 .NET Enterprise Design with VB.NET and SQL Server 2000
Chapter 3: Testing
Although most system architecture books include a chapter on testing toward the end of the book, I believe that testing should be considered in the beginning of every project and at every step along the way. Therefore, I am including a chapter dedicated to testing early on in this book, in the hope that you will plan and design your projects with testing in mind.
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Active Visual Basic 5.0
Chapter 13: Internet Information Server
Historically (meaning, in web terms, within the last two years), the job of World Wide Web servers was simply to offer up HTML files as requested by Web
browsers.
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Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5
Chapter 9: Year 2000
What, you might ask, is the Year 2000 topic doing in a Visual Basic book? Isn't the Year 2000 problem (or the Millennium Bug, as the media like to call it--even though the new millennium doesn't actually begin until 2001) a mainframe problem for COBOL programmers to fix? I'll answer both these questions in this chapter.
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Applied Microsoft .Net Framework Programming, W/CD
Chapter 6: Common Object Operations
In this chapter, I'll describe how to properly implement the operations that all objects must exhibit. Specifically, I'll talk about object equality, identity, hash codes, and cloning.
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ASP Programmer's Reference
Sample Chapter: What is ASP?
It wouldn't be any use to you if we just wrote down what's in ASP. We could just sell you a cheat sheet. Syntax is nothing if you don't know what surrounds that code, how the code fits into the environment it's built for and how to fix the code when it's broken. So in this chapter, before we hit the specifics, we'll cover the generalities.
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ATL COM Programmer's Reference
Sample Chapter: Creating Objects
In the last chapter, you saw how to create a new ATL project. The chapter glossed over how objects are actually created, because that’s the very purpose of this chapter! As you'll see, there are several ways to create objects.
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C# Design and Development Expert One on One
Chapter 1 - Defining the Language Environment
Most professional programmers use more than one programming language. A programmer who relies on a single language for every task is like a carpenter who treats everything as a nail. Just as carpenters use a particular fastener for a specifi c need, programmers rely on programming languages that suit an individual development need. This chapter approaches the use of a particular programming language to meet a specifi c need in a development environment. Throughout the chapter, you discover how the language environment determines not only which language will work best but also how you interact with the language you select.
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CyberRookies 3D Game Creation, W/CD
Chapter 1: Your Game Studio
In short, a game development system is a computer system adequate for developing your game and all of its components. A game development system can range from a low-end, inexpensive machine for simple game productions to a high-end machine that costs thousands of dollars.
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Data and Reality
Preview
A message to mapmakers: highways are not painted red, rivers don't have county lines running down the middle, and you can't see contour lines on a mountain. For some time now my work has concerned the representation of information in computers.
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Early Adopter VoiceXML
Chapter 7: VoiceXML with XSLT (HTML and WML)
This chapter examines the use of the Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) as a tool for the generation of VoiceXML. I intend to illustrate a complete, end-to-end example of implementing a voice interface for a client-server database via XML and XSL.
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Effective Awk Programming, Third Edition
Chapter 9 : Internationalization with gawk
Until recently, the ability to provide internationalization was largely restricted to programs written in C and C++. This chapter describes the underlying library gawk uses for internationalization, as well as how gawk makes internationalization features available at the awk program level. Having internationalization available at the awk level gives software developers additional flexibility -- they are no longer required to write in C when internationalization is a requirement.
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Effective Awk Programming, Third Edition
Chapter 10 : Advanced Features of gawk
This chapter discusses advanced features in gawk. It's a bit of a "grab bag" of items that are otherwise unrelated to each other. First, a command-line option allows gawk to recognize nondecimal numbers in input data, not just in awk programs. Next, two-way I/O, discussed briefly in earlier parts of this book, is described in full detail, along with the basics of TCP/IP networking and BSD portal files. Finally, gawk can profile an awk program, making it possible to tune it for performance.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server, Sixth edition
Chapter 28: Understanding ADO and OLE DB
Beginning with the Visual Basic Library for Microsoft SQL Server (VBSQL) and ending with the most recent interface to OLE DB, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), a new data access interface seems to evolve every couple of years.
