The .NET Framework provides a runtime environment called the Common Language Runtime, which manages the execution of code and provides services that make the development of robust software easier. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) provides a solid foundation for developers to build various types of applications. Whether a developer is writing an ASP.NET application, a Windows Forms application, a Web Service, a mobile code application, a distributed application, or an application that combines several of these application models, the CLR provides huge benefits such as simplified development and the ability to integrate code written in various languages. This book is a high-end comprehensive reference to the capability of the CLR. The samples in the book have been written so that they not only illustrate a principle but give the reader a springboard to quickly translate the sample to practical, real-world applications. After reading this book, readers will be able to significantly increase their productivity by comfortably using the power and expressiveness of the Common Language Runtime in their applications. This book will take the reader beyond the syntax of C# to using and understanding the CLR to build secure, maintainable, and high performance applications.

.NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET is the definitive tutorial and reference for the .NET Compact Framework (CF). It shows you how to transfer your skills and your code to the Pocket PC 2003 and other mobile and embedded smart devices. Authors Paul Yao and David Durant draw upon their years of research and experience with members of the Microsoft .NET CF team to show you exactly how the best CF programming gets done in Visual Basic .NET. This is the only book a programmer needs to master the art of CF coding. Throughout the book, sample code and examples illustrate best practices and programming techniques. In addition, the companion Web site includes downloadable code for all these examples, along with a set of development tools to help you with your CF development projects.

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 services. Written for intermediate to advanced VB, C/C++, Java, and Delphi developers, .NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition is also useful to system architects and leaders who are assessing tools for future projects.

This solutions-oriented book gives you the background you need to understand the concept of web services and quickly moves into showing you how to publish and consume web services.

Если вы решили попробовать свои силы в загадочной системе Linux - то эта книга для вас. Автор - эксперт по Linux - постарался сделать так, чтобы вы освоили Linux, не останавливаясь на мелочах. Изложение ведется на основе небольших, тщательно подобранных примеров, сопровождающих все обсуждаемые темы - все очень быстро, наглядно и эффективно. Вы хотите быстро найти ответы на свои вопросы или шаблонные решения своих задач? Воспользуйтесь уникальным форматом книги, чтобы мгновенно получить ответ! Выбор дистрибутива Linux (Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE), инсталляция системы, работа с командной строкой и рабочими столами KDE, GNOME, подготовка текстов и электронных таблиц в OpenOffice, работа в Web и со средствами мультимедиа - вот далеко не полный список тем, которые вы сможете быстро и легко освоить, прочитав эту книгу.

Beginning with the wars of ancient Persia and Greece, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam searches for the theoretical underpinnings of the "clash of civilizations" that has determined so much of our political and cultural discourse. He revisits the Crusades, colonialism, the Enlightenment, and our contemporary war on terror, and he engages with both eastern and western thinkers, such as Adorno, Derrida, Farabi, Foucault, Hegel, Khayyam, Marcuse, Marx, Said, Ibn Sina, and Weber. Adib-Moghaddam's investigation explains the conceptual genesis of the clash of civilizations and the influence of western and Islamic representations of the other. He highlights the discontinuities between Islamism and the canon of Islamic philosophy, which distinguishes between Avicennian and Qutbian discourses of Islam, and he reveals how violence became inscribed in western ideas, especially during the Enlightenment. Expanding critical theory to include Islamic philosophy and poetry, this metahistory refuses to treat Muslims and Europeans, Americans and Arabs, and the Orient and the Occident as separate entities.

Upgrade to a digital lifestyle! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Windows XP, Second Edition is not just about using Windows, but also about how to live in a digital world where you can share pictures over the Internet, download music from websites, communicate with long-distance family and friends on the computer, and more. Step-by-step instructions will show you how to accomplish key tasks and take precautions to protect your computer from viruses and spyware.

FLA/FAIFE places great importance on its biennial World Report. This carefully researched survey provides the information professions with a regular insight into the state of intellectual freedom worldwide as it relates to libraries. It seems to be the nature of the sector that few out and out causes celebres emerge (although a few could be named). The world of journalism is a constant ferment of dangerous and threatening activity, and book publishing produces difficult cases all the time. Internet problems feature prominently in the press and on the Internet itself. Yet it might be possible to assume that libraries exist in an intellectual freedom safe haven. Unfortunately this is not the case. Libraries also share in the threats to privacy and the restrictions on access that trouble the world of knowledge and communication generally. Possibly because the threats creep up on libraries and are often experienced at second hand (for instance, through the suppression of a book or the blocking of a website), they are easier to ignore. The World Report is intended to open our eyes, alert us to dangers and enable us to fight emerging threats or support colleagues in other parts of the world.

This unique book offers solutions for all kinds of Acrobat users as it covers topics from implementing an effective PDF workflow to getting files ready for print to creating catalogs, interactive forms, ebooks, multimedia presentations, and web pages.

