Understanding Windows CardSpace

Windows CardSpace empowers organizations to prevent identity theft and systematically address a broad spectrum of security and privacy challenges. Understanding Windows CardSpaceis the first insider's guide to Windows CardSpace and the broader topic of identity management for technical and business professionals. Drawing on the authors' unparalleled experience earned by working with the CardSpace product team and by implementing state-of-the-art CardSpace-based systems at leading enterprises, it offers unprecedented insight into the realities of identity management: from planning and design through deployment.

Part I introduces the fundamental concepts of user-centered identity management, explains the context in which Windows CardSpace operates, and reviews the problems CardSpace aims to solve. Next, the authors walk through CardSpace from a technical standpoint, describing its technologies, elements, artifacts, operations and development practices, and usage scenarios. Finally, they carefully review the design and business considerations associated with architecting solutions based on CardSpace or any other user-centered identity management system.Coverage includes *The limitations of current approaches to authentication and identity management*Detailed information on advanced Web services*The Identity Metasystem, the laws of identity, and the ideal authentication system*Windows CardSpace: What it is, how it works, and how developers and managers can use it in their organizations*CardSpace technology: user experience, Information Cards, private desktops, and integration with .NET 3.5 and Windows Vista*CardSpace implementation: from HTML integration through federation, Web services integration, and beyond*Adding personal card support to a website: a detailed, scenario-based explanation*Choosing or becoming an identity provider: opportunities, business impacts, operational issues, and pitfalls to avoid*Using CardSpace to leverage trust relationships and overcome phishing Whether you're a developer, security specialist, or business decision-maker, this book will answer your most crucial questions about identity management, so you can protect everything that matters: your people, your assets, your partners, and your customers.

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Linux for Programmers and Users

For introductory through advanced courses in Linux. Addressing the growing popularity of Linux in the academic setting, this text is based on the widely used book by these authors, "UNIX for Programmers."

It applies to major inexpensive or free distributions of Linux, and documents the most commonly needed topics for both new and experienced Linux users and programmers (including over 100 utilities and their common options). Students will gain a solid foundation of understanding for the most often-used Linux utilities.

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iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone: Programming an Exciting Mobile Platform

Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of thousands of developers bought them with the expressed purpose of designing and running third-party software. In this clear and concise book, veteran hacker Jonathan Zdziarski - one of the original hackers of the iPhone - explains the iPhone's native environment and how you can build software for this device using its Objective-C, C, and C++ development frameworks.

"iPhone Open Application Development" walks you through the iPhone's proprietary development environment, offers an overview of the Objective-C language you'll use with it, and supplies background for the iPhone operating system. You also get detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone features - graphics and audio programming, interfaces for adding multitouch functionality to games, the use of hardware sensors, and the device's vast user interface kit.This book explains: how to access the iPhone's underlying operating system; the makeup of an iPhone application; how to get the open source tool chain running on your desktop; the iPhone's core user interface framework, which is heavily tied to major application-level functions; using the many touted iPhone features such as multitouch, hardware sensors, and gestures; intercepting and handling event notifications for many iPhone-related events; raw video surfaces and 3D transformations that take you deeper into advanced graphics on the iPhone; how to record and play simple sounds and intercept sound events; advanced digital audio output using Apple's new Audio Toolbox framework; and advanced user interface components such as section lists, keyboards, and image manipulation.

The Appendix includes a compendium of miscellaneous code examples for cool application features, such as using the camera and creating a CoverFlow[registered]-like album browser. Any programmer can use this book to write applications with the same spectacular effects that made the device an immediate hit, and impress users just as much as the official iPhone software does. That programmer can easily be you.

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100 Things You Need to Know About Microsoft Windows Vista

Tired of clawing your way through computer books that start at the beginning of recorded history just to find one tiny nugget of information you need? Tired of wrenching your back to pull that massive Windows tome off your bookshelf? Tired of wishing you could find a simple answer to what should be a simple problem? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then 100 Things You Need to Know about MicrosoftA (R) Windows VistaaA A is just the book you've been looking for.

Chock full of timesaving tips, heady solutions, and expert know-how, this book doesn't break the bank nor does it require a Bowflex body to hoist it around. Inside you'll find step-by-step help for the 100 things every Windows user needs to know when making the big switch between Windows XP and Vista. Even if you're brand new to Windows (meaning Vista is your first-ever operating system), you'll find the advice here indispensable. In this book, we assume, for instance, that you really don't give a hoot about what TCP/IP is. We're betting you just want to get your Internet connection up and running, and leave the techy muck to the propeller heads.*

Want all the cool new cutting-edge features and interface Windows Vista offers? Well, before you run out and buy the software, you need to ensure your system will support it! We walk you through, step-by-step, how to manually check if your PC and other hardware and software are supported for use with Windows Vista. We show you how to perform common upgrade tasks, if needed, before you install Vista. In addition, we provide tips and procedures on backing up your data. * Having to choose between five different versions (yes, Vista comes in FIVE flavors!) can be confusing! Don't sweat it, though--we've got you covered. We show you how to decide which flavor of Vista is best suited to you! Then we walk you through installing and setting up Vista for the very first time. * Next we dig into the new Vista interface, which is quite a change from the old XP! Then we give you a tour of the many new and enhanced features. While you might fancy yourself a wicked-smart Windows user, don't skip this section! We're positive you'll find things you didn't know that will help you make Vista do thy bidding. * Don't like the slick new Vista interface? (Macintosh, anyone?)

We show you how to harness the power of Vista while keeping the look and feel of your XP. Who says change has to be painful? * After you have the basics nailed, we then show you some of the cool things you can do with Vista, from customizing its performance, to disabling annoying security controls, to connecting to a wireless network.

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GPRS Networks

GPRS is a packet based wireless communication service that offers data rates from 9.05 up to 171.2 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. GPRS is based on GSM communications and complements existing services such as circuit switched cellular phone connections and the Short Message Service (SMS).
GPRS represents the bridge between 2G and 3G mobile telecommunications and is commonly referred to as 2.5G.

