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ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide

msmith — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:14:14 GMT

Magma Interactive, LLC is extremely excited to announce that our latest publication, ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide by Matthew Ellis has been released and is available from the Magma Interactive online store, as well Amazon.com. What this book offers that no other book does, is a comprehensive, straight to the point, detailed guide on developing applications with the ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Framework. You'd be amazed at what we've crammed into this pocket guide! ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide includes as few pages as possible, but no fewer than required! With all of the large books available, you'll find ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide to be an unbeatable guide both in content and price!

You'll discover the detailed intricacies of the server-side and client-side library, as well as advanced AJAX topics, such as, Windows Communication Foundation web services, resource localization, how to build extender controls, how to use and install the AJAX Control Toolkit, how to use the application services (authentication, role, and profile) and last, but hardly least, the book wraps up the discussion with an advanced mashup utilizing Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Geocode and Flickr to build a complete application named My Adventures.

For more information check out the Amazon.com product information page (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970372035), Magma Interactive product information page (http://magmainteractive.net/Store/product/2c1800b8-0be2-411e-9acd-a5cc9a7f50ac.aspx) and the table of contents (http://downloads.magmainteractive.net/0970372035/0970372035_TOC.pdf) (Adobe PDF file).

DevExpress Sweeps Nine asp.netPRO 2008 Reader’s Choice Awards

msmith — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:13:00 GMT

DevExpress technologies for Visual Studio help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity, and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time.

April 24, 2008 – For the second year in a row, DevExpress has swept all award categories in which it was nominated in the asp.netPRO Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards...a total of 15 ASP.NET awards in 2 short years. This year’s awards include:

ASP.NET Product of the Year – DXperience for ASP.NET
Best Component Set – DXperience for ASP.NET
Best Grid – ASPxGridView Suite
Best Add-in – CodeRush/Refactor
Best Charting – XtraCharts Suite
Best Printing/Reporting Tool – XtraReports Suite
Best Navigation Control - ASPxNavBar
Best Online Editor – ASPxHTML Editor
Best Scheduling/Calendar Tool – ASPxScheduler Suite

To learn more about DevExpress and our award winning ASP.NET product line or to download your free evaluation copy, visit us online at www.devexpress.com/2008awards.

About Developer Express

Developer Express has been Improving the Developer Experience™ since 1998 by engineering feature-complete components and developer tools for Windows® and the Web. For more information, contact Kevin White by email at kevinw@devexpress.com or by phone at (888) Go-DevEx.

Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide--New from O'Reilly

msmith — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:51:53 GMT

All You Need to Manage and Administer Windows Server 2008 -->

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-->Sebastopol, CA—Administering Microsoft's server-oriented Windows operating systems can sometimes seem like living on the edge of river that's prone to flooding. You ford the effluvia after each new flood, picking through the detritus for what's worth keeping, and leaving the useless bits lying in the muck. Then, when you have everything shipshape again, the next new release comes along. System administrators find themselves grappling with new concepts and just when they've mastered one set of changes, another comes along and suddenly they're scrambling once again to get up to speed.

One source of help for the beleaguered system administrator has always been the technical book market; each major operating system release has always been accompanied by books written to support it. But Jonathan Hassell, author Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, US $54.99), reflects on an interesting phenomenon: "Over the years, many of these books have become as complex, and have accumulated as much detritus, as the operating systems they explain," he says. Bookstores are filled with 1200-plus page volumes that lead you through how things worked in the last four versions of the operating system. And Hassell's belief is that you don't need all that information to get your work done effectively.

"It was in this spirit that I set out to write Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide, he says. "I have trimmed the content of this volume to include just enough background on a subject for you to understand how different features and systems work in this version of Windows. I want you to come away from reading sections with a firm understanding of what's happening under the hood of the system, but without the sense that you're taking a graduate course in OS theory." Most of all, he has written the book to be a practical guide that helps sys admins get their jobs done: "here's how it works; here's how to do it."

