.NET & Windows Programming

Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference
By Lee Holmes
May 2008
$12.99 USD

This portable reference to Windows PowerShell summarizes both the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the major tasks that make PowerShell so successful. Written by… Read more.

Programming Visual Basic 2008
By Tim Patrick
May 2008
$49.99 USD

Written in a lively and engaging style by a developer who's grown up with Visual Basic, this hands-on guide addresses the core topics of the new VB, from basic to… Read more.

Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
By Christian Wenz
April 2008
$34.99 USD

Design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft's hot new runtime application -- without waiting for the official release. With this unique… Read more.

ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook , Second Edition
By Bill Hamilton
March 2008
$54.99 USD

The new edition of this Cookbook gives you more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008… Read more.

LINQ Pocket Reference
By Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
February 2008
$14.99 USD

Ready to take advantage of LINQ with C# 3.0? This guide has the detail you need to grasp Microsoft's new querying technology, and concise explanations to help you learn it… Read more.

C# 3.0 Pocket Reference , Second Edition
By Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
February 2008
$14.99 USD

For busy programmers who want a succinct and yet readable guide to C# 3.0 and LINQ, C# 3.0 Pocket Reference tells you exactly what you need to know, without long… Read more.

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
By Omar Al Zabir
December 2007
$44.99 USD

If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with this framework. You learn how to develop rock-solid… Read more.

C# 3.0 Cookbook , Third Edition
By Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
December 2007
$54.99 USD

Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers… Read more.

Head First C#
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
November 2007
$49.99 USD

Head First C# is a complete learning experience for object-oriented programming, C#, and the Visual Studio IDE. Built for your brain, this book covers Visual C# 2008, Visual Studio 2008,… Read more.

Big Book of Windows Hacks
By Preston Gralla
October 2007
$34.99 USD

Bigger, better and broader in scope, the Big Book of Windows Hacks gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system, including… Read more.

Introducing Silverlight 1.1
By Todd Anglin
October 2007
$9.99 USD

In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology. First we'll take a broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and… Read more.

Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX
By Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, Brian MacDonald
September 2007
$44.99 USD

This book teaches web developers how to quickly build engaging and interactive web sites and applications of professional quality using Microsoft's latest web development tools. You'll not only learn to… Read more.

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell , Third Edition
By Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
September 2007
$49.99 USD

A concise yet thorough reference to C# 3.0 programming as implemented in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0 in a Nutshell gets right to the point, covering the essentials of… Read more.

Programming ASP.NET AJAX
By Christian Wenz
September 2007
$39.99 USD

Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the… Read more.

AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide
By Andy Flesner
September 2007
$7.99 USD

AutoIt is becoming increasingly popular in the system administration field as a tool for automating administrative tasks. Although this is one of its more popular uses, you can use AutoIt to automate anything in a… Read more.

Programming WPF , Second Edition
By Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
$49.99 USD

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of the new rich user interface capabilities of the .NET 3.0 Framework, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation.… Read more.

Learning WCF
By Michele Leroux Bustamante
May 2007
$44.99 USD

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise… Read more.

Rails on Windows
By Curt Hibbs, Brian Hogan
May 2007
$9.99 USD

It's no secret that the entire Ruby on Rails core team uses OS X as their preferred development environment. Because of this, it is very easy to find authoritative information on the web about using… Read more.

Getting Started with Silverlight
By Shawn Wildermuth
April 2007
$9.99 USD

Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-browser plug-in for delivering richer web experiences to end-users, including video and animations. Silverlight is generating buzz not only inside the traditional Microsoft developer community, but… Read more.

Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide
By William R. Stanek
February 2007
$49.99 USD

Whether you're a beginner, power user, or seasoned professional, this complete guide has everything you need to customize the operating system, master your digital media, manage your data, and maintain… Read more.

Programming WCF Services
By Juval Löwy
February 2007
$44.99 USD

Written by Microsoft software legend Juval Lowy, Programming WCF Services is the authoritative introduction to Microsoft's new, and some say revolutionary, unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows.… Read more.

Programming .NET 3.5 Rough Cuts Version
By Alex Horovitz, Jesse Liberty
Rough Cuts Release: February 2007
Print Book Release: July 2008
$49.99 USD

Bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns… Read more.

Windows Developer Power Tools
By James Avery, Jim Holmes
December 2006
$59.99 USD

This book offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 free and open source programming tools for those of you who want to extend your development environment, write higher quality… Read more.

What's New in Windows Vista?
By Brian Culp
December 2006
$7.99 USD

Get ready for a quick blast through this significant change to Windows! This guide will give you a quick look at many of the most significant new features in Vista,… Read more.