Implementation of GPRS requires modification of the existing GSM networks in that GSM is a circuit switched technology while GPRS is packet oriented. GPRS enables packet data (the same as is used by an Ethernet LAN, WAN or the Internet) to be sent to and from a mobile station - e.g. mobile phone, PDA or Laptop.

WAP and SMS can also be sent using GPRS and individuals working with GPRS need to learn and understand how the mobile stations, the air interface, network architecture, protocol structures and signalling procedures must be modified.
GPRS offers much higher data rates than GSM and can be combined with 3G technologies such as EDGE to give even higher bit-rates. It offers many benefits for customers and network operators: such as volume (rather then time) dependent billing and more efficient use of network resources.

Due to the worldwide delay in implementing 3G solutions such as CDMA and UMTS the demand for GPRS is still growing.

GPRS Networks:

*Offers detailed information ranging from standards to practical implementation

*Answers 'how' and 'why' rather than just simply re-stating GPRS specifications

*Provides comprehensive coverage in a single volume

Essential reading for all telecommunications project managers, field engineers, technical staff in network operator and manufacturing organisations, GPRS application and service developers, Datacoms/IT engineers.
The comprehensive coverage also makes this a superb reference for students of computer science, telecommunications and electrical engineering.

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The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor

The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor provides an overview of the functioning of Xen from the perspective of a systems programmer. The book describes paravirtualized guest interfaces in detail, covering the steps involved in making an existing operating system into a fully-aware Xen citizen and writing a new kernel using Xen as an abstraction layer. The book discusses the similarities and differences between Xen and the physical architecture, and the functioning of the Hypervisor itself.

The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor provides an overview of the functioning of Xen from the perspective of a systems programmer. The book describes paravirtualized guest interfaces in detail, covering the steps involved in making an existing operating system into a fully-aware Xen citizen and writing a new kernel using Xen as an abstraction layer. The book discusses the similarities and differences between Xen and the physical architecture, and the functioning of the Hypervisor itself.

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ScreenOS Cookbook

Written by key members of Juniper Network's ScreenOS development team, this one-of-a-kind Cookbook helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances. This book: offers scores of recipes that address a wide range of security issues; provides step-by-step solutions; and, includes discussions of why the recipes work, so you can easily set up and keep ScreenOS systems on track. "ScreenOS Cookbook" gives you real-world fixes, techniques, and configurations that save time - not hypothetical situations out of a textbook.

This book comes directly from the experience of engineers who have seen and fixed every conceivable ScreenOS network topology, from small branch office firewalls to appliances for large core enterprise and government, to the heavy duty protocol driven service provider network. Its easy-to-follow format enables you to find the topic and specific recipe you need right away and match it to your network and security issue.Topics include: Configuring and managing ScreenOS firewalls; NTP (Network Time Protocol); Interfaces, Zones, and Virtual Routers; Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks; DDNS, DNS, and DHCP; IP Routing; Policy-Based Routing; Elements of Policies; Authentication; Application Layer Gateway (SIP, H323, RPC, RTSP, etc.

Content Security; Managing Firewall Policies; IPSEC VPN; RIP, OSPF, BGP, and NSRP; Multicast - IGPM, PIM, Static Mroutes; and, Wireless. Along with the usage and troubleshooting recipes, you will also find plenty of tricks, special considerations, ramifications, and general discussions of interesting tangents and network extrapolation. For the accurate, hard-nosed information you require to get your ScreenOS firewall network secure and operating smoothly , no book matches "ScreenOS Cookbook".

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Introducing 3ds Max: 3D for Beginners

Introducing 3ds Max 9: 3D for Beginners breaks down the complexities of 3D modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. You'll jump right into the pipeline from preproduction to production to postproduction with clear-cut explanations, tutorials, and hands-on projects to build your skills. A special color insert includes real-world examples from talented 3ds Max beginners. From immediately creating your first animation to tackling poly modeling, rendering, and particles, you'll get a solid grounding in 3ds Max 9.

*Build the knowledge you need for game, film, and TV production
*Master modeling from simple and complex polygon mechanical models to organic character modeling
*Assign textures effects and UV texture mapping
*Create walk cycles and simple character animations with Character Studio
*Explore lighting, rendering, and raytracing concepts
*Render through mental ray and raytracing
*Discover simple rigid body dynamics and Max's particle systems

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A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML

Is this book for programmers? Written specifically for graphic designers and production artists already comfortable working with Adobe InDesign, this book teaches you how to automate publishing without learning a lot of scary code. XML simplifies the process of moving content in and out of your layouts and can speed up any print or Web assignment.

Why should I care about XML? If you're managing data-intensive layout projects, and you want to keep that data consistent, accurate, and up-to-date, then incorporating XML can help. You can also use XML to automate processes like importing text and large numbers of graphics into a layout, or repurposing content from one application to another. Do I need additional plug-ins or special software? You need only the powerful features built into InDesign CS2 or CS3 to use this book. How will I learn XML? This guide includes nine easy-to-follow projects with downloadable support files. With these hands-on tutorials, you will learn XML in context. By the final project, XML will no longer be a mystery, but a powerful tool you can use to support your company or clients.These real-world projects will teach you: l Business cards: Create a structured layout in InDesign and then import XML.Format text automatically and flow the text into multiple examples. l Product catalog: Learn how to import XML data into a structured layout using nested styles and cloned text. l Direct mail and variable data printing: Use XML and InDesign to create sophisticated direct mail pieces without costly plug-ins or third-party software. l Magazine and newspaper: Build and export magazine-style publications for online distribution. l Web: Transform XML into XHTML to incorporate directly into your Web pages, or use Cascading Style Sheets to instantly format your exported XML.

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Design First for 3D Artist

The most overlooked component in 3D animation is design. This is a cross-platform book that will show how to apply the techniques of pre-visualisation through sketching, colour, and photo reference to enhance your 3D.

