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Written by Whil Hentzen Edited by
Chris Herborth |
Major Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE, among others, have released mature, full-featured versions suitable for day to day use on an average computer user's day to day computer, including not only a complete operating system but also a Microsoft Office-compatible application suite and a plethora of additional tools available for free download. At the same time, more and more people are become frustrated with Microsoft's continuing security problems and privacy, licensing and pricing issues. As a result, Linux is making serious inroads on the desktop in 2004.
But today's experienced computer user doesn't have time to set up and learn a new operating system and programs alone. This book shows an ordinary computer user who is comfortable with using Microsoft Windows and associated popular applications how Linux works and how using it is similar in many ways to their current software. |
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Written by Ken Chazotte Edited by
Joe Johnston |
Have you been frustrated by the steep learning curve associated with most frameworks? Then build your own! Building your own framework can be a challenging…and rewarding experience.
“Build Your Own Framework” provides detailed guidelines for developers who wish to develop their own framework. In each chapter, you will see how to move from requirements into design and from design into implementation as you build “MyFrame”, the sample framework included with the book. “Build Your Own Framework” also walks you through the development of several developer tools that will bring a real boost in productivity to your development efforts. |
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Written by Michael Jang Edited by
Elizabeth Zinkann |
Linux has always been popular as a Web
server, but its penetration into the desktop market continues to grow in
2003. At the same time, companies are getting increasingly tired of
security problems and privacy, licensing and pricing issues with
Microsoft Windows. As a result, more and more companies are taking a
look at using Linux as a file server that communicates with both their
Windows and Linux desktops. This book delves into how the Linux
operating is constructed and how it works, all from the point of view of
an administrator experienced both with computers in general and Windows
architecture in particular. Then it covers the installation and
configuration of a network file server, with user management as well as
file and directory sharing, again, discussed with the perspective of a
Windows network administrator in mind |
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Written by Alan Bourke
Edited by Mark Austen |
There are still a lot of
applications written in Foxpro for DOS and
Foxpro for Windows running successfully on modern networks, and a lot
of people who install and support them.
This book describes how FoxPro/DOS and FoxPro/Windows applications run
on current versions of Windows, to describe the best approaches for
configuring the environment in which a multi-user legacy FoxPro
application runs, and to suggest ways of handling problems. |
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Written by Kerry Nietz |
"Much has been written about the
battles that go on between software
companies over market share. FoxTales is the story about one such
battle, told from the perspective of a foot soldier--my perspective."
"When I started working for Fox Software as a young college grad, it
was
a company of barely over thirty people. It shared space in a small bank
building located in the town of Perrysburg-on the edge of Ohio's farm
country. It was a quaint, family-run business and its product,
FoxBASE+, was a niche player."
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Written by Tamar E Granor
Edited by Scott Carr, Sam Hiser |
OpenOffice.org is the leading
Open Source Office suite of applications,
incorporating a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation tool, a
drawing tool, a formula builder, and a sophisticated programming
language. With over a million users worldwide as of the summer of 2002,
OOo is providing very real competition to Microsoft Office because of
its robust feature set, low price (it can be downloaded from the
Internet for free or can be purchased for the cost of the CDs), and
lack of onerous licensing and registration requirements. |
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Written by Craig Berntson
Edited by Dan Jurden |
Crystal Reports is a powerful
reporting tool that can seamlessly
integrate into your application. In Crystal Reports Application
Development, Craig Berntson shows you how to take advantage of the RDC
so you can provide your users with printing, previewing, and report
design capabilities. You’ll also learn how to determine which
components to distribute and how to troubleshoot problems when they
occur on the user’s computer. If you’re developing reporting tools with
Crystal Reports, this is a must have book. |
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Written by Andy Kramek, Marcia Akins, & Rick Schummer,
edited by Steve Dingle
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Answers the “How do I….” questions every programmer has about
using Visual FoxPro with other programs, tools and applications.
Contains hundreds of specific “how to” descriptions, each containing
numerous tips and tricks.
With its native data engine, rich object oriented language, and
capabilities to produce COM servers and consume Web services, Visual
FoxPro is the single most flexible programming tool available to a
software developer. But nothing stands alone anymore. This book will
show you how to extend the scope and power of Visual FoxPro as a
development tool by integrating it with other software and
technologies. Click
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Written Kevin McNeish, edited by Cathi Gero
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Visual FoxPro is one of the best Microsoft tools for creating
desktop, client-server, and Web applications. However, it would be a
mistake to ignore .NET. Microsoft has put a lot of resources into
making .NET a revolutionary platform for creating both desktop and
Internet application software.