MCSA on Windows Server 2003 Core Exams in a Nutshell
By William R. Stanek, Pawan K. Bhardwaj
November 2006
$29.99 USD

For Windows administrators preparing for Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) core exams 70-270, 70-290, and 70-291, this document not only provides the resources you need to succeed on the exams,… Read more.

Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB , Second Edition
By Cristian Darie, Zak Ruvalcaba
October 2006
$44.95 USD

Learn how to build impressive ASP.NET 2.0 web sites in both C# and VB from scratch. Using a practical step-by-step approach, the authors introduce the ASP.NET framework, teach you about… Read more.

LINQ: The Future of Data Access in C# 3.0
By Joe Hummel
October 2006
$9.99 USD

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is Microsoft's new technology for powerful, general purpose data access. In this Short Cut you'll learn about LINQ and the proposed C# 3.0 extensions that support… Read more.

ASP.NET 2.0 Black Book
By Belmaks Solutions Content Team, Dreamtech Software Development Team
October 2006
$49.99 USD

The ASP.Net 2.0 Black Book will help readers greatly harness the power of Microsoft's powerful and flexible ASP .Net 2.0 to develop and maintain Web-Based applications and solutions. The book… Read more.

Windows PowerShell Quick Reference
By Lee Holmes
September 2006
$12.99 USD

For years, support for scripting and command-line administration on the Windows platform has paled in comparison to the support offered by the Unix platform. Unix administrators enjoyed the immense power… Read more.

Programming Atlas
By Christian Wenz
September 2006
$34.99 USD

Programming Atlas is not just another "drag and drop" ASP.NET book, but one that teaches you the fundamental Ajax technologies that make Atlas work. You'll begin with a tour of… Read more.

Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
By Tim Patrick, John Clark Craig
September 2006
$49.99 USD

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET… Read more.

Getting Started with .NET 3.0
By Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz
September 2006
$9.99 USD

Learn how to create more dynamic user experiences and build secure web services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two of the foundational pillars of .NET… Read more.

VB 2005 Black Book
By Steve Holzner
June 2006
$49.99 USD

Visual Basic 2005 Black Book is one of the first comprehensive books that cover the new version of Visual Basic and the development features of Microsoft's .NET platform in depth.… Read more.

The Book of Visual Basic 2005
By Matthew MacDonald
April 2006
$39.95 USD

Book of Visual Basic 2005 is a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft's newest programming language, Visual Basic 2005, the next iteration of Visual Basic. A complete revision to the highly acclaimed… Read more.

Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
By Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
$54.99 USD

Programming Excel isn't about adding new features as much as it's about combining existing features to solve particular problems. With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), you can transform Excel into… Read more.

XAML in a Nutshell
By Lori A. MacVittie
March 2006
$29.99 USD

The Windows Vista operating system will support applications that employ graphics now used by computer games--clear, stunning, and active. The cornerstone for building these user interfaces is XAML, the XML-based… Read more.

Use ClickOnce to Deploy Windows Applications
By Wei-Meng Lee
March 2006
$7.99 USD

ClickOnce, a new technology in Visual Studio 2005, lets you quickly and easily deploy your Windows apps via web servers, file servers, or even CDs. This step-by-step guide to using… Read more.

Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell , Third Edition
By Tim Patrick, Steven Roman, Ph.D., Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
January 2006
$49.99 USD

Newly updated, this classic detailed reference to the Visual Basic programming language has been reorganized to cover all the ins and outs of Visual Basic 2005, including new features like… Read more.

Active Directory , Third Edition
By Robbie Allen, Joe Richards, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
$49.99 USD

Fully updated to cover Active Directory for Windows Server 2003 SP1 and R2, this third edition is full of important updates and corrections. Discover how to design, manage, and maintain… Read more.

ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook , Second Edition
By Michael A. Kittel, Geoffrey T. LeBlond
December 2005
$54.95 USD

Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling ASP.NET Cookbook has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft's popular… Read more.

Programming MapPoint in .NET
By Chandu Thota
December 2005
$49.95 USD

This comprehensive guide shows you how to use MapPoint's interactive mapping abilities to improve your company's bottom line. Learn how to build custom applications for the desktop, web, and mobile… Read more.

Programming ASP.NET , Third Edition
By Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz
October 2005
$49.95 USD

This updated bestseller has been completely refreshed to give you the inside story on ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. It features a comprehensive tutorial on Web Forms and detailed… Read more.

Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart
By Wei-Meng Lee
September 2005
$14.95 USD

Okay, VB6 developers--time's up. Microsoft no longer supports this version of Visual Basic, but VB 2005 offers several attractive reasons to upgrade. Our jumpstart guide lets you test-drive the beta… Read more.