This book can be presented in two different ways. Firstly, it introduces a particular methodology to build adaptive Web sites and secondly, it presents the main concepts behind Web mining and then applying them to adaptive Web sites. In this case, Adaptive Web Sites is the case study to exemplify the tools introduced in the text. The authors start by introducing the Web and motivating the need for adaptive Web sites. The second chapter introduces the main concepts behind a Web site: its operation, its associated data and structure, user sessions, etc. Chapter three explains the Web mining process and the tools to analyze Web data, mainly focused in machine learning. The fourth chapter looks at how to store and manage data. Chapter five looks at the three main and different mining tasks: content, links and usage. The following chapter covers Web personalization; a crucial topic if we want to adapt our site to specific groups of people. Chapter seven shows how to use information extraction techniques to find user behavior patterns. The subsequent chapter explains how to acquire and maintain knowledge extracted from the previous phase. Finally, chapter nine contains the case study where all the previous concepts are applied to present a framework to build adaptive Web sites. In other words, the authors have taken care of writing a self-contained book for people that want to learn and apply personalization and adaptation in Web sites. This is commendable considering the large and increasing bibliography in these and related topics. The writing is easy to follow and although the coverage is not exhaustive, the main concepts and topics are all covered.

Эта книга поможет вам изучить программу Adobe Illustrator CS практически с нуля. Вы познакомитесь с основными принципами использования программы, изучите назначение и освоите методы применения различных ее инструментов. Данная книга предназначена для индивидуального обучения и рассчитана на пользователей всех категорий с любым уровнем компьютерных знаний. Ее вполне можно использовать в качестве настольного справочника, который поможет вам справиться со сложной или незнакомой ситуацией. Благодаря лаконичному и одновременно исчерпывающему описанию существующих в Adobe Illustrator CS инструментальных средств и методов работы с ними, вы найдете здесь ответы на любые практические вопросы. Выполнение всех приведенных в книге пошаговых инструкций и описанных приемов работы непосредственно при чтении книги быстро научит вас создавать собственные рисунки и композиции, а также готовить их к печати или публикации в Web.

С помощью Adobe Photoshop 5.5 вы сможете создать яркий запоминающийся образ и с одинаковой легкостью адаптировать дизайн к помещению его на сайт или к печати. Вместо адской смеси различных программ, необходимых для создания комплексного веб-дизайна, вы теперь можете обратиться к одному первоклассному продукту. Полиграфист, профессионально работающий с допечатными процессами, Веб-мастер или Веб-креатор - все найдут в Photoshop 5.5 набор инструментов для создания лучшего решения в своей области. Adobe Photoshop 5.5 предлагает серию новых возможностей для веб-оптимизации файлов, позволяющую создавать высококачественную веб-графику с минимальными размерами файлов: вы можете сравнить несколько версий файла с различными установками степени сжатия, цветовых настроек и установок браузера в новом окне LiveView. С помощью этого инструмента вы сможете точно балансировать между качеством графики и ее размером. (См. "Оптимизация графики для Веб" www.illustrator.ru/articles/ software/Graphics_to_Web.pdf) Photoshop предлагает новую опцию GIF-формата: сжатие с потерей информации, позволяющее сократить размер файлов на 260-50% при минимальных потерях в качестве. Пакет Adobe Photoshop 5.5 включает в себя компонент ImageReady 2.0 для решения "продвинутых" веб-задач, таких как резка изображений на составные части, создание ролловеров, динамическая анимация и image maps. Этот компонент настолько интегрирован с Photoshop, что вы без труда будете работать с ними обоими. Более того, в одной программе вы сможете откатить операции, сделанные в другой, сохраняя слои и эффекты файла. Кроме этого, Photoshop включил в себя несколько креативных функций, рекомендованных пользователями. Теперь вы можете работать с новым инструментом выделения, более удобным в использовании и более точным в определении границ выделяемой области. Новая Art History Brush позволяет раскрашивать изображение мазками с цветом из выбранного источника из палитры History или Snapshot. Появились новые возможности у функции contact sheet, благодаря которым вы можете экспортировать одну картинку в разных размерах в виде набора. Вы также можете разместить на листе несколько картинок или организовать их в виде веб-галереи. Вместе все эти нововведения делают функциональность Adobe Photoshop 5.5 еще более совершенной. В этом документе рассмотрены новые мощные инструменты для работы с Веб-графикой, а также новые креативные возможности.

Photoshop can be an intimidating and time-consuming program to learn. Wouldn't you rather spend your time learning by doing rather than reading? Adobe Photoshop CS 2 On Demand features step-by-step instructions with accompanying visuals so that you spend more time learning and less time reading. The in-depth, wide-ranging coverage will enable you to get the most out of Photoshop CS 2 and included tool, such as: File browser Brush special effects Photo retouching Enhanced web output features Healing brushStudying for the Adobe Certified Exam for Photoshop? This tutorial also includes exam objectives throughout its pages. You will become a master of Photoshop CS 2 with the help of Adobe Photoshop CS 2 On Demand.

GoLive CS2 is more than just a simple Web authoring tool: As part of Adobe's updated Creative Suite 2, it's a key component of an overall Web workflow that lets you work seamlessly among all of your graphics applications to create spectacular Web sites. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing by focusing on just the GoLive features they're mostly like to use and showcasing each in stand-alone tipscomplete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn just what you need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll be importing layered Photoshop files into GoLive, creating PDF files from within the GoLive environment, and using the visual layout grid and Cascading Style Sheets to turn out fluid, beautiful Web pages. Also covered are all of GoLive CS2's new features: enhanced live rendering, mobile CSS support, Visual CVG-Tiny authoring and more.