As a CGI producer/director, Geoffrey Kater communicates to 3D artists on a daily basis about the importance of using traditional design techniques to improve and fully realise animation projects. When faced with your next 3D project, this book will have you reaching for the pencil first, instead of your keyboard.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

Companies have been talking about knowledge management and leveraging their IT investments to enhance team collaboration for years, but have had difficulty implementing effective solutions that tie together the wide range of information employees need to access. SharePoint 2003 made great inroads into filling these needs. SharePoint 2007 will make even greater strides in enabling organizations to create a practical framework to bring together information from such diverse systems as Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows Server, and other Microsoft servers.

Previous editions of this book have been bestsellers. With this release, SharePoint has gotten so big that we have split this edition of SharePoint Unleashed into two books, this one for administrators and a second one for developers (Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed.) This one will provide comprehensive, practical coverage for administrators, on topics including planning; implementation; migration; administration; working with tools for endusers, administrators, and managers; and extensions for workflows, business processes, and business intelligence.

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Java After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work

Java After Hours takes the reader into realms of Java never dreamed of before. Holzner shows them how to use Java to create graphics interactively on Web servers and send images to Web browsers, how to tinker with Java's Swing package to make it do seemingly impossible things (like display combo boxes in menu bars), how to search Web sites and send email from Java programs, and much more.

You've likely toiled with Java for eight hours a day, day after day; but now it's time to make Java your playground. The projects will be developed using many different fields of Java- Swing, Internet, multithreading, Ant, and more. The idea is to take control of Java and explore its possibilities. Java After Hours will serve to enlarge any developer's Java arsenal, but what's paramount is the fun had while doing it. This book is written to be fun. From threaded games to writing your own Ant task for custom Java builds, this book should please anyone who writes Java.

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Teach Yourself Cgi Programming With Perl 5 in a Week

This step-by-step tutorial teaches how to create, use and maintain Common Gateway Interfaces (CGI). It describes effective ways of using CGI as an integral part of Web development, adding interaction to Web sites.

This revised edition includes Windows CGI programming and how to interact with Java.

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Core Java: Advanced Feature v. 2

The revised edition of the classic Core Java™, Volume II–Advanced Features, covers advanced user-interface programming and the enterprise features of the Java SE 6 platform. Like Volume I (which covers the core language and library features), this volume has been updated for Java SE 6 and new coverage is highlighted throughout. All sample programs have been carefully crafted to illustrate the latest programming techniques, displaying best-practices solutions to the types of real-world problems professional developers encounter.

Volume II includes new sections on the StAX API, JDBC 4, compiler API, scripting framework, splash screen and tray APIs, and many other Java SE 6 enhancements. In this book, the authors focus on the more advanced features of the Java language, including complete coverage of

• Streams and Files
• Networking
• Database programming
• XML
• JNDI and LDAP
• Internationalization
• Advanced GUI components
• Java 2D and advanced AWT
• JavaBeans
• Security
• RMI and Web services
• Collections
• Annotations
• Native methods

For thorough coverage of Java fundamentals–including interfaces and inner classes, GUI programming with Swing, exception handling, generics, collections, and concurrency–look for the eighth edition of Core Java™, Volume I–Fundamentals

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ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook

This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.NET. Rather than loading you down with theory, the new edition of "ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook" gives you more than 150 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform.

Organized to help you find the topic and specific recipe you need quickly and easily, this book is more than just a handy compilation of cut-and-paste C# and VB.NET code."ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook" also offers clear explanations of how and why each code solution works, warns you of potential pitfalls, and cites sources of additional information so you can learn to adapt the book's problem-solving techniques to different situations. This collection of timesaving recipes covers vital topics including: connecting to data; retrieving and managing data; transforming and analyzing data; modifying data; binding data to .NET user interfaces; optimizing .NET data access; enumerating and maintaining database objects; and, maintaining database integrity. Ideal for ADO.N

ET programmers at all levels, from the relatively inexperienced to the most sophisticated, this new edition covers the significant 3.5 upgrade, including new programming tools, such as LINQ, that are key to working with WinFS applications. "ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook" offers a painless way for those of you who prefer to learn by doing when it comes to expanding your skills and productivity.

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Hidden Pro WPF with VB 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs.

Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense, practical advice will get you building high–quality WPF applications quickly and easily. MacDonald will take you through a thorough investigation of the more advanced aspects of WPF, and its relation to other elements of the WinFX stack and the .NET Framework 3.5, to complete your understanding of WPF and VB 2008.

WPF’s functionality extends to support for Tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data–driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.

What you’ll learn

* WPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flow
* WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment
* Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees
* WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging
* Graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imaging

Who is this book for?

Developers encountering WPF and .NET 3.5 for the first time in their professional lives.

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C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3

C# in Depth is a completely new book designed to propel existing C# developers to a higher level of programming skill. One simple principle drives this book: exploring a few things deeply rather than offering a shallow view of the whole C# landscape. It is a book for those readers who want just a little more at the end of a typical chapter. Expert author Jon Skeet dives into the C# language, plumbing new C# 2 and 3 features and probing the core C# language concepts that drive them.

This unique book puts the new features into the context of how C# has evolved without a lengthy rehearsal of the full C# language. And it sticks to the language, covering new framework and runtime features only where relevant. C# in Depth is both a vehicle for learning C# 2 and 3 and also a reference work. Although the coverage is deep, the text is always accessible: Readers will explore pitfalls that can trip them up, but the book skips over gnarly details best left to the language specification. The overall effect is that readers become not just proficient in C# 2 and 3, but comfortable that they truly understand the language.

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Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing & More

Taking care to focus solely on those topics that will have the most impact on experienced PHP developers, Pro PHP is written for readers seeking to take their understanding of both PHP and sound software development practices to the next level. Advanced object–oriented features, documentation, debugging, software patterns, and the Standard PHP Library are just a few of the topics covered in extensive detail.

Author and noted PHP expert Kevin McArthur also examines emerging practices and trends such as the MVC architecture as applied to PHP, with special emphasis placed upon the increasingly popular Zend Framework.

With Ajax and web services crucial to the success of todays web applications, the book concludes with several chapters covering JSON, the SOAP extension, and advanced web services topics.

