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Pro Excel 2007 VBA is the complete guide to creating Excel VBA applications, including covering all the new features in Excel 2007. Covering object–oriented programming techniques, debugging, and error handling methodologies, this book quickly turns novice into expert as it explores COM and .NET components and the advantages of compiled code. The book also covers XML for Excel web development.

This book is unique insomuch that author Jim DeMarco is a true expert in the field of Excel programming, and he conveys the VBA story in the context of the real world. Not just another dry programming guide, Pro Excel 2007 VBA is a journey from novice to expert where the author is your traveling companion. Bon voyage.
What you’ll learn

• Create automated forms for data collection.
• Mmanipulate lists and create data views.
• Manipulate web–based data.
• Integrate with other Office applications.
• Master Excel’s XML tools.
• Understand and build security into your applications. Download Now »

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The Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. Facebook API Developers Guide covers the use and implementation of the Facebook API-what the key features are and how you can access them. You will learn, through practical examples, the main features of the Facebook API including an introduction to the API-specific languages FQL and FBML. These examples are further supported by the introduction of other technologies like language libraries, relational database management systems, and XML.

* Covers all key features of the Facebook API
* Explains the API languages FQL and FBML
* Teaches by example, with useful code and tips you can use in your own applications
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Beginning XML with C# 2008 focuses on XML and how it is used within .NET 3.5. As you’d expect of a modern application framework, .NET 3.5 has extensive support for XML in everything from data access to configuration, from raw parsing to code documentation. This book demystifies all of this. It explains the basics of XML as well as the namespaces and objects you need to know in order to work efficiently with XML. You will see clear, practical examples that illustrate best practices in action. With this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know from the basics of reading and writing XML data to using the DOM, from LINQ and SQL Server integration to SOAP and web services.

What you’ll learn

• The basics of XML in .NET 3.5
• Validating and transforming XML
• Using XML with LINQ
• Integrating with ADO.NET, SQL Server, and WCF
• Configuring the .NET Framework with XML

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This beginning guide reviews HTML and also introduces you to using XHTML for the structure of a web page and cascading style sheets (CSS) for controlling how a document should appear on a web page. Youll learn how to take advantage of the latest features of browsers while making sure that your pages still work in older, but popular, browsers. By incorporating usability and accessibility, youll be able to write professional-looking and well-coded web pages that use the latest technologies.

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Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS 2nd Edition

Offering a new approach to a familiar topic, this book teaches you how to create pages for the web as it exists today—and how it will be for the foreseeable future. The time for using only HTML coding to write a web page is gone. As the Web has advanced, so have the technologies you need to learn in order to create effective and attractive web pages. This beginning guide reviews HTML and also introduces you to using XHTML for the structure of a web page and cascading style sheets (CSS) for controlling how a document should appear on a web page.

Updated with modern examples, the book explores the evolution of web browsers and how they reflect the way web pages have developed. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the latest features of browsers while still making sure that your pages still work in older, but popular, browsers. In addition, you’ll discover how to write web pages for the many devices that are able to access the web. By incorporating usability and accessibility, you’ll be able to write professional-looking and well-coded web pages that use the latest technologies. Download Now »

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Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers. This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen’s FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture.

In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology to SOA for:

* Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and new devices in an ever changing environment
* Data aggregation in the SOA middle-tier for off-line browsing, service acceleration through mid-tier caching and transformation, and bandwidth-needs reduction
* Increased service and application scalability and performance
* Successful evaluations of application server, XML parser, relational and native XML database, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Integration server, workflow server, and Web Service tools for performance, scalability, and developer productivity
* Improved service governance through XML persistence in SOA registries and repositories
* Composite data services (CDS) to provide maximum reuse of software components and data, accelerate performance, and reduce development time and maintenance in your SOA
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• Offers professional-level instruction in Web page design in a unique visual format, with most tasks demonstrated on self-contained two-page spreads
• Key tasks covered include setting up a Web page, reducing image resolution, creating radio buttons, adding a hit counter, creating an inline frame, and adding an embedded sound
• High-resolution screen shots accompanied by succinct explanations clearly illustrate each task, while “Apply It” and “Extra” sidebars highlight useful tips
• Companion Web site features all the code that appears in the text-ready to plug into the user’s Web pages Download Now »