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.NET Web Services Solutions offers just what its title states: practical solutions to the real challenges you face as you use .NET to create applications that communicate with web services and--more to the point--to build and deploy web services of your own. By the time you're done, you'll understand how the web services platform works, because chapter by chapter you get all the hands-on instruction, detailed examples, and inside advice you need to make your project succeed.For example, you'll learn to connect to a database using ADO.NET operations, carry out the exchange of binary files, and extend the reach of your web service so that it touches e-mail, fax machines, mobile devices, and remote PCs. You'll master techniques for making your web service available to other programs--but you'll also discover ways to control its availability through authentication and encryption.Kris Jamsa's expert coverage goes above and beyond, providing advanced optimization tips, including instructions for implementing asynchronous operations. He also shows you a neat trick for calling a web service from within an HTML page using JavaScript. Want an even neater trick? Check out the section on making money with your web service, where you'll find a billing model that will work for you. The final chapter brings it all together, walking you through a cohesive, highly functional example of an employment web service.

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Containing more than three hundred Visual Basic.NET tips, techniques, tricks, and best practices, a guide for advanced Visual Basic programmers and developers explains how to use Visual Basic.NET within the .NET Framework, how to mrigrate programs from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic.NET, and such concepts as ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, XML and Soap, and more. Original. (Advanced) (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the Palm OS environment for programmers moving into the Palm arena. The CD contains all code from the book so developers can modify the applications to fit their needs. The book focuses on C-based applications and on the GCC compiler, it also teaches users how to create their own Palm-based Web site and how to build a newsfeed using Web clippings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Now in it's 4th edition by best selling author Kris Jamsa, Rescued by Upgrading Your PC is a must-have resource for anyone who owns a personal computer or notebook PC. Step-by-step instructions make PC hardware and software upgrading and maintenance easy! Filled with full color illustrations, this edition helps readers take control of their own hardware and software installations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide for professional programmers explores the fundamental features of Visual Basic's graphical programming environment and paint metaphor for the development of user interfaces. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 1001 Visual Basic Programmer's Tips, 2E takes programmers from "square one" with Visual Basic 6. Building upon the basics, this new edition features expanded coverage of Visual Basic Script, including a focus on Active Server Pages for programmers to create web pages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: MP3 is sound and video through your PC. MP3 files have CD sound quality and are small enough to be easily transferred across the Internet. Kris Jamsa’s Starting with MP3 will teach you how to harness the multimedia power of the Web to do fascinating, fun, and useful things...read more