If you’re simply curious about what .NET offers, this book provides a
strong overview of the .NET Framework and the C# and Visual Basic .NET
languages, helping you to assess these new technologies through the
lens of Visual FoxPro. If you’re already “sold” and are ready to learn
specifics about how to use .NET in your software development projects,
this book provides plenty of “how to”, “step-by-step” and “best
practices” information that will help you climb the .NET learning curve
and get up and running quickly Click
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Written by Whil Hentzen, edited by Patricia A. Nowak
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There are plenty of books that show you how to write
applications in a specific language. They do a marvelous job of
explaining the nuts and bolts of the syntax and the use of the tools to
build applications with the latest features and functionality
available. There are also a number of fine books that show you how to
be "a computer consultant." But there are a whole host of issues
specific to the business of writing, delivering and supporting custom
software systems. The Software Developer’s Guide, Third Edition, is the
only book that will take you on a step-by-step tour of the entire
process. “DevGuide 3”, with over 150 pages of new material, shows you
how to do "The Other 90%" of the work involved in producing custom
software applications. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Tamar E. Granor, Doug Hennig, Kevin McNeish, edited
by Alex Wieder
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What's new in Visual FoxPro 7.0? Lotsa stuff!!!!! Read All
About It Here! Visual FoxPro 7.0 has been called the most revolutionary
upgrade since 3.0. Whether you agree or not, there's a lot of new stuff
in the latest to appear from the Fox labs in Redmond - and you won't
find a better, more concise guide of what's new, and how to use it,
than in this compendium put together by three of the finest Fox
developers on the planet. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Harold Chattaway, Randy Pearson, Whil Hentzen,
edited by Barbara Peisch
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Web Connection is an incredible product, enabling you to build
high performance, feature-rich, database-enabled websites using the
language you know and love - Visual FoxPro. But, as more than one
developer has said, "it's a bitch to learn." This book is your personal
tutor, walking you through the plumbing of the Internet and the World
Wide Web, showing you how to build your first VFP-based web site step
by step, and then how to add features and improve your productivity by
exploiting the multitude of built-in classes that Web Connection
offers. A must-read for every Web Connection developer! Click
here for more details. Link to author's book
site.
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Written by Cathy Pountney edited by Dave Aring
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Reports are key to a successful software application. It
doesn’t matter how efficiently the users can enter data, how much
information the system can store or how many complicated calculations
the system can process if there’s no way to see the final outcome. In
The Visual FoxPro Report Writer, Cathy Pountney tells you how to use
every nook and cranny of the report writer, and even shows you how to
do things you thought were up to now impossible. If you’re serious
about quality output from your VFP applications, you can’t do without
this book! Click
here for more details. Link to author's
book site.
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Written by Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Doug Hennig and Della
Martin
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An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Tells
you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and
method of Visual FoxPro 7.0. The eagerly awaited revision to the
Hacker’s Guide for Visual FoxPro 6.0, this completely updated book is
the one you’ll keep by your side for as long as you develop in Visual
FoxPro. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Nancy Folsom edited by Kelly Conway
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In “Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications”, Nancy Folsom takes
you into the head of a successful debugger, gives you a new perspective
on the mind set, and then explores the myriad of tools that Visual
FoxPro programmers have at their disposal. Debugging will always be
challenging, but with Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications, it will
also be a more fruitful and rewarding quest. Click
here for more details. Link to
author's book site.
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Written by Ted Roche, edited by Larry C. Whipple
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Essential SourceSafe is the training aid and reference manual
for casual users, software developers and SourceSafe administrators in
installing, configuring and maintaining SourceSafe in a variety of
development environments. This book covers a broad spectrum of topics,
from the basics of installation and maintenance, to more advanced
features such as reporting, to very advanced features like automation. Click
here for more details. Link to author's book
site.
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Written by Cindy Winegarden and Evan Delay, edited by Tamar E.
Granor
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Covers both the Desktop and Distributed exams in one book!
Visual FoxPro certification is the way for you to present contract
customers and employers with an objective assessment of your technical
skills as Visual FoxPro developer. Microsoft certification also
provides contract customers and employers with additional confidence in
their decision to contract with, or hire you as they solve business
problems and move forward in our data-driven, digital economy. Click
here for more details. Link to
author's book site.