The book offers step-by-step procedures for using all of the major components of Windows Server 2008, along with discussions on complex concepts such as Active Directory replication, DFS namespaces and replication, network access protection, the Server Core edition, Windows PowerShell, server clustering, and more. Simply put, this is the most thorough reference available for Windows Server 2008, with complete guides to:

Installing the server in a variety of different environments
File services and the Windows permission structure
How the domain name system (DNS) works
Active Directory, including its logical and physical structure, hierarchical components, scalability, and replication
Group Policy's structure and operation
Managing security policy with predefined templates and customized policy plans
Architectural improvements, new features, and daily administration of IIS 7
Terminal Services from both the administrator's user's point of view
Networking architecture including DNS, DHCP, VPN, RADIUS server, IAS, and IPSec
Windows clustering services--applications, grouping machines, capacity and network planning, user account management
Windows PowerShell scripting and command-line technology

For a review copy or more information please email kathrynb@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.

Jonathan Hassell is a system administrator, IT consultant, and industry author residing in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Additional Resources:
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ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook--New from O'Reilly

msmith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:19:07 GMT

Data Access Made Easy with the Latest .NET Technologies -->

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-->Sebastopol, CA—Microsoft ADO.NET 3.5 is the latest data access technology from Microsoft. It's a collection of classes that are part of the .NET Framework, and is designed to provide consistent access to data in loosely coupled n-tier application architectures such as web services. "Data access is a key part of all business and other application development," says Bill Hamilton, author of ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook (O'Reilly, US $54.99).

"Since the first edition of this book, the .NET platform and SQL Server have become serious competitors to technologies such as J2EE and products like Oracle," Hamilton says. "Understanding and using ADO.NET correctly is critical to the construction of .NET Windows and Web forms applications that consume, use data, and update data. ADO.NET is simply the most robust and easiest to use data access technology."

Updated for Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, and SQL Server 2008, the book demonstrates how you can work with LINQ and other new .NET technologies to make data access easier and more efficient. ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook offers time-saving recipes for:

Connecting to data

Working with disconnected data objects

Querying, retrieving, searching, analyzing, adding, modifying, copying, and transferring data

Maintaining database integrity

Programmatically working with data in .NET Windows and Web Forms user interfaces

Working with XML data

Optimizing data access

Enumerating and maintaining database objects

SQL Server CLR integration

ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook is designed to solve a wide variety of real-world data access problems. Clearly organized, the book makes it easy to locate and use the recipes presented, offering more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for problems that developers will encounter every day with ADO.NET. The recipes not only address immediate needs, but also help readers learn the underlying concepts of this technology.

"This is my favorite type of technical book to write--one that presents real world problems and accompanying solutions--rather than the typical tutorials that often leave the reader without an ability to do that," says Hamilton. "As a consultant who designs large-scale, I believe that I understand the data access problem domain and its importance."

For a review copy or more information please email kathrynb@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.

Bill Hamilton is a technology and management consultant who specializes in assessing business objectives and company processes and designing and restructuring technology strategy and enterprise architecture.

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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide--New from O'Reilly

msmith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:14:17 GMT

Business Thinking and Strategies Behind Successful Web 2.0 Implementations -->

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-->Sebastopol, CA—Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? That question puzzles countless heads of companies who know they should have a strategy for Web 2.0 but don't quite understand what it's all about. Author Amy Shuen can add other questions to the mix:

How is Web 2.0 different from the Web 1.0 dot-com boom and bust?

How does Google offer "the world's knowledge" to searchers for free and still make more than 10 billion in revenue, grow 68%, and have a stock market valuation of close to $200 billion?

What could possibly make Flickr--a two-year-old photo-sharing startup--worth $40 million to Yahoo!, a video-sharing YouTube worth $1.6 billion to Google, or a social networking site called Facebook worth the equivalent of $15 billion to Microsoft?

Is Web 2.0 about corporate blogging, wikis and podcasting, or something else entirely?

Amy Shuen's new book Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide (O'Reilly, US $24.99) answers these questions, and explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Using real-life examples, Shuen demonstrates how various companies, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today's Web and shows how you can apply the same strategies to your own business.

