywhere. Without the...

Get expert guidance to assess and help improve the security of your Exchange Server 2003 messaging systems. From risk assessment to implementation and auditing procedures, get critical guidance to help enhance the security of your messaging infrastructure. Written by a network security expert who works closely with the Microsoft Exchange...

This book will help you figure out how to write Web applications using Microsoft's most current version of its HTTP request processing framework—ASP.NET 2.0. Web development has come a long way since the earliest sites began popping up in the early 1990s. The world of Web development offers several different choices as far...

Create professional-quality applications, components, and user interfaces faster and more efficiently than ever with the powerful object-oriented programming capabilities in the Visual Basic 6.0 development system. From Windows®...

This book is not an introductory treatise on SQL Server, although it does include one introductory chapter (Chapter 2). In Chapter 1, I discuss the history of the product (which I lived), from SQL Server's inception and partnership with Sybase to its current success. But beyond these early chapters, the book is very detailed and written...

Extend your programming expertise across the widest range of mobile devices with this incisive guide to Microsoft ASP.NET mobile controls. Now integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, ASP.NET mobile controls enable you to build applications that render intelligently on different devices—regardless of markup language, browser, or...

Active Directory is probably the most important feature of the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. It can be used by organizations and enterprises to centralize network information that was previously stored in diverse and incompatible databases. It can then distribute that information throughout the network and allow access...

This book is a straightforward discussion of the concepts, principles, and processes of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and how IPv6 is supported by the Microsoft Windows .NET Server 2003 family of operating systems. It is primarily a discussion of protocols and processes rather than a discussion of planning, configuration, deployment, and...

This was the prediction I made in the...