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If you want to use Visio for Enterprise Architects to quickly design and create enterprise software, this is the book for you.

The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects is a formidable combination. Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out and generating databases, and aiding the development of distributed systems. Visio’s integration with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect means that C# or Visual Basic(r) .NET code can be generated from UML diagrams, thus giving your projects a significant kick-start, and Visual Studio .NET projects can also be reverse engineered to UML models.

This book will finally help you make the most of Visio’s time- and labor-saving features, and unleash Visio’s power for your enterprise development.

To use this book you must be comfortable with the basic concepts of UML.

What you will learn from this book
* Diagramming business components in Visio
* Generating code from UML models
* Reverse engineering Visual Studio .NET projects into UML models, with or without source code Download Now »

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SQL Server reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.

Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you’ll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access.

What you will learn from this book
* Details of programming reports and report scripting
* Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links and dynamic content
* High-level strategies for business and support systems
* Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET 10 namespace classes, and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling options
* How to design reports for mobile services
* Various tools used to define data sources and semantic metadata models
* How to use parameters and expressions to define creative report solutions
* Advanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examples in C# and VB 2005.
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SQL Server 2000 is the latest and most powerful version of Microsoft’s data warehousing and relational database management system.

Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design provides an outline of the techniques that the designer can employ to make effective use of the full range of facilities that SQL Server 2000 offers. It attempts to move away from traditional texts on relational database design by considering design issues from a ‘real world’ point of view. To that end, it provides a full case study illustrating the scope of the designer’s role – right from initial discussions regarding a client’s needs, through development of a logical model, to full implementation of the system.

From the Publisher
This book is aimed at developers who have an interest in learning more about general relational database design issues. While it will aid the reader to have a familiarity with SQL Server and the Transact-SQL language, this book has a wider appeal for any experienced database programmers wishing to learn more about relational database theory and design.
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Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework

LINQ and the Entity Framework are revolutionizing .NET database programming. With this book as your guide, you’ll discover how to leverage these cutting-edge query and object/relational mapping technologies for enterprise-class computing. It provides you with hands-on coding techniques for data-intensive web and Windows projects. You’ll also get quickly up to speed on LINQ technologies with the help of C# and VB programming examples.

Leading Microsoft database authority Roger Jennings first covers LINQ Standard Query Operators (SQOs) and domain-specific LINQ to SQL, LINQ to DataSet, and LINQ to XML implementations for querying generic collections. He then delves into the ADO.NET Entity Framework, Entity Data Model, Entity SQL (eSQL), and LINQ to Entities. Numerous code examples are integrated throughout the chapters that emulate real-world data sources and show you how to develop C# and VB web site/application or Windows projects.

The information in this book will give you the tools to create and maintain applications that are independent of the underlying relational data.
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Get ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005’s tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code. In this hands-on book, you’ll get proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. Expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing will help you master the advanced features of this language. You’ll learn how to make writing code more effective so that you can quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications.

From the Back Cover
Are you ready to take your applications to the next level by harnessing all of Visual Basic 2005′s unmatched tools for programming, debugging, and refactoring code? In this hands-on book, I’ll share with you proven techniques for developing even the most complex Visual Basic applications. I include expert tips on modeling, user interface design, and testing so that you can master the advanced features of this language.

I’ll first take you through the design activities that are necessary before Visual Basic development can begin. Next I’ll describe the various writing tools that you’ll be able to use to make programming easier and less error-prone. I then focus on various ways to make writing code more effective and cover sophisticated techniques for handling particular tasks. This approach will help you quickly develop and maintain your own amazingly powerful applications. Download Now »

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Professional Palm OS Programming is everything programmers need to create applications for the world’s most popular operating system for handheld devices.

Veteran Palm developer Lonnon Foster, who has been developing commercial applications for the platform since its introduction nearly a decade ago, provides readers with hands-on instruction, lots of code, and advice that only comes from the trenches – giving readers everything they need to build cutting edge applications and take advantage of the features of both Garnet and Cobalt.

Coverage includes:
* Building forms, menus and user interfaces
* Managing memory
* Tying into Palm’s standard applications such as the Calendar, Phonebook, or Tasks
* Storing program data on removable storage cards
* Building network enabled applications
* Creating web applications for Palm
* Working with Palm OS new support for Web Services
* Programm ing for new device features such as jog dials, rocker switches, 5-way navigators
* Working with sounds, graphics, multimedia, and new high-resolution color screens
* Encrypting and decrypting data
* Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and wireless networking
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