"You're already an integral part of the Web 2.0 business economy," Shuen explains. "Every time you click on Google, Wikipedia, eBay, or Amazon, you are sparking 'network effects.' If you use a Flickr-enabled cell phone or tune in to iTunes podcasts or check Yahoo! Finance for stock quotes, you are creating monetizable value for businesses--even if you don't actually buy anything."

Rather than focus on the technology, the examples in Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned "word of mouth" becomes hypergrowth.

"I wrote the book to change the mindset and answer the questions that colleagues, CEOs, MBAs, technical managers, investors, and analysts--informally or in one of my exec ed programs or consulting projects--would ask me about the 'buzz and hype' surrounding Web 2.0 companies and projects," says Shuen, adding that her audience includes any of these people who want to thrive and survive in a hyper-networked Web 2.0 economy.

According to Tim O'Reilly, there is still a lot left to learn about Web 2.0. "The Web 2.0 revolution continues," he says in his foreword to the book, "and every day, entrepreneurs are finding new ways to apply the principles of Web 2.0. I expect more surprises and new success stories. But for now, this book is the best starting point for any company that wants to understand and apply Internet-era business strategy."

For a review copy or more information please email kathrynb@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.

Amy Shuen is an internationally recognized authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, frequent speaker at industry conferences and venture capital events, and an award-winning strategy researcher.

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Telerik Announces Milestone Q1 2008 Release of .NET Components and Reporting Tool

msmith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:49:42 GMT

Setting a higher standard in .NET toolset performance

NEWTON, MA, April 16, 2008 – Telerik, a leading vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, is excited to announce the landmark release of its Q1 2008 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and WinForms, and Telerik Reporting. The new release represents a final touch in Telerik’s goal to offer a comprehensive and mature toolset of next-generation web and desktop components.

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (formerly codenamed “Prometheus”) is an innovative set of components built entirely on top of ASP.NET AJAX, leveraging the power and flexibility of the new Microsoft framework. Now featuring over 20 controls for use in ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, RadControls is the most comprehensive toolset for building richer and more responsive web applications.

Major highlights of the suite are:

·         Unmatched performance as a result of innovative semantic rendering

·         Shared client-side scripts across all controls

·         Phenomenal client side capabilities

·         Familiar API based on ASP.NET AJAX

·         Wide cross-browser compatibility, XHTML and accessibility compliance

·         Interactive scheduler, industry-leading HTML editor, semantic navigation controls

·         Support for VS2008 and ASP.NET 3.5

·         Support for DNN and MOSS

With the new release, Telerik also continues its dedication to providing a visually aesthetic, yet superior in performance line for desktop components. RadControls for WinForms Q1 2008 suite includes great new controls (unique RadCarousel navigation control and a RadForm component) and applications, as well as performance improvements. Q1 2008 also features a completely redesigned and radically improved RadGridView control.

Q1 2008 is also a milestone in Telerik’s quest for an intuitive tool for report creation and styling. With the new release, Telerik Reporting becomes the first tool to introduce a full WYSIWYG, graph-paper-like design surface integrated in Visual Studio that displays the actual report layout as it will be printed on paper. The updated Telerik Reporting tool also features a new export format (RTF), as well as automatic report parameter UI for accepting run-time user supplied parameters.

Pricing and Availability
The price of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Reporting Subscription License is $1299 per developer seat and for every purchase until July 15, 2008 customers will also receive complimentary licenses for Telerik’s upcoming Silverlight and WPF controls. The license comes with a Gold Support Package (up to 24h response time), full C# source code, redistribution rights and free updates for the latest products for one year. All the tools work without license keys and can be freely deployed on an unlimited number of development, testing and production servers. A step-by-step self-paced tutorial and hundreds of code samples are provided to accelerate your learning.

About Telerik

Telerik is a leading vendor of development tools for Microsoft .NET. Developers from Fortune 2000 companies, many of the world’s leading educational and non