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HTML 4 For Dummies
Chapter 18: Ten Design Desiderata
When building a Web site, you must know what you want to communicate. The content must always remain king. Nevertheless, we'd like to suggest a bevy of design desiderata to consider when laying out your pages.
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HTML The Definitive Guide, Third Edition
Chapter 5: Rules, Images, and Multimedia
While the body of most HTML documents is text, an appropriate seasoning of horizontal rules, images, and other multimedia elements make for a much more inviting and attractive document. In this chapter, we describe in detail how you can insert special multimedia elements into your documents, when their use is appropriate, and how to avoid overdoing it.
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HTTP Pocket Reference
Excerpt: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
This section presents an example of a common web transaction, showing the HTTP exchanged between the client and server program.
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J2ME in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
Chapter 3: The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets
MIDP is a version of the Java platform based on CLDC and KVM that is aimed at small footprint devices, principally cell phones and two-way pagers. It is also suitable for running on PDAs, and an implementation is available for PalmOS Version 3.5 and higher.
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Java for COBOL Programmers
Chapter 2: Introducing the Java Development Environment
Java’s designers had a number of primary design objectives. As we have seen, object orientation is one of them. Another is the premise that a program can be compiled on any machine and the output of the compiler simply moved to another machine, where it will execute without changes. This concept is captured in the Java mantra “Write once, run anywhere.”
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JavaScript : The Definitive Guide, Third Edition
Chapter 13: Windows and Frames
We begin this chapter with an overview of some of the most commonly used properties and methods of the Window object. Later sections of the chapter explain this material in more detail. As usual, the reference section contains complete coverage of Window object properties and methods.
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JavaScript Bible, Fourth Edition
Chapter 1 Excerpt: JavaScript's Role in the World Wide Web and Beyond
The JavaScript language is a Web-enhancing technology. When employed on the client computer, the language can help turn a static page of content into an engaging, interactive, and intelligent experience.
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MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures, Exam 70-300
Chapter 3: Envisioning the Solution
The success of a project depends on the ability of the project team members and the customers to share a clear vision of the goals and objectives of the project. You define the vision of the project during the envisioning phase of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Process Model. In the following four lessons, you will learn about the envisioning phase and the roles and responsibilities of team members during this phase. You will also learn how to define the vision of the project and analyze risks associated with the project.
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Microsoft .Net Compact Framework : Core Reference
Chapter 4 - Building Windows Forms Applications
Although we have seen that building a Windows form and its associated code for the .NET Compact Framework is very similar to the way it is done in the full .NET Framework, the design of the form is very different. This is especially true for Pocket PC applications.
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Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Programmer's Guide
Sample Chapter
Creating a home page for your Web site is a great way to become familiar with a new Web authoring and development product. If you already know how to create navigation bars, how to design page layouts, and how to code with JavaScript, this is an opportunity to see how to accomplish these tasks using Microsoft Visual InterDev.
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Murach’s Visual Basic 2008
Chapter 2 - How to design a Windows Forms Application
In the last chapter, you learned the basic skills for working with Visual Studio,
you toured a Windows Forms application, and you tested an application with
three Windows forms. Now, in this chapter, you’ll learn how to use Visual
Studio to design the user interface for a Windows Forms application.
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Professional Active Server Pages 2.0
Chapter 10: Excerpt
Developing a client/server application is never a simple task. The key benefits of the Web and the Active Server platform in designing such applications are universal access, richer content and easier creation. In this part of the book, we'll learn how to start building client/server applications that can be used in business critical situations.
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Professional Active Server Pages 3.0
Chapter 9: Connections, Commands, and Procedures
This manuscript is an abridged version of a chapter from the Wrox Press book Professional Active Server Pages 3.0. Connections, Commands And Procedures examines the different ways in which ADO can access data. This chapter covers the most important topics, and those methods and properties that are most applicable for an ASP developer.
