Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows

Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows
By Scott Mueller, Brian Knittel
Publisher: Que
Pub Date: November 30, 2005
ISBN: 0-7897-3403-6
Pages: 720

 Product Description
Fans of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, your call has been answered. Scott Mueller, author of the best-selling Upgrading and Repairing PCs, is now bringing you an equally in-depth guide to Windows troubleshooting. Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows explains how Windows works and how to fix it when things go wrong. This comprehensive resource includes information on:
* Installation
* Managing security
* Optimizing performance
* Recovering data
* Configuring settings and the registry
* Protecting Windows from viruses and spyware
Scott also includes references to helpful tools and scripting commands for maximum system controls. A DVD is included that provides you with additional resources and unique how-to video that brings Scott right to you. Find out how to make Windows work with you and not against you with Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows.
About the Author
Scott Mueller is the most authoritative hardware voice in the industry. In addition to teaching hardware repair to more than 10,000 computer professionals and enthusiasts, he has sold 2 million + copies of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, making him a world-renowned hardware author and his book a classic. Scott has taught hardware repair to a host of agencies in the U.S. and foreign governments and corporations in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. The most recent edition of Upgrading and Repairing PCs (16th) published in September 2004, and Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, 2nd Edition publishes in October 2005.
Brian Knittel has been a software developer for nearly 30 years, with over 15 years of real-world experience with MS-DOS, Windows, and computer networking in the business world. Previously, he wrote Windows XP Under the Hood: Hardcore Scripting and Command Line Power, and is co-author of several other Que books including Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows editions covering XP Home, XP Professional and Windows 2000 Professional.




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The Healthy PC: Preventive Care and Home Remedies for Your Computer

The Healthy PC: Preventive Care and Home Remedies for Your Computer


The Healthy PC:
Preventive Care and Home Remedies for Your Computer
2003 - 257 Pages - PDF - 3.88 MB

Learn routine maintenance as well as desktop basics, hard drive care and defragmentation, and plenty more to make your PC more efficient and keep it running smoothly. Learn software management, tame the Internet, secure your machine, deal with downloads, and much more.



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Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking is a complete beginner’s guide to creating, configuring, administering, and using a small network using Windows Vista computers. Inside you’ll find comprehensive coverage of networking hardware, including Ethernet (wired) hardware (from NICs to cables to switches to routers) and wireless Hardware–from wireless NICs to access points to range extenders.

We include handy “buyer’s guides” that tell you how to make smart choices when purchasing network hardware. With hardware in hand, we then show you how to roll up your shirtsleeves and put everything together, including configuring a router, laying cable, and connecting the devices. Next, we then show you how to wrangle with Windows Vista’s networking features. These techniques include using the Network and Sharing Center, managing wired and wireless connections, accessing shared network resources, sharing local resources on the network, and working with network files offline. And if you are a music and video aficionado, we’ve got you covered with a special chapter that shows you just how to set up a networked Vista PC as your digital media hub!

No networking book would be complete without extensive coverage of security issues that affect anyone connected to the Internet. We show you how to secure each computer, secure your global networking settings, and batten down your wireless connections. The last part of the book includes intermediate networking tasks such as

making remote connections, monitoring the network, troubleshooting network problems, and setting up Vista’s built-in web server and FTP server.

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Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook

Learn the essentials for developing mobile applications for any device. Focusing on proven techniques and practices, this guide addresses the real-world needs of experienced Microsoft Windows mobile developers. Users are growing increasingly dependent on mobile devices, and with innovations that make it easy to manage data synchronization, this proliferation will continue. Developers need to respond to this evolution with more than simple adaptations of the user interface–they need to implement mobile solutions for most of their applications. From expert authors with years of real-world experience, this book addresses this evolution, covering key mobile-development topics, including design, debugging, deployment, performance optimization, security, and globalization.

It also covers mobile applications that use Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition, and Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, running on devices such as Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile Smartphones. In addition, it includes extensive code samples in Microsoft Visual C#.

This book is a practical guide to developing applications for the .NET Compact Framework running on Microsoft Windows CE- and Windows Mobile-powered mobile devices. This is one of the first books on the market that directly addresses version 2.0 of the .NET Compact Framework, including the differences between version 1.0 and version 2. This is especially timely because at the time of this writing retail Windows Mobile devices containing version 2.0 in ROM are just beginning to show up on shelves in large volumes.

The authors not only explain what the new features in version 2 are, but they provide straightforward explanations of why the new features are useful, and how they can be effectively used to improve your own mobile applications. The book also takes a first look at the forthcoming version 3.5 of the .NET Compact Framework as well, providing an interesting preview of additional features and improvements that will arrive in Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas"-features such as compression, unit testing support, and compact versions of Language Integrated Query(LINQ) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Although this book would be useful to anyone interested in writing applications for smart devices, it will be most useful for the experienced desktop .NET developer who is interested in branching out to devices for the first time. The advice contained in this volume doesn't get bogged down in theory or esoterica. Instead, it provides practical guidelines and knowledge for writing efficient and functional mobile software. It is full of useful code samples and examples that you can use to turbocharge your own device development. It doesn't assume that devices exist in a vacuum, understanding instead that your application may be part of an overall architecture involving desktop computers, servers, and so forth. And it addresses not just writing your application and getting it to function correctly, but also performance and deployment of your applications-difficult areas that may surprise developers new to the mobile environment.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - .NET Compact Framework-a Platform on the Move
Chapter 02 - Building a Microsoft Windows Forms GUI
Chapter 03 - Using SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and Other Data Stores
Chapter 04 - Catching Errors, Testing, and Debugging
Chapter 05 - Understanding and Optimizing .NET Compact Framework Performance
Chapter 06 - Completing the Application-Packaging and Deployment
Chapter 07 - Exchanging Data with Backend Servers
Chapter 08 - Networking
Chapter 09 - Getting Connected
Chapter 10 - Security Programming for Mobile Applications
Chapter 11 - Threading
Chapter 12 - Graphics Programming
Chapter 13 - Direct3D Mobile
Chapter 14 - Interoperating with the Platform
Chapter 15 - Building Custom Controls
Chapter 16 - Internationalization
Chapter 17 - Developing with Windows Mobile

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Microsoft Expression Blend

Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed is about learning a new tool for designer, but also learning a new mindset for developer Expression Blend enables the delivery of rich interactive applications, for the web as well as the desktop, allowing you to take graphical assets and blend them with functional .NET code through the power of XAML and the WPF platform. Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed also features a C# Primer, introducing designers to the .NET Framework. .NET allows the reader to extend the functionality of many of the WPF elements used in Expression Blend. The most important concept for the reader to grasp is that Blend and Visual Studio together are about facilitating the kind of user experience everyone wants from the applications they use. This book will give you the skill set whether you are a designer or developer; from there, you just need to use a little imagination.

Detailed information on how to:
- Design and develop WPF applications
- Use Blend’s animation workflows
- Design and implement WPF template types
- Create and manage Resource Dictionaries
- Master WPF Style templates
- Handle control events
- Understand advanced control properties in XAML/Blend/C#
- Create customized controls through inheritance
- Understand the fundamentals of XAML-based design and development
- Implement effective XML, CLR Data binding, and XAML template binding
- Extend XAML functionality with C# code

- Implement video and audio in your applications
- Use Blend as part of your designer/developer workflow

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