If youre seeking to go beyond the basics, Pro PHP is the book for you.

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Foundations of ASP.NET Ajax

ASP.NET AJAX (formerly code-named `Atlas') are a set of extensions to the existing ASP.NET 2.0 technology that provide a swift, simple environment to create AJAX applications. AJAX programming techniques have become one of the hottest topics in the programming arena. To date, the frameworks available for creating these applications have been complex and have separated the development of the client-side AJAX from the server-side supporting technology. This has made development both slow and difficult.

ASP.NET AJAX is Microsoft's solution to this problem. It combines AJAX with ASP.NET technology and provides a unified set of development tools within Visual Studio 2005. For the first time, AJAX applications can be developed seamlessly in conjunction with a supporting technology.

This book gives readers a deep and detailed grounding in how ASP.NET AJAX works. It takes readers swiftly through the first principals of AJAX, and deep into the heart of the technology where every namespace is discussed and every function considered. By the end of the book readers will know everything that they need to confidently produce cutting-edge ASP.NET AJAX applications swiftly and professionally.

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Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed

Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed presents comprehensive coverage of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Windows users, Mac users, and Linux enthusiasts have been increasingly turning to Ubuntu for a user-friendly, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering Ubuntu. You’ll learn how to set up a workstation productivity software. or a server, and you’ll find complete details on Ubuntu’s easy-to-use desktop and
Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed includes a range of coverage: From the software you need in your everyday work, such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, to how to configure your Linux desktop to run smoothly using multiple printers, shell scripts, and more.

For the hardcore Linux enthusiast, there is complete coverage of the X Window system, Linux programming, web server administration, and network administration.

Install and configure Ubuntu
Get all your system’s devices and peripherals up and running
Configure and use the X Window System
Manage Linux services and users
Run a printer server
Connect to a local network and the Internet
Set up and administer a web server with Apache
Secure your machine and your network from intruders
Learn shell scripting
Share files with Windows users using Samba
Get productive with OpenOffice.org
Play games on Linux
Use Linux multimedia programs
Create and maintain a MySQL database
Configure a firewall
Set up an FTP server
Use Ubuntu’s development and programming tools
Tune your Ubuntu system for maximum performance
Learn to manage and compile the kernel and modules

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Respected, best-selling author Maria Langer takes readers through Mac OS X's groundbreaking capabilities, including new applications such as Time Machine and Spaces and revamped applications such as Mail, Dashboard, Spotlight, and iCal. With plenty of screenshots to clearly illustrate techniques, this reasonably priced guide is a great reference to the essentials of Mac OS X Leopard.

Apple’s next version of its OS, code-named Leopard, will keep Mac users in the forefront of making the most from their computers.

Respected, best-selling author Maria Langer takes readers through Mac OS X’s groundbreaking capabilities, including new applications such as Time Machine and Spaces and revamped applications such as Mail, Dashboard, Spotlight, and iCal. With plenty of screenshots to clearly illustrate techniques, this reasonably priced guide is a great reference to the essentials of Mac OS X Leopard. Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through Mac OS X and show you what to do.
Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.
Page for page, the best content and value around.
Companion Web site offers tips, links, updates, and more at www.marialanger.com/category/book-support/macosquickstart/

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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. "Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual" gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques.To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one - a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time.

Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this "Missing Manual" isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough - and which are duds.With it, you'll learn how to: navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars; use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together; keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature; create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word's Publishing Layout View; build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets; get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery; organize all of your Office projects using Entourage's Project Center; scan or import digital camera images directly into any of the programs; and, customize each program with power-user techniques.

With "Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual", you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time.

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Essential Windows Communication Foundation

"Whether this is the first time or the fifty-first time you're using WCF, you'll learn something new by reading this book." --Nicholas Allen, Program Manager, Web Services, Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the easiest way to produce and consume Web services on the Microsoft platform. With .NET 3.5, WCF has been extensively revamped--and Visual Studio 2008 gives developers powerful new tools for utilizing it. Essential Windows Communication Foundation shows developers exactly how to make the most of WCF with .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Drawing on extensive experience working with early adopters, three Microsoft insiders systematically address the topics developers ask about WCF.

The authors approach each subject with practical advice and present best practices, tips, and tricks for solving problems. Throughout, you'll find detailed explanations, solutions for the "pain points" of WCF development, and an extensive collection of reusable code examples.Coverage includes *Using WCF contracts to define complex structures and interfaces*Understanding WCF's channel stacks and channel model architecture*Configuring the WCF communication stack to use only the protocols you need*Using standard and custom service behaviors to manage concurrency, instances, transactions, and more*Serializing data from .

NET types to XML Infosets and representing Infosets "on the wire" *Hosting WCF services via IIS, managed .NET applications, and Windows Activation Services*WCF security, in depth: authentication; transport and message-level security; and Internet and intranet scenarios*Improving reliability: exception handling, diagnostics, and more*Workflow services: new integration points between WCF 3.5 and Windows Workflow Foundation*Building client-to-client, peer network-based applications*Utilizing WCF for non-SOAP Web services: AJAX and JSON examples and .NET 3.5 hosting classes Microsoft's Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, and Chris Bowen are technology experts at the Microsoft Technology Center in Boston. They specialize in helping customers improve their technical agility by applying WCF and related technologies.Resnick has specialized in Internet technologies and distributed computing at Microsoft since 1995. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and is now technology director for the U.S. Microsoft Technology Centers. Crane has more than 15 years of experience in senior software development roles.

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From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product

Many would–be software entrepreneurs with expertise in many fields attempt to turn a homegrown application—one developed for use in their own business or profession—into a commercial product. Lack of knowledge, experience, or skills often prevents the idea from ever taking shape, let alone achieving its potential. Entering a new field to start a business leaves many developers unprepared and not even fully aware it’s something they know so little about. They will also often have a job that conflicts with the time commitment required to market the program well enough for it to become a complete success.

