books about: microsoft     books:       Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction97 reviews Steve McConnell Microsoft Press, 2004 An Important Read Though this book is filled with debatable opinion and redundant information, it's an important read. Read it if only to keep software engineering topics fresh in your head. Otherwise, if you are already experienced, it's kind of elementary.             CLR via C#, Second Edition (Pro Developer)40 reviews Jeffrey Richter Microsoft Press, 2006 Are you a .NET developer? What? You haven't read this book? Possess a driving license? That probably means you know the mechanics that makes cars work. Thereby the skill necessary to ferry ourselves to and from places in daily life. Wait, what has this gotta do with reviewing a technical computing book? Well, you knew incorrect air pressure worsens tyre grip, accelerates wear & tear, and reduces fuel efficient, right? You knew improper engine tuning ...             Active Directory Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 200076 reviews Robbie Allen O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003 In regular use on my office bookshelf Very handy cookbook reference for my office bookshelf. I've used it a number of times, and it's more than paid for itself in expediting regularly-scheduled inquiries of our AD structure here at GEICO HQ.             Windows NT Shell Scripting (Circle)48 reviews Timothy Hill Sams, 1998 It doesn't get better than this. Now we need a 2nd edition. If you have a bit of programming experience, this book together with access to the NT Resource Kit tools will provide you with the foundation for doing almost anything you could imagine within Windows NT Shell Scripting. The book can be used both as a tutorial and a reference for Windows NT scripting and gives good examples of the commands, tools and concepts covered. For Windows NT, this book ...             FrontPage 2003 (The Missing Manual)32 reviews Jessica Mantaro Pogue Press, 2005 Well worth the money ! ! This manual cleared up a lot of questions I had about Microsoft's FrontPage 2003. Microsoft should be ashamed that they didn't care enough about their users to include this with the program. I'd recommend this to anyone who is having problems understanding FrontPage.             Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire42 reviews James Wallace, Jim Erickson John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1992 Intense, highly relevant Delightful book. Its one flaw is its addictiveness, I couldn't put it down which did cost me sleep (I'm an IT professional with an entrepreneur spirit- your results may vary). The Microsoft/Gates biography is impeccable in its wealth of interesting details and engaging story-telling. Bill Gates is a fantastic decision maker. He would be as successful selling water or space suits, he just ...             Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF)57 reviews Sams Publishing, 2008 Great content to match the great presentation! On first opening this book you are struck by the beautiful full colour pictures and syntax-highlighted code samples. [Though the experience was slightly marred by the tears and damage to the front cover which occurred during shipping, as was also the case with another book in the order.] I did a quick flip through and thought... "Beautiful presentation, but the content looks a bit ...             Programming Windows Presentation Foundation (Programming)53 reviews Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Sells Sells I have both WPF books by Chris Anderson and Adam Nathan. I read initial chapters of both of them but never got so excited to continue reading and got astray into LINQ and other stuff. Then I bought this one from Chris Sells and all I can say is it is much better than both Anderson and Adam book and the book keeps you engaged making you eager to find out what next in very simple terms and ...             Leaving Microsoft to Change the World51 reviews HarperCollins e-books, 2007 Greeting John Namaste John. Kasto Cha?? You have made all Nepalese indebted with your incomparable deeds. You are true hero in our hearts. Yes, we salute you from the core of our heart.             PC Annoyances40 reviews Steve Bass O'Reilly, 2003 Concise, excellent, usable tips I've read many computer books, and I have to say this is one of the most informative. More important, Steve provides hundreds of tips to overcome the small (and large) problems of Windows. It's nice to konw that even a well-known computer columnist experiences the same frustrations we ordinary users do. Happily, he willing to share the solutions he's found. In my first reading, I discovered the ...             Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional27 reviews Cristian Darie, Karli Watson Apress, 2004 Fully functional, basic webstore This is an exeptionally well written book for the beginning webstore developer with It walks you through a complete design of the side with the end result that you have a basic webstore that you could actually take operational. The only weakness in the credit processing section. It's written for a European credit card gateway. It would be nice if one of the more popular US gateways (e.g. ...             