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Accept no limits! Tweak Windows XP for ultimate performance with the undocumented secrets and hidden gems of the experts who work with the technology every day. Three Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) professionals have teamed with well-known Windows book author Paul McFedries to reveal their best from-the-field-techniques, practices,...

The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But, Scrum’s simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding...

As computers and computer networks continue to grow larger and more complex, system administrators continue to face new challenges. Not all that long ago, system administration was limited to managing a...

Get real-world guidance—direct from the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 team—for planning and deploying an upgrade from Windows NT 4.o to Windows Server 2003 for your small or medium-sized business. This book delivers straightforward, step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade to an Active Directory directory service environment;...

Now you can do the things you do every day with FrontPage 2003—design and publish Web pages, create rich content, add dynamic features—but do them faster, smarter, and better. Dive in! This friendly, focused guide shows the best ways to get a great-looking Web site up and running, so you spend more time doing and less time...

When I first started developing information systems at Microsoft, I often looked at Microsoft Excel and lamented that it was not packaged as a collection of reusable components that I could simply pick up and integrate into my applications. At that time, the current version of Excel had a new revolutionary user interface element called a...

COM+ has gone through many evolutions since the introduction of OLE technology in the early releases of Microsoft Windows. The alphabet soup of OLE,...

Teach yourself how to write high-performance Web applications with ASP.NET and Visual C# .NET 2003—one step at a time. This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly guides you through the fundamental tools and technologies, including the common language runtime, Web Forms, XML Web services, and the Microsoft .NET Framework...

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