Do you have an idea for a commercially viable software product or already have a product with the potential for dream financial rewards? Would–be software entrepreneurs must consult From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product, written by software developer and entrepreneur Rocky Smolin, for an indispensable roadmap to creating a commercially successful software product. Smolin shares insights from his own experience and covers topics you may never anticipate but are vital to success, like pricing, documentation, licensing, and tracking customers.

What you’ll learn

Rocky Smolin walks you through the essentials of turning a development project into a product, including
How to determine the best method of licensing your work and how to enforce that license
Choosing the appropriate price, calculating potential revenue, and selecting payment methods, including leasing and support options
Selling products direct to the customer, through retailers, and via other sales channels
Managing technical considerations within your development project, including logos, splash screens, output, error trapping and reporting, and localization/internationalization
Creating attractive packaging and developing an appearance for the product, including within the application itself, supporting documentation, and in external components
Handling marketing, sales, and administration—learn product differentiation, lead generation, prospect tracking, and customer follow–ups

Who is this book for?

From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product is for both the “lone ranger” programmer and small developer teams of 2—3 persons each. If you have a program developed for your own use and would like to commercialize it, but are stymied at the many issues to consider and resolve before selling to the public, you’ll find your answers here. Additionally, if you’re a programmer at the moment with an idea or a desire to try to create a commercially viable application, and you’re motivated by the dream of cash flow, this book is a vital roadmap.

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Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam

Looking to study up for the new J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the brand new J2EE 1.5 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use servlets and JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine.

You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only 'after' you're an expert (or worse, one that puts you to sleep). This book helps you learn how to write servlets and JSPs, what makes a web container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use JSP's Expression Language (EL for short), and how to write deployment descriptors for your web applications.Master the 'c:out tag', and get a handle on exactly what's changed since the older J2EE 1.4 exam. You don't just pass the new J2EE 1.5 SCWCD exam, you'll understand this stuff and put it to work immediately. "Head First Servlets and JSP" doesn't just give you a bunch of facts to memorize; it drives knowledge straight into your brain.You'll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. And when you're through with this book, you can take a brand-new mock exam, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience.

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A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux

The Most Complete, Easy-to-Understand, and Useful Guide to Ubuntu Linux Desktops and Servers Ubuntu Linux is a state-of-the-art operating system, and you need a book that's just as advanced. Along with being the most comprehensive reference to installing, configuring, and working with Ubuntu, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu LinuxA (R) also provides extensive server coverage you won't find in any other Ubuntu book. Best-selling author Mark Sobell begins by walking you through every feature and technique you need to know, from installing Ubuntu-using the DVD included with the book-to working with GNOME, Samba, exim4, Apache, DNS, NIS, firestarter, and iptables. Sobell's exceptionally clear explanations demystify everything from system security to Windows file/printer sharing.

Sobell presents full chapters on using Ubuntu from the command line and GUI; thorough system administration and security guidance; and up-to-the-minute, step-by-step instructions for setting up networks and every major type of Internet server. Along the way, you'll learn both the "hows" and the "whys" of Ubuntu.Sobell knows every Linux nook and cranny: He's taught hundreds of thousands of readers, and never forgets what it's like to be new to Linux.Whether you're a user, administrator, or programmer, this book gives you all you need-and more. Don't settle for yesterday's Ubuntu Linux book...get the ONLY book that meets today's challenges and tomorrow's! This book delivers...* Deeper coverage of the command line and the GNOME GUI, including GUI customization * Coverage of important Ubuntu topics, such as sudo and the new Upstart init daemon.* More practical coverage of file sharing with Samba, NFS, and FTP * More detailed, usable coverage of Internet server configuration including Apache, exim4, and DNS/BIND * More state-of-the-art security techniques, including firewall setup using firestarter and iptables, as well as a full chapter on OpenSSH and an appendix on security * Deeper coverage of "meat-and-potatoes" system and network administration tasks-from managing users to CUPS printing, configuring LANs to building a kernel * A more practical introduction to writing bash shell scripts * Complete instructions on how to keep your Linux system up-to-date using aptitude, Synatpic, and the Software Sources window * And much more...

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Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide

This practical guide has exactly what you need to work with Windows Server 2008. Inside, you'll find step-by-step procedures for using all of the major components, along with discussions on complex concepts such as Active Directory replication, DFS namespaces and replication, network access protection, the Server Core edition, Windows PowerShell, server clustering, and more. All of this with a more compact presentation and a tighter focus on tasks than you'll find in bulkier references. "Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide" takes a refreshing approach.

You won't find the history of Windows NT, or discussions on the way things used to work. Instead, you get only the information you need to use this server. If you're a beginning or intermediate system administrator, you learn how the system works, and how to administer machines running it. The expert administrators among you discover new concepts and components outside of your realm of expertise.

Simply put, this is the most thorough reference available for Windows Server 2008, with complete guides to: installing the server in a variety of different environments; file services and the Windows permission structure; how the domain name system (DNS) works; active directory, including its logical and physical structure, hierarchical components, scalability, and replication; group policy's structure and operation; managing security policy with predefined templates and customized policy plans; and architectural improvements, new features, and daily administration of IIS 7.Its other features include: terminal services from both the administrator's user's point of view; networking architecture including DNS, DHCP, VPN, RADIUS server, IAS, and IPSec; Windows clustering services - applications, grouping machines, capacity and network planning, user account management; and, Windows PowerShell scripting and command-line technology. With "Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide", you can come away with a firm understanding of what's happening under the hood, but without the sense that you're taking a graduate course in OS theory.

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Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web 2

Special Edition Using MicrosoftA (R) ExpressionA (R) Web 2 The only EXPRESSION WEB 2 book you need The successor to the best-selling book on the first release of Microsoft Expression Web, this book provides comprehensive coverage of Microsoft Expression Web 2. You'll learn the basics of Web design and Expression Web 2 and gain valuable insight into Expression Web 2's advanced features, such as ASP.NET and PHP development. If you're interested in learning how to design standards-compliant Web sites using Expression Web 2, this is the only book you need.