C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))25 reviews Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Excellent Tutorial and Reference Book This book is a really great combination between a tutorial and a reference book. What I like the most about it is that it not only explains you how to use the different elements of the C# language and the .NET Framework core namespaces, but it also explains to you how they work in the inside. This gives you a notable insight when you try to understand a strange side-effect in your code. All ...             Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel 2003 Study Guide29 reviews Linda F. Johnson Sybex, 2006 This is the only book you should buy for MOS certification! I am so glad I bought this book in that it went and showed me the little details that you may not always hit in your normal day to day workings of Excel. I also bought Microsoft office step by step but I never got to use it as this book was all I needed! I will be buying the Microsoft Wor dversion next. Oh by the was within two weeks I took the specialist test and passed by quite a bit.             Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft(R) Excel and ...27 reviews Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005 A great how-to book for serious Excel users When picking up this book, I was an advanced Excel user. Having discovered most of its features by trial-and-error, and coming from a fairly solid programming background, I understood well the interaction between the underlying object model and the sheets appearing on the screen to end users. I have also crafted many sophisticated worksheet formulas, and explored just about every suggestion of ...             Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 (Windows.Net)28 reviews Jr., Joseph C. Rattz Apress, 2007 Bought three books on LINQ -this one is the best! I'm an intermediate level C# programmer (I think) and have been using ADO.net with SQL-Server to build a database application for a client. When I read about LINQ earlier this year, it sounded like something too good to be true. I started with a couple of other books, but found practical explanations of getting things to work lacking. I get the impression, the authors are too far advanced and ...             Understanding Active X and Ole (Strategic Technology Series)25 reviews David Chappell Microsoft Press, 1996 great book for a high level understanding of COM This is one of my favorite books. This book gave me an excellent understanding of COM architecture. It's concise and has just the right amount of info. If you are looking for a ready made set of code sample to cut & paste in your project or if you are more interested about 'how' than 'why' of COM then this book is not for you. I have recommended this book and also lent my copy to many. I couldn't ...             Microsoft .NET for Programmers28 reviews Fergal Grimes Manning Publications, 2002 Strong from cover to cover. Now top 5 in my favorites list. I've been through many of the C# books, some from Microsoft Press, and some from O'Reilly, and on and on. For beginners there is no clear winner. However, for experienced programmers looking to expand their knowledge into many of the more advanced areas of C#, I recommended Grimes book, Microsoft .NET for Programmers. It's for intermediate to advanced, and it's quite a bit of fun working through ...             Woody Leonhard Teaches Microsoft Office 97 (Author Teaches)32 reviews Woody Leonhard Que, 1998 Better than the "dummy guides" and lots of fun too! Clear, concise and easy instructions on how to use MS Ofc 97. Points out the good, bad and ugly of Microsoft products. Can turn any novice into more of a professional than he/she ever dreamed of! I recommend this book to anyone who will be working with MS Ofc 97! Don't pass this one up!             Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft .NET ...29 reviews Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005 Passionate About Quality? I don't personally think that all developers will find this book useful. In fact, I have a feeling that some may find it highly useless and disruptive as it is abstract in a sense (one must apply the lessons to each library and scenario independently, taking into consideration many different aspects of usability and readability) and it does require some "retraining" of bad practices which have ...             Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Version 2003 (Pro Developer)28 reviews Francesco Balena Microsoft Press, 2004 Wonderful learning tool and reference This was the first .NET book I purchased, and in many ways if I hadn't bought any others it would have been sufficient. It has thorough coverage of the .NET environment, with lucid code examples in VB.NET. I found the chapters on ADO.NET and the framework internals to be most useful to my job as an ASP.NET developer, but the coverage is deep enough that a person with very little programming ...              search for books addison-wesley, annoyances, applications, beginning, construction, conventions, definitive, developer, developing, development, directory, e-commerce, foundation, framework, frontpage, guidelines, integrated, libraries, microsoft, practical, presentation, professional, programmers, programming, reference, specialist, strategic, technology, understanding, unleashed books:    randomly chosen book: Understanding State Welfare: Social Injustice or Social Exclusion? home  impressum - about us