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Written by Bob Archer and Dan Jurden, edited by Mike Feltman
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Visual FoxExpress has been helping FoxPro developers build
feature rich Fox applications for longer than anyone else. VFE 6.0
allows developers to create complex, true multi-tier applications with
the same style and flair of earlier versions. There’s a lot to VFE,
though, that can’t be learned just from the tutorial and reference
guide. With Creating Visual FoxPro Applications with Visual FoxExpress,
you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of application development with VFE,
starting with setting up a project and continuing on through user
interfaces, reports, and security. Bob Archer and Dan Jurden have years
of VFE experience under their belts, and it shows as you’ll learn
dozens of tips and tricks while getting a firm grounding on the entire
application development process. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Chuck Urwiler, Gary DeWitt, Mike Levy and Leslie
Koorhan, edited by Chaim Caron
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Visual FoxPro is the perfect front end for client-server
applications. Its robust user interface, native local data engine and
integral hooks into binding with remote data sources, and rich object
model, combined with the powerful SQL Server database engine are an
unbeatable combination. But with power and flexibility comes potential
complexity. Client-Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL
Server will teach you how to put these two powerful tools together and
take advantage of the best features of both. Urwiler, DeWitt, Levy and
Koorhan together have decades of real-world client-server application
building as well as the broad, in-depth knowledge gained only through
hundreds of hours of classroom training. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Andy Kramek, Marcia Akins, & Rick Schummer,
edited by John Hosier
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1001 Things provides the granular “how-to” techniques of every
area of traditional Visual FoxPro application development. It's the
perfect intermediary between Hackers Guide and Effective Techniques.
The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro is the exhaustive command and
function reference to the Visual FoxPro language. Effective Techniques
for Application Development with Visual FoxPro shows you big picture
and in-depth strategies for building apps. In between these two
classics comes 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro.
Contains over 500 pages of “tips, tricks and traps.” Click
here for more details. Link to author's book
site.
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Written by Tamar E. Granor and Della Martin, edited by Ted
Roche
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Visual FoxPro developers are used to building large, complex
applications using only VFP as their programming environment. But
Windows users are demanding more – integration with other applications
such as the Microsoft Office suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and
Outlook. Visual FoxPro can be used to automate – either visually or
behind the scenes – any task or process that you could do manually in
Office – plus much more. In Microsoft Office Automation with Visual
FoxPro, you’ll learn how to create powerful applications that span the
entire Office suite, using Visual FoxPro in the driver’s seat. Granor
and Martin have used Office Automation to perform a wide variety of
complex, rigorous Automation tasks, including the assembly and
production of the enormous Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro and large
parts of the JFAST output modules used to brief the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Whil Hentzen, edited by Doug Hennig
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Whether you're completely new to Visual FoxPro, an old hand
with FoxPro 2.x but new to the Visual world, or comfortable with VFP
3.0/5.0 but needing to know what's new in "Tahoe", The Fundamentals has
the information you need to build LAN, Client/Server and multi-tier
distributed Visual Studio applications on a Visual FoxPro foundation.
The sequel to Whil’s "Programming VFP 3.0," this volume covers the
basics of developing a wide range of applications quickly, covers all
of the new commands, functions, features and tools of Visual FoxPro
6.0, and then describes, step-by-step, how to build a variety of
applications with VFP as the foundation. Required reading for everyone
opening up the box. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Markus Egger, edited by Mac Rubel
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Looking for that perfect book that combines the proper amounts
of OOP theory and real-world practical wisdom, all from the Visual
FoxPro point of view? Look no further. You know how to create your own
base classes, and you know that VFP doesn’t support multiple
inheritance. But you’re looking for a guiding hand to take you to the
next step. Covers multi-tiered architecture, OO design patterns, object
metrics, and a whole section on OO requirements, modeling, and design,
including the UML. Click
here for more details.
Link to author's book site.
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Written by Rick Strahl, edited by Gary DeWitt
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Learn how to build large, mission critical Internet database
applications using Tahoe as the foundation. Covers server side web
applications, including ASP (ODBC and ActiveX automation servers),
FoxISAPI, and advanced web features such as cookies, authentication,
and browser functionality encapsulation. Also delves into non-HTML
distributed applications and remote data services. Click
here for more details. Link to
author's book site.
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Written by Tamar E. Granor and Ted Roche, edited by Doug
Hennig
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An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works. Tells
you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and
method of "Tahoe." The eagerly awaited revision to the Hacker’s Guide
for Visual FoxPro 3.0, this completely updated book is the one you’ll
keep by your side for as long as you develop in Visual FoxPro. Click
here for more details.
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Written by Jim Booth and Steve Sawyer, edited by Steve Dingle
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You've been through a couple of intro books, perhaps worked
with the samples some. Maybe even struggled through a small
application. Now it's time for a pair of industry veterans to guide you
through industrial strength application development. "Tahoe" provides
more different ways of doing things than any 5 other development
products put together. Deciding which features and techniques are
appropriate for a particular situation isn’t always obvious. Let Jim
and Steve share with you the insights acquired through a combined 7
years of experience with Visual FoxPro. Click
here for more details.
Link to author's book site.
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