* Create standards-compliant Web sites with Expression Web 2 that work consistently in all browsers. * Become proficient in the use of CSS by learning how to use the powerful CSS tools in Expression Web 2. * Learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX without writing any code. * Learn how to use the new PHP features available in Expression Web 2. * Add dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers. * Design your Web site for accessibility using both Section 508 and WCAG compliance. "Expression Web was built to help web authors create standards-based and standards-compliant web sites.Jim Cheshire has a broad understanding of those standards and a deep appreciation of Expression Web.

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Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide 2nd Edition

Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables.

Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS (no JavaScript required). Discover how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get started and build your skills is right here in this book. You'll be stylin' in no time!

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Ajax Security

The Hands-On, Practical Guide to Preventing Ajax-Related Security Vulnerabilities More and more Web sites are being rewritten as Ajax applications. Even traditional desktop software is rapidly moving to the Web via Ajax. But, all too often, this transition is made with no regard for security. If Ajax applications aren't properly designed and coded, they can be susceptible to far more dangerous security vulnerabilities than conventional Web or desktop software. Ajax developers desperately need guidance on securing their applications-knowledge that's been virtually impossible to find until now.

Ajax Security systematically debunks today's most dangerous Ajax myths, illustrating key security concepts with real world source code and detailed case studies of actual exploited Ajax vulnerabilities, such as MySpace's Samy worm. Even more important, it delivers specific, up-to-the-minute recommendations for securing Ajax applications in each major Web programming language and environment, including .NET, Java, and PHP.This book will show you how to * Mitigate unique risks associated with Ajax, including overly granular Web services, application control flow tampering, and manipulation of program logic * Prevent emerging Ajax-specific attacks, including JavaScript hijacking, persistent storage theft, and mashup exploitation * Avoid attacks based on XSS and SQL Injection, including a dangerous Ajax-based SQL Injection variant that can extract an entire backend database with just two requests * Develop secure offline Ajax applications using Google Gears and Dojo * Leverage security built into Ajax frameworks such as Prototype, DWR, and ASP.

NET AJAX, and recognize what you still must implement on your own * Write new Ajax code more safely, and identify and fix security flaws in existing code Ajax Security is an indispensable resource for developers coding or maintaining Ajax applications, architects and development managers planning or designing new Ajax software, and all software security professionals, from QA specialists to penetration testers.

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Advanced Linux 3D Graphics Programming

This book builds upon the foundation set in Norman Lin's Linux 3D Graphics Programming. This second volume provides programmers who are experienced in both Linux and fundamental 3D graphics concepts with a well-rounded perspective on 3D theory and practice within the context of programming larger interactive 3D applications.

Lin's primary goal is to provide a solid understanding of the concepts involved in interactive 3D graphics programming in order to enable the reader to write 3D programs, libraries, and games, and to analyse and understand others' 3D code. By focusing on more than just hard-core 3D algorithms, and by providing detailed information on equally important issues such as 3D modelling, world editing, digital sound, and collision detection, Lin gives the reader sufficient information to program and populate complete 3D worlds under Linux. Lin's careful balance between theory and practice provides both working code examples and a firm theoretical foundation, thereby empowering the reader to become a member of the professional 3D programming community.

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Mobile Web Development

This complete, practical guide to writing mobile websites and applications shows developers how to build a powerful mobile web presence. Readers need knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a server-side language; the examples use PHP, but are easily adapted to other languages. The book does not use J2ME, but uses mobiles' web browsers and other standard features with XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) and Wireless CSS (WCSS).

Examples illustrate each technique, focused on real-world solutions, pragmatic tips, and fast results rather than theory. Whether you want to provide website customers with new ways to access your services, or build applications to keep staff up to date on the road, this book covers it: adapting content to the capabilities of target devices, saving bandwidth with compression, creating server-side logic integrated with a mobile front end, sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and developing voice and touchtone responsive systems.

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Professional ASP.Net Web Services

This book will show you how to create high-quality Web Services using ASP.NET. It describes the standards that are core to the Web Services architecture and examines how these standards are integrated into ASP.NET. The processes involved in building and consuming Web Services are discussed along with in-depth code examples. The book concludes with three case studies, each examining a different application of Web Services, and presenting a complete solution.

This book covers:

Building and consuming Web Services in ASP.NET

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Discovering Web Services with UDDI

Exposing data sources through Web Services

Performance techniques

Securing Web Services

Transactional Web Services

.NET My Services (Hailstorm)

The code in this book is presented in C#. Full Visual Basic .NET versions of all code samples and case studies are available along with C# downloads on the Wrox website.

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Java EE 5 Development Using GlassFish Application Server

This is a guide to developing Java EE 5 applications deployed to the high-performance, Java EE 5-compliant GlassFish application server, which is quickly gaining massive popularity.

After GlassFish installation and configuration, it covers application development, including all major Java EE 5 APIs: JSPs, JSTL, Servlets, and JSF for web applications; the Java Persistence API and JDBC to interact with RDBMS; EJB 3, including container-managed transactions and EJB declarative security through annotations; the JMS API for messaging; the JAAS API for secure applications; frameworks built on the Java EE 5 specification, including Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf. It is aimed at Java developers wishing to become proficient with Java EE 5, who are expected to have some experience with Java and J2EE technologies and to have developed and deployed applications in the past, but need no previous knowledge of Java EE, and will teach the reader how to use GlassFish to develop and deploy applications.

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Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Lifecycle Guide

The storage and management of Meta Data is a vitally important part of data warehouse development. However, the whole field of data warehousing has moved so rapidly in recent years that an agreed set of standards are still not yet in place. This means that David Marco's Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository is brave because the one certainty is that it will be out of date in short order.

(In fact it is out of date already because it doesn't refer to the important announcement made recently by the OMG--Object Management Group--which points the way to embracing XML as the unifying factor). By the same token, any book that covers this important and rapidly changing field is worth reading if you need to get a feel for the issues involved.

