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This book provides a fresh take on Microsoft’s premier collaboration solution. A critical resource if you’re developing on the SharePoint platform, this book features a complete focus on the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Through a thorough treatment of sites, web parts, data management, portal solutions, and business intelligence capabilities, you’ll appreciate author Sahil Malik’s concise yet highly readable text.

With this book, you’ll gain intermediate-level guidance for designing and deploying exciting business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

What you’ll learn

• Write effective SharePoint 2010 solutions that can be used on the Web, through Microsoft Office, and on mobile devices.
• Find out best practices for managing data stored in a SharePoint site and the most effective ways to get value out of it.
• Discover how to write effective web parts and pages and integrate those solutions across other Microsoft technologies.
• Put on your designer hat and create a custom look and feel for your SharePoint site or portal.
• Learn how to use existing data to create business intelligence solutions based on SharePoint sites. Download Now »

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If you’re involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you’ll need. Packed with examples and case studies, Practical Virtualization Solutions is a complete, self-paced, hands-on guide to creating a virtualized environment and driving maximum value from it throughout its entire lifecycle.

Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman present detailed costs, schedules, and deployment plans drawn from actual enterprise virtualization projects. You’ll learn what really works and what doesn’t and discover powerful ways to systematically control the costs of virtualization and streamline its management. The authors offer realistic guidance on choosing the best services to virtualize; selecting the right virtualization software, hardware, and vendor partners; troubleshooting and securing virtualized environments; and much more. Along the way, they answer crucial questions IT professionals face in working with virtualization.

Coverage includes

• Quantifying the time, hardware, labor, and downtime needed to implement virtualization
• Streamlining the transition from physical to virtual
• Comparing VMware ESXi, VMware Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and other virtualization technologies
• Identifying opportunities to reduce cost and improve flexibility with open source virtualization technologies Download Now »

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Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a compendium of practical solutions for busy VB .NET programmers. Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB .NET project by solving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens of code examples in this book. Important new .NET 3.5 technologies, such as Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Language Integrated Query (LINQ), are covered, and each chapter addresses a specific problem domain, including database access, multimedia, XML manipulation, networking, and security. The code is free to download so you can use the recipes immediately.

• Take advantage of quality, ready–made solutions to common Visual Basic programming problems.
• Avoid the tedium of having to reinvent the wheel. Focus instead on the more interesting problems specific to your application.
• Learn from and be inspired by what the authors have done. Use their work as stepping stones to solve even more complex problems.

What you’ll learn

• Cleanly separate user–interface logic from business logic through the use of .NET 3.5’s WPF.
• Store data to and retrieve data from your relational database using LINQ.
• Manipulate XML data using LINQ.
• Make your programs dynamically configurable through the judicious application of reflection.
• Take advantage of multiple CPU cores by writing multithreaded applications.
• Integrate multimedia into your Visual Basic projects. Download Now »

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This book is designed to teach the FileMaker Pro developer about XML and XSL.

Suitable for both PC and Macintosh users. Designed to help the FileMaker Pro developer understand what XML is and how to create XML documents for the purpose of facilitating data exchange. In FileMaker Pro 6, XML-formatted text can be imported into databases, XML documents, HTML files, and text files through the use of XSL stylesheets. XML can also be used to publish web databases with FileMaker Pro. Examples and exercises throughout the book provide hands-on experience on a variety of topics including Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XPath function similarities, and importing and exporting XML.

Learn about the basics of XML, including the advantages of using XML and how to create XML documents. Find out how to import and export XML using FileMaker Pro 6. Understand how Document Type Definitions (DTDs) relate to XML. Learn how FileMaker Pro web publishes XML and how to design your databases for optimum web publishing. Explore stylesheet transformation of XML with XSL and how browsers handle XSL. The companion files can be downloaded from www.wordware.com/fmxml and www.moonbow.com/xml. These files contain the examples discussed in the book, as well as demo plug-ins from Troi Automatisering, information on networking FileMaker Pro solutions, and examples provided by third parties.

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IT professionals are looking for a book that gives them more than just theory and generic security information. With the best-selling Hacking Exposed series already established as the leader in the marketplace, Hacking Exposed Wireless provides real, tactical wireless security implementation coverage by showing how to execute the attacks and implement the defenses. This is an invaluable resource for any IT professional who works with wireless technology.

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Secure Your Wireless Networks the Hacking Exposed Way

Defend against the latest pervasive and devastating wireless attacks using the tactical security information contained in this comprehensive volume. Hacking Exposed Wireless reveals how hackers zero in on susceptible networks and peripherals, gain access, and execute debilitating attacks. Find out how to plug security holes in Wi-Fi/802.11 and Bluetooth systems and devices. You’ll also learn how to launch wireless exploits from Metasploit, employ bulletproof authentication and encryption, and sidestep insecure wireless hotspots. The book includes vital details on new, previously unpublished attacks alongside real-world countermeasures. Download Now »

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The tenth anniversary edition of the world’s bestselling computer security book!

The original Hacking Exposed authors rejoin forces on this new edition to offer completely up-to-date coverage of today’s most devastating hacks and how to prevent them. Using their proven methodology, the authors reveal how to locate and patch system vulnerabilities. The book includes new coverage of ISO images, wireless and RFID attacks, Web 2.0 vulnerabilities, anonymous hacking tools, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2008, mobile devices, and more.

Hacking Exposed 6 applies the authors’ internationally renowned computer security methodologies, technical rigor, and “from-the-trenches” experience to make computer technology usage and deployments safer and more secure for businesses and consumers.

“Right now you hold in your hand one of the most successful security books ever written. Rather than being a sideline participant, leverage the valuable insights Hacking Exposed 6 provides to help yourself, your company, and your country fight cyber-crime.” –From the Foreword by Dave DeWalt, President and CEO, McAfee, Inc.

“A cross between a spy novel and a tech manual.” –Mark A. Kellner, Washington Times Download Now »