Programming Visual Basic 2005
By Jesse Liberty
September 2005
$39.95 USD

This information-packed guide helps you understand Visual Basic 2005, the next-generation release of the popular Visual Basic programming language. This book aims to make you immediately productive in creating Windows… Read more.

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation
By Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
September 2005
$39.95 USD

Get up to speed on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). By page two, you'll have written your first WPF application, and by the end of Chapter 1, "Hello WPF," you'll have… Read more.

Programming .NET Components , Second Edition
By Juval Löwy
July 2005
$44.95 USD

Programming .NET Components, Second Edition is the consummate introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework--the technology of choice for building components on Windows platforms. From its many lessons, tips, and guidelines,… Read more.

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
By Wei-Meng Lee
June 2005
$29.95 USD

To bring you up to speed with ASP.NET 2.0, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on changes… Read more.

.NET Gotchas
By Venkat Subramaniam
May 2005
$39.95 USD

The ultimate guide for pain-free coding, .NET Gotchas from O'Reilly contains 75 common .NET programming pitfalls--and advice on how to avoid them. Now you can steer away from application performance… Read more.

Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook
By Matthew MacDonald
April 2005
$29.95 USD

To bring you up to speed with Visual Basic 2005, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on… Read more.

NUnit Pocket Reference
By Bill Hamilton
August 2004
$9.95 USD

The open source NUnit framework is an excellent way to test .NET code as it is written, saving hundreds of QA hours and headaches. Unfortunately, some of those hours saved… Read more.

Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook
By Jeff Webb
August 2004
$29.95 USD

Light on theory and long on practical application, this guide takes you directly to Excel 2003's new features using a series of hands-on projects. Learn to work with lists and… Read more.

Mono: A Developer's Notebook
By Edd Dumbill, Niel M. Bornstein
July 2004
$24.95 USD

This no-fluff, lab-style guide jumps right into Mono 1.0 as you work through nearly fifty mini-projects that introduce you to the most important and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release.… Read more.

Java vs. .NET Security
By Denis Piliptchouk
June 2004
$5.95 USD

A practical guide for comparison and contrast of security features offered by Enterprise Java and .NET platforms. Read more.

.NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide
By Wei-Meng Lee
May 2004
$9.95 USD

Looking to create applications for Pocket PC and Windows based Smartphones? The new .NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide will teach you what you need to know. This handy reference provides… Read more.

Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# and VB.NET
By Zak Ruvalcaba
April 2004
$44.95 USD

A tutorial style book for absolute beginners that draws on practical examples, straightforward explanations and ready-to-use code samples in both C# and VB.NET. This book will help you get a… Read more.

.NET & XML
By Niel M. Bornstein
November 2003
$39.95 USD

.NET & XML provides an in-depth, concentrated tutorial for intermediate to advanced-level developers. Additionally, it includes a complete reference to the XML-related namespaces within the .NET Framework. XML is an… Read more.

Programming .NET Windows Applications
By Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz
October 2003
$49.95 USD

With this tutorial, you will explore all aspects of using .NET Windows Forms class libraries and the associated programming tools in Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to build applications for… Read more.

ASP.NET in a Nutshell , Second Edition
By G. Andrew Duthie, Matthew MacDonald
August 2003
$44.95 USD

Updated for Visual Studio .NET 2003, the 2nd edition of this book includes fresh information on application and web service development, custom controls, data access, security, deployment, and error handling,… Read more.

.NET Framework Essentials , Third Edition
By Thuan L. Thai, Hoang Lam
August 2003
$39.99 USD

Fully updated for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is an objective, concise, no-nonsense overview of the Microsoft .NET Framework for developing web applications and… Read more.

Programming .NET Security
By Adam Freeman, Allen Jones
June 2003
$44.95 USD

With the spread of web-enabled desktop clients and web-server based applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. It's one topic, in fact, that .NET forces… Read more.

ADO.NET in a Nutshell
By Bill Hamilton, Matthew MacDonald
April 2003
$44.95 USD

ADO.NET in a Nutshell is the most complete and concise source of ADO.NET information available. Besides being a valuable reference, this book covers a variety of issues that programmers face… Read more.

.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell
By Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams
March 2003
$44.95 USD

.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell offers an accelerated introduction to this next-generation of rich user interface development. The book provides an all-inclusive guide for experienced programmers along with a… Read more.