Marco's definition of meta data is "knowledge of systems, business, competition, customers, products and markets", encompassing technical data to enable technical staff to maintain systems on a physical level and business data so users can access the data they need to run the business. Three chapters set the scene, describing meta data, its uses and the state of standards for meta data repositories. The remaining eight chapters deal in detail with implementation issues. So, if you are building a data warehouse, and don't know why meta data is important, this is an excellent book to buy.

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Professional Windows DNA: Building Distributed Web Applications with VB, COM+, MSMQ, SOAP, and ASP

Building distributed web applicationsActive Directory. Using this architecture, you can design and build scalable enterprise-level distributed applications on the Windows 2000 platform. is a wide-ranging topic, covering a variety of technologies and techniques. Windows DNA is the name given to the combination of traditional n-tier architecture with the intrinsic Windows 2000 services, including COM+, MSMQ, and

This book takes an in-depth look at the DNA architecture, focusing on fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. Each of the logical tiers is examined, with particular emphasis placed on the features COM+ contains to make component building simpler and more powerful.

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for anyone involved with building distributed web applications that want to see the bigger picture. As such the book assumes a working knowledge of VB and ASP in places, but the emphasis is not so much on the code as on where each of the pieces fit into the puzzle. It’s designed to give you an idea of how each area or technology affects you, enabling you to make informed decisions about whether to pursue a subject further, or confidently assert that you can do without it.

What Does This Book Cover?

DNA architectural overview

COM+ including Transactions, Events, and Queued Components
Variable client richness and building rich clients
MSMQ
Business Objects
SOAP
Universal Data Access
Directory Services
Scalability and Availability
Security and Debugging
Case Studies showing actual implementation

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Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL — A Learner’s Guide

Is your data dragging you down? Are your tables all tangled up? Well we’ve got the tools to teach you just how to wrangle your databases into submission. Using the latest research in neurobiologyHead First SQL has a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.

Maybe you’ve written some simple SQL queriesHead First SQL will show you the fundamentals of SQL and how to really take advantage of it. We’ll take you on a journey through the language, from basic INSERT statements and SELECT queries to hardcore database manipulation with indices, joins, and transactions. We all know “Data is Power” - but we’ll show you how to have “Power over your Data”. Expect to have fun, expect to learn, and expect to be querying, normalizing, and joining your data like a pro by the time you’re finished reading!, cognitive science, and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory SQL learning experience, to interact with databases. But now you want more, you want to really dig into those databases and work with your data.

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Microsoft Access 2007 Data Analysis

*Data analysis is the process of categorizing data into groups, translating large amounts of data into meaningful information, and performing a wide variety of calculations in a fraction of the time it would normally take by hand

*Showing readers how to save time and increase productivity, this unique book explains how to analyze data using the latest version of Microsoft Access, the world's leading PC database system *Practical, real-world scenarios demonstrate the benefits of using Access for data analysis, show how to avoid common pitfalls of everyday data crunching, and illustrate the differences and similarities between Access and Excel data analysis *Explains how to analyze large amounts of data and report findings in an easily understood manner, automate redundant analysis, and get better visibility into data from different perspectives

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML

* The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site

* After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0
* Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data, XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services

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Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference

"Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference" is a language tutorial and a reference guide to the upcoming Orcas release of Visual Basic. The tutorial provides basic material suitable for beginners but also includes in-depth content for more advanced developers. The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features.

The entries in these appendices allow the reader to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events."Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference" will be fully revised (30 percent) to cover the latest features of the Orcas release, including: changes to variable declaration and initialization XLinq support for XML data types; query comprehensions for using SQL-like syntax to extract data from arrays and other data structures; extension methods for adding new features to existing classes; nested subroutines and functions; anonymous subroutines and functions ("lambda expressions"); nullable types; relaxed delegates; dynamic interfaces; and, dynamic identifiers.

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Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform

Creating Mobile Games: Using Java(tm) ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice:

* Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site)
* Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
* Covers the new MIDP3

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The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks, 2nd Edition

The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition is a collection of powerful PHP 5 solutions to the most common programming problems.

Featuring best-practice code and a commonsense approach to development, this book includes coverage of:

Manage errors gracefully.
Build functional forms, tables, and SEO-friendly URLs.
Reduce load time with client- and server-side caching.
Produce and utilise web services with XML.
Secure your site using access control systems.
Easily work with files, emails, and images.
And much more...
The question and answer format will allow you to to quickly find and reference any of the 101 solutions, saving you hours of Internet research or painful trial & error. All solutions are fully explained and the ready-to-use code is available for download.

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Managing Microsoft's Remote Installation Services

The authors have been working with Remote Installation Services since its birth in 1999. We are really enthusiastic about working with it.

From their experiences from very different customers with very different requirements to their Windows infrastructure environment, they have gained a tremendous deal of experience and in-depth knowledge with Remote Installation Services that other people can benefit from. This includes basic understanding, a lot of theory and best-practices, but also how you can stretch Remote Installation Services to really do what any system or network administrator would require. This information is essential for anyone wishing to implement Remote Installation Services and use the advanced features and tools it contains. There is much more than up grades, adding and deleting programs from a central administrator that can be done. In addition, it can save the cost adding a costly third party software package like Alteris to the enterprise network.

This is the reason that the authors are now gathering all the experience and knowledge, and focusing on forming a single point of entry to everything you must know about Remote Installation Services in form of a book. Note based on my (TRS) and reviewers comments the book will be over 320 pages as authors ad numerous consulting client examples and illustrations. Book is excellent companion to "Windows and Exchange" series and WMI books by Lissoir. Authors are top quality IBM Consultants. It gives Network and Systems Administrators real tools to manage up grades, program modifications and system and security related tools. It presents a balance of theory and methods with best-practices the authors have developed in their consulting work. It shows how an enterprise can save the cost adding a costly third party software package like Alteris to the enterprise network.

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CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847191746
  

CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm.

This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible.

• Clear, structured tutorial on working with CodeIgniter
• Careful explanation of the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and its MVC architecture
• Using CodeIgniter with databases, HTML forms, files, images, sessions, and email
• Building a dynamic website quickly and easily using CodeIgniter's prepared code

Improve your PHP coding productivity with this guide to the powerful and popular CodeIgniter framework.

