Use .NET Framework to accomplish real-world, professional tasks. .NET Framework Professional Projects is your key to unlocking the power of .NET Framework. Each project focuses on a specific concept and is based on a real-world situation. Enhance your skills as you work through eleven projects including creating XML schemas, creating a Web service and application, implementing security models in .NET Framework, and measuring system performance. When you are finished, you will have the skills necessary to modify projects to fit your professional needs.

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This book provides an accessible approach to the study of Windows® programming with Visual C++®.
It is intended to be an introduction to Visual C++® for technical people including practicing engineers, engineering students, and others who would like to understand Windows® programming and use its inherent graphic capabilities. While the book is aimed at a technical audience, the mathematical content is modest and it should be readable by most people interested in C++ programming. Readers of this book will be introduced to Windows® programming in perhaps the most natural way, by using the Visual C++® object-oriented environment and the tools of the Microsoft® Foundation Classes (MFC).

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to install and configure Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and its various services for any size network. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Windows Server® 2008 from the ground up. Joe Habraken is a computer technology professional and best-selling author with more than fifteen years of experience in the information technology field. He has written more than twenty computer and information technology publications including Home Wireless Networking in a Snap, Skinning Windows XP, and Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (with Matt Hayden). Joe, a Microsoft Certified Professional and Cisco Certified Network Associate, currently serves as an associate professor at the University of New England in Biddeford, ME, where he teaches a variety of new media and information technology-related courses.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common tasks.

Q&As at the end of each hour help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Joe Habraken is a computer technology professional and best-selling author with more than fifteen years of experience in the information technology field. He has written more than twenty computer and information technology publications including Home Wireless Networking in a Snap, Skinning Windows XP, and Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (with Matt Hayden). Joe, a Microsoft Certified Professional and Cisco Certified Network Associate, currently serves as an associate professor at the University of New England in Biddeford, ME, where he teaches a variety of new media and information technology-related courses.

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Now updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this guide delivers in-depth technical information on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 greatly improves on IPv4, the current protocol, by vastly increasing the number of available addresses and by adding enhancements for security, multimedia traffic management, routing, and network configuration. Written by a popular author and networking expert, this reference details the protocol, from its features and benefits to its packet structure and protocol processes. It also describes how to migrate to IPv6-based internetworking, with tips about coexistence with IPv4-based systems, DHCP, DNS, and routing infrastructure. It discusses how IPv6 is supported by the Windows Server 2008 family of operating systems and Windows Vista. Includes companion CD with fully searchable eBook and other references.

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Get the official resource for deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 networking and Network Access Protection (NAP) technologies, direct from the experts who know the technologies best. This definitive resource from award-winning Microsoft® networking author Joseph Davies and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) author Tony Northrup also offers expert insights direct from the Windows Server Networking team at Microsoft. You get detailed information about all major networking and network security services, including the all-new Network Access Protection (NAP), authentication infrastructure, IPv4 and IPv6, remote access, virtual private networks, IP security, quality of service, scalable networking, wireless infrastructure and security, DNS, DHCP, Windows® Firewall, and more. You also get a companion DVD with a fully searchable eBook version of the book, plus eBook samples from Understanding IPv6 2nd Edition, Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services, and TCP/IP Fundamentals. This official Microsoft resource delivers what every Windows administrator needs to master Windows Server 2008 networking.

Key Book Benefits

Delivers in-depth technical guidance for administering, Windows Server 2008 networking and NAP technologies

Features definitive product information from the experts, with additional insights from the Windows Server team at Microsoft and field consultants

Provides the detailed information that every Windows administrator needs about NAP, IPv4 and IPv6, remote access, virtual private networks, IP security, DNS, DHCP, Windows Firewall, and more

Includes a DVD with a fully searchable eBook of all seven volumes, plus bonus eBook samples from three additional networking books

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Most data compression methods that are based on variable-length codes employ the Huffman or Golomb codes. However, there are a large number of less-known codes that have useful properties - such as those containing certain bit patterns, or those that are robust - and these can be useful. This book brings this large set of codes to the attention of workers in the field and to students of computer science.
David Salomons clear style of writing and presentation, which has been familiar to readers for many years now, allows easy access to this topic. This comprehensive text offers readers a detailed, reader-friendly description of the variable length codes used in the field of data compression. Readers are only required to have a general familiarity with computer methods and essentially an understanding of the representation of data in bits and files.

Topics and Features:
Discusses codes in-depth, not the compression algorithms, which are readily available in many books
Includes detailed illustrations, providing readers with a deeper and broader understanding of the topic
Provides a supplementary author-maintained website, with errata and auxiliary material www.davidsalomon.name/VLCadvertis/VLC.html
Easily understood and used by computer science majors requiring only a minimum of mathematics
Can easily be used as a main or auxiliary textbook for courses on algebraic codes or data compression and protection
An ideal companion volume to David Salomons fourth edition of Data Compression: The Complete Reference

Computer scientists, electrical engineers and students majoring in computer science or electrical engineering will find this volume a valuable resource, as will those readers in various physical sciences and mathematics.
David Salomon is a professor emeritus of Computer Science at California State University, Northridge. He has authored numerous articles and books, including Coding for Data and Computer Communications, Guide to Data Compression Methods, Data Privacy and Security, Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, Foundations of Computer Security, and Transformations and Projections in Computer Graphics.

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Get expert guidance on how to:
•Plan and implement high-volume and low-volume deployment projects
•Configure Group Policy to manage clients, user profiles, search features, and network resources
•Administer disks, file systems, folders, printers, and other devices
•Implement file and media sharing in workgroup and domain environments
•Configure wireless networking protocols, TCP/IP, and VPN connections
•Manage software updates, User Account Control, Windows Firewall, and Ipsec protection
•Monitor event logs and system performance
•Troubleshoot hardware, drivers, network connectivity, and stop messages

DVD features:
•140+ scripts for automating administration and deployment.
•Network troubleshooting tools.
•Debugging tools for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows.
•Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007—plus supporting tools.
•Technical white papers on Windows Vista administration.
•Sample chapters from Microsoft Security Resource Kit, Second Edition and Microsoft VBScript Step by Step.
•Fully searchable eBook.

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