Building secure distributed Web applications can be challenging. It usually involves integrating several different technologies and products—yet your complete application will only be as secure as its weakest link. This guide presents a practical, scenario-driven approach to designing and building secure ASP.NET applications for...

As a designer himself, author Jeffrey Bardzell is keenly aware of the dilemma you're faced with today: With clients and users demanding more than the static, HTML pages that defined first-generation Web sites, you have no choice but to migrate to dynamic, service based sites. But that means a world of programming, servers,...

• An introduction to the Visio environment and conceptual information about Developing Microsoft Visio Solutions.
• Detailed information about using formulas to design SmartShapes...

With ADO.NET, you can build database-enabled applications and Web services with more speed, flexibility, and power than ever before. ADO.NET Programming in Visual Basic .NET teaches you all you'll need to know to make the most of ADO.NET - whether you're an experienced Visual Basic database...

Get expert advice on planning and steering a successful IT project using PMBOK-driven principles. Expert author and PMI certified Project Management Professional, Joseph Phillips, walks you through each step of the IT project management process, and shares critical strategies that engender smoothly-run, on-time, and within-budget projects....

I'd like to thank the folks who made this book possible. Martin DelRe was my acquisitions editor. Valerie Woolley was the book's...

This is not a book for beginners. Writing for professional developers and true Excel experts, the authors share insider's knowledge...

Deploy and support IIS 6.0, which is included with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, with expertise direct from the Microsoft IIS product team. This official Resource Kit packs 1200+ pages of in-depth deployment, operations, and technical information, including step-by-step instructions for common administrative tasks. Get critical...

This book brings together dozens of proven patterns for creating use cases that more accurately reflect real requirements, are easier to translate into working systems, and are simpler to maintain. Utilizing these patterns, architects, analysts, engineers, and managers can leverage decades of hard-earned knowledge to achieve...

If you learn best by doing, and what you're intent on doing is create stunning Web graphics with Macromedia Fireworks 8, this is the place to turn. The best-selling tutorial book on Fireworks has been completely updated to get you hands-on fast with all of the program's most important features, including its newest:...

Brilliantly compiled by author Juval Lowy, Programming .NET Components, Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework--the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines, readers will learn how to...