Sams Teach Yourself More Visual Basic.NET in 21 Days provides step-by-step coverage of the most important new features of Visual Basic.NET and .NET that will allow programmers to begin creating rich Web applications and Web Services. Intermediate programmers gain the knowledge and skills to be able to design professional Windows applications and Web services.

With this book, you can learn the skills of a professional programmer in just 692 pages. Because of its self-paced approach in the first 7 chapters, you can do that whether youre new to Visual Basic.NET or youre upgranding from Visual Basic 6.

If you ve already covered the basics and want to dive deep into VB and .NET topics that professional programmers use most, this is your book. You ll find a quick review of introductory topics-always helpful-before the author team of experts moves you quickly into such topics as data access with ADO.NET, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), security, ASP.NET web programming with Visual Basic, Windows workflow, threading, and more.

AJAX is based on a collection of open and standards-based technologies that can give Web pages you build a responsiveness that rivals what you get in desktop applications. The course starts out with an exploration of the fundamentals of AJAX. Then you’ll go through a few of the more interesting features in javascript that will help you write code that runs in the browser. Next up is an introduction to the five server-side controls that you can use in a Web forms page to reduce the amount of data that has to move between client and server. Then you’ll explore some of the techniques you can use to create applications that give users a good experience with your Web application. Next you’ll look at the AJAX Control Toolkit, a collection of server-side controls and extenders that do a lot of the work that you used to have to write reams of javascript code to accomplish.

Microsoft Excel is the world s most-popular spreadsheet program--used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they ve got one. Excel expert Maria Langer walks readers through the new interface and teaches them the tools they will use throughout the project. From there, she helps them create their first workbook, using formulas, adding formatting, adding a visually rich chart. Readers also learn how to effectively print their spreadsheets and charts--something that s much more confusing than it sounds! Along the way all readers will learn how to create attractive, professional, and effective Excel documents. Each book in the Visual QuickProject Guide series now has a companion website featuring sample project files--making it even easier for users to work through each project as they read through the book. Other features on the companion website may include articles on getting the most out of the topic, a database of frequently asked questions, excerpts from the book, general tips, and more.

In Visual Training Company s tutorial Microsoft Visual Basic for Excel, Pravah Pugh helps you get started by going over macros, the VBA programming language, and the VBA development environment. He then teaches you about the use and creation of functions for Visual Basic for Excel and how to access and save code. You will also learn about cell referencing, labels, names and much more. To get started, simply click one of the topics below.

Visual Build is a powerful tool that enables developers and build masters to easily create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying desktop software, games, web and enterprise applications. Visual Build is RAD for software builds.

In this course, youll learn how to use features of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Basic 2010 to build ASP.NET Web pages. Youll gain an understanding of the architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the various ASP.NET server controls. Youll learn to create consistent web sites using Master Pages, add membership features and configuredeploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, direct users using Site Navigation tools, debug .NET, and to display/edit data using ASP.NET and ADO.NET.

“Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta” released by scene group KOPiE, it helps you to solve the specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family.

LightSwitch is a stand alone Visual Studio product (it will also be available in future versions of Visual Studio Professional and above).  VS Professional gives you a lot of options for building your application, including being able to build top tier enterprise wide apps.  This is very powerful but also presents you with a lot of options to sort out up front as you contemplate your architecture.  With LightSwitch we make it really simple with two choices:  VB or C#!

In this course, youll learn how to use features of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Basic 2010 to build ASP.NET Web pages. Youll gain an understanding of the architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the various ASP.NET server controls. Youll learn to create consistent web sites using Master Pages, add membership features and configuredeploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, direct users using Site Navigation tools, debug .NET, and to display/edit data using ASP.NET and ADO.NET.

Description : Containing numerous contemporary images by leading photographers, this indispensable manual concerning wedding portraits explains posing fundamentals as well as how to create a flattering, feature specific photograph one that focuses on the head, shoulders, arms, legs, or torso in different levels of close ups, from head shots to full lengths. Since posing is the second most challenging aspect of photography and with the added complications of a wedding from the bride`s personal style to her figure and gown it can be very easy for a photographer to make a wrong turn. This perceptive reference provides the perfect place to turn when in need of quick posing strategies and fresh ideas.

The addition of Crystal Reports 9.0 to Visual Studio .NET 2003 offers developers a reporting tool that allows you to turn almost any data into interactive, dynamic content through portals, wireless devices, and Microsoft Office documents. This code–intensive guide takes you step by step through developing reports and incorporating them into applications.

Flash Professional CS5 is such a powerful program that it can seem overwhelming to new or occasional users. With Flash Professional CS5 Visual QuickStart Guide, readers get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of the most recent version of the software. Highlights include working with new-style text in the text-layout framework (practically a mini-page-layout program inside Flash), working with the new Color panel and other updated interface features, a look at the deco tools expanded pattern set, plus creating ActionScript using Flashs improved automatic-code-completion features and code snippets.

This book is a sourcebook for digital wedding photographers, which means that it does not cover how to's or guides etc. Rather it shows you portrait photos from top wedding photographers that work with Amherst Media and gives you ideas for your own poses.