Mastering Visual Studio .NET
By Ian Griffiths, Jon Flanders, Chris Sells
March 2003
$39.95 USD

Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides you, as an experienced programmer, with all the information needed to get the most out of the latest and greatest development tool from Microsoft®. Written… Read more.

Shared Source CLI Essentials
By David Stutz, Ted Neward, Geoff Shilling
March 2003
$34.95 USD

Shared Source CLI Essentials provides a road map for anyone wishing to navigate, understand, or alter the Microsoft® Shared Source CLI ("Rotor") code. Written by members of the core team… Read more.

Visual Basic .Net Core Language Little Black Book
By Steve Holzner
February 2003
$29.99 USD

Visual Basic.NET Core Language Little Black Book is an indispensable quick reference guide written by the Visual Basic master, Steven Holzner. This book is written to show programmers how to… Read more.

VB.NET Language Pocket Reference
By Steven Roman, Ph.D., Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax
December 2002
$9.95 USD

The VB.NET Language Pocket Reference offers the convenience of a quick reference in a convenient size. With VB.NET, you're working with a very different framework and language than VB6; you'll… Read more.

Learning Visual Basic .NET
By Jesse Liberty
October 2002
$34.95 USD

Learning Visual Basic .NET is a complete introduction to VB.NET and object-oriented programming. By using hundreds of examples, this book demonstrates how to develop various kinds of applications--including those that… Read more.

Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET
By J.P. Hamilton
October 2002
$34.95 USD

Visual Basic .NET is a language that facilitates object-oriented programming, but does not guarantee good code. That's where Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET comes in. It will show you… Read more.

Programming .NET Web Services
By Alex Ferrara, Matthew MacDonald
September 2002
$39.95 USD

This comprehensive tutorial teaches programmers the skills they need to develop XML web services hosted on the Microsoft .NET platform. Programming .NET Web Services also shows you how to consume… Read more.

Book of Visual Studio .NET
By Robert B. Dunaway
September 2002
$49.95 USD

The Book of Visual Studio .NET surveys each .NET server and related technologies, with a focus on Visual Studio 7 (VS7). Hands-on examples cover building forms, data retrieval, moving to… Read more.

VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell
By Budi Kurniawan, Ted Neward
June 2002
$44.95 USD

VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell, provides a concise and thorough reference to the types found in the core namespaces of the .NET Framework Class Library. A companion to VB.NET… Read more.

C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference
By Jose Mojica
April 2002
$9.95 USD

The C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference helps you easily make the switch from C# to Visual Basic .NET and vice versa. Differences between the two languages occur in three… Read more.

Visual Basic .Net Programming with Peter Aitken
By Peter Aitken
November 2001
$49.99 USD

Features a logical and understandable approach aimed at beginner to intermediate level programmers. Numerous real-world programming examples are included and special coverage of topics such as object-oriented programming, error-handling, graphics,… Read more.

COM & .NET Component Services
By Juval Löwy
September 2001
$44.99 USD

COM and .NET Component Services provides both traditional COM programmers and new .NET component developers with the information they need to begin developing applications that take full advantage of COM+… Read more.

ADO: ActiveX Data Objects
By Jason T. Roff
June 2001
$44.95 USD

This book is a one-stop guide to ADO, the universal data access solution from Microsoft that allows easy access to data from multiple formats and platforms. It includes chapters on… Read more.

Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic
By Stephen Teilhet
June 2001
$49.95 USD

Subclassing and the Windows hooking mechanism ("hooks") allow you to manipulate, modify, or even discard messages bound for other objects within the operating system, in the process changing the way… Read more.

Developing ASP Components , Second Edition
By Shelley Powers
March 2001
$49.95 USD

Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) continue to grow in popularity with web developers--especially as web applications replace web pages. However, the techniques and pitfalls of developing ASP components are not… Read more.

VBScript Pocket Reference
By Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, Ron Petrusha
February 2001
$9.95 USD

Based on the bestselling VBScript in a Nutshell, this small book details every VBScript language element--every statement, function, and object--both in VBScript itself and in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library.… Read more.

Designing Active Server Pages
By Scott Mitchell
September 2000
$29.95 USD

Designing Active Server Pages is written for those who have already mastered the basics of ASP application development and are ready to move to the next level--such as creating reusable… Read more.

ASP in a Nutshell , Second Edition
By A. Keyton Weissinger
July 2000
$29.95 USD

ASP in a Nutshell provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective Active Server Pages. It focuses on how features are used in a… Read more.

Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic
By Steven Roman, Ph.D.
November 1999
$39.95 USD

This book provides the missing documentation for VB programmers who want to harness the power of accessing the Win32 API within Visual Basic. It shows how to create powerful and… Read more.