• Setting up the CI package on your web server
• Understanding the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for organizing a dynamic website
• Understanding the structure of a CI site
• Designing better views and controllers
• Object-oriented aspects of CI
• Integrating databases such as MySQL and simplifying your database access
• Making your site more robust and professional by using CI's built-in classes
• Creating and validating HTML forms with CI form helpers
• Handling files, images, and sessions with CI
• Sending email from CI
• Using CI for testing your code with error handling, unit testing, benchmarking, and profiling
• Getting an XML-RPC server and client working
• Generating Create, Update, Delete, and Read (C.R.U.D) entries on each database table

This book steps you through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining them clearly with illustrative code examples.

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Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008

• Paperback: 1498 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 2 edition (November 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598938
  

ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 raises the bar for high-quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution.

Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this groundbreaking new technology. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the brand-new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 3.5 applications in the best possible style.

The book will teach you ASP.NET 3.5 starting with core concepts to more advanced topics. You will learn

• Core concepts of ASP.NET 3.5. Why it’s special. What it’s fundamental principals are. The basics of Visual Studio. How ASP.NET 3.5 controls are created, and how they fit into ASP.NET 3.5 pages, ultimately creating full applications
• Data access details. The intricacies of ADO.NET and how to perform data binding to many sources from databases to file streams to XML. We include LINQ coverage so you’re on the bleeding edge
• Security. Once considered the Achilles heel of all Windows web applications, security has vastly improved and is a cornerstone of ASP.NET 3.5. This section explains the various forms of available security, and how to best apply them
• Taking things further using advanced user interface techniques. This includes user controls, customer server controls, client-side JavaScript, and GDI+.
• Web services. In an increasingly connected world, working with web services grows in importance. This book will show you how to work with them.
• ASP.NET AJAX, with an emphasis on comtemporary web development techniques
• Development using Internet Information Services 7, Microsoft’s premier web hosting platform.
• And much more.

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Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (August 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931836655
  

"Cybercrime and cyber-terrorism represent a serious challenge to society as a whole." - Hans Christian Krüger, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Crime has been with us as long as laws have existed, and modern technology has given us a new type of criminal activity: cybercrime. Computer and network related crime is a problem that spans the globe, and unites those in two disparate fields: law enforcement and information technology.

This book will help both IT pros and law enforcement specialists understand both their own roles and those of the other, and show why that understanding and an organized, cooperative effort is necessary to win the fight against this new type of crime.

62% of US companies reported computer-related security breaches resulting in damages of $124 million dollars. This data is an indication of the massive need for Cybercrime training within the IT and law enforcement communities.

The only book that covers Cybercrime from forensic investigation through prosecution. Cybercrime is one of the battlefields in the war against terror.

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Hacking Windows Vista: ExtremeTech

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (May 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470046872
  

Vista is the most radical revamping of Windows since 1995. But along with all the fantastic improvements, there are a couple of things that drive you up the wall. Maybe you're not seeing the performance you expect. Security is better, but boy, is it annoying. And what's with that interface thing that's just in the way? Well, you can fix all that. When you and Steve Sinchak are finished, you'll think Microsoft designed Vista just for you.

How to improve the view

A few of the things you'll learn to do

1. Tweak logon screen settings

2. Build custom Sidebar gadgets

3. Personalize Aero Glass with themes and visual styles

4. Customize Internet Explorer® 7

5. Configure BIOS for maximum boot speed

6. Crank up Windows® Explorer

7. Turn your PC into an HDTV Media Center

8. Fine-tune your firewall
   

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Security Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 1 edition (July 16, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587052709

Cisco® Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS) is a next-generation Security Threat Mitigation system (STM). Cisco Security MARS receives raw network and security data and performs correlation and investigation of host and network information to provide you with actionable intelligence. This easy-to-use family of threat mitigation appliances enables you to centralize, detect, mitigate, and report on priority threats by leveraging the network and security devices already deployed in a network, even if the devices are from multiple vendors.

Security Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS helps you plan a MARS deployment and learn the installation and administration tasks you can expect to face. Additionally, this book teaches you how to use the advanced features of the product, such as the custom parser, Network Admission Control (NAC), and global controller operations. Through the use of real-world deployment examples, this book leads you through all the steps necessary for proper design and sizing, installation and troubleshooting, forensic analysis of security events, report creation and archiving, and integration of the appliance with Cisco and third-party vulnerability assessment tools.

Learn the differences between various log aggregation and correlation systems

• Examine regulatory and industry requirements
• Evaluate various deployment scenarios
• Properly size your deployment
• Protect the Cisco Security MARS appliance from attack
• Generate reports, archive data, and implement disaster recovery plans
• Investigate incidents when Cisco Security MARS detects an attack
• Troubleshoot Cisco Security MARS operation
• Integrate Cisco Security MARS with Cisco Security Manager, NAC, and third-party devices
• Manage groups of MARS controllers with global controller operations

This security book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology Series. Security titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals secure critical data and resources, prevent and mitigate network attacks, and build end-to-end self-defending networks.

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Half Life 2 Mods For Dummies

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; Pap/Cdr edition (January 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470096314
  

Modify gameplay, add textures, and integrate amazing effects

Develop intense environments, then share your design with players online

How cool would it be to build your own levels and customized weapons for Half-Life 2? This book will get you ready to mod so you can enjoy the ultimate gaming experience. You'll find out how to create your own maps, strategically place high-tech military equipment, and modify your levels for smoother play.

Discover how to

• Design maps and playing levels
• Load your creation into the game
• Expand your map with additions
• Include armor and weapons
• Distribute levels on the Web

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Hacking Wireless Networks For Dummies

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (September 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764597302

Discover how to:

• Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system
• Combat denial of service and WEP attacks
• Understand how invaders think
• Recognize the effects of different hacks
• Protect against war drivers and rogue devices

Become a cyber-hero - know the common wireless weaknesses ""Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional."" --Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program Wireless networks are so convenient - not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who'd like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network's armor.

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