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Professional ASP.Net 2.0
Chapter 1: Hello ASP.NET 2.0!
The evolution of ASP.NET continues! The progression from Active Server Pages 3.0 to ASP.NET 1.0 was revolutionary, to say the least; and we are here to tell you that the evolution from ASP.NET 1.0/1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 is just as exciting and dramatic.
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Professional MTS and MSMQ Programming with VB and ASP
Chapter 1: What Are Web Applications?
Microsoft is promoting their Distributed interNet Applications (DNA) architecture as a platform for developing fully distributed applications, but they haven't been having too much success at gaining wide recognition for it so far. Perhaps the problem is that it sounds like just marketing-speak.
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Professional VB 2005
Chapter 1 - What is Microsoft .NET?
New technologies force change, nowhere more so than in computers and software. Occasionally, a new technology is so innovative that it forces us to challenge our most fundamental assumptions. In the computing industry, the latest such technology is the Internet.
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Professional Visual Studio 2008
Chapter 1 - A Quick Tour
Ever since we have been developing software, there has been a need for tools to help us write, compile, and debug our applications. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the next iteration in the continual evolution of a best - of - breed integrated development environment (IDE). If this is your
first time using Visual Studio, then you will find this chapter a useful starting point.
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Professional XML Design and Implementation
Chapter 2 Excerpt: XML Overview
Imagine a world where all information is stored in a way that enables it to be indexed, found and combined in a common format. Where, when you want to trade electronically with a new company, you can be sure you are using compatible systems. Where links between web sites are never broken. Where complex web sites are easy to maintain. Utopia? Perhaps, but this is the promise of XML.
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Programming C#, Second Edition
Chapter 18: Attributes and Reflection
Throughout this book, I have emphasized that a .NET application contains code, data, and metadata. Metadata is information about the data--that is, information about the types, code, assembly, and so forth--stored along with your program. This chapter explores how some of that metadata is created and used.
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Service-Oriented Architecture
Chapter 13 : Thirty Best Practices for Integrating Web Services
This guide will help you dramatically reduce the risk, complexity, and cost of integrating the many new concepts and technologies introduced by the SOA platform. It brings together the first comprehensive collection of field-proven strategies, guidelines, and best practices for making the transition toward the service-oriented enterprise.
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Tcl/Tk for Programmers : With Solved Exercises that Work with Unix and Windows
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Tcl, and its extension Tk, are interpreted. This means that to the programmer it appears as if the computer speaks Tcl/Tk. This chapter discusses some issues related to obtaining and running Tcl/Tk and introduces a couple of very simple example scripts.
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Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours
Chapter 3: Different Data Types
Before you can write meaningful programs, you must be able to manipulate data. One of the strengths of COBOL is its explicit definition of various types of data. In this hour, you learn about many different types of data and how to declare them in a COBOL program
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Teach Yourself JavaScript 1.3 in 24 Hours
Chapter 3: Exploring JavaScript's Capabilities
Before you learn more about the details of the JavaScript language, you might find it useful to have a general idea of what JavaScript can do and what is being done with it on the Web. During this hour, you'll take a quick look at some of the most useful applications for JavaScript.
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Visual Basic 6 For Dummies
Chapter 35: The Ten Visual Basic Topics That Didn't Fit Anywhere Else
• Finding magazines and newsletters • Visiting Visual Basic Web sites • Joining a user group • Attending technical conferences • Writing your own DLL files • Writing Visual Basic programs for the Macintosh and Linux
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XSLT
Chapter 5: Creating Links and Cross-References
If you're creating a web site, publishing a book, or creating an XML transaction, chances are many pieces of information will refer to other things. This chapter discusses a several ways to link XML elements.
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XSLT : The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Web Data
Sample Chapter: An XML-Based Web
The World Wide Web (WWW) contains a massive amount of information. Most information on the Web is marked up in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which enables Web browsers to display the information. But there are surveys that indicate that 70 percent of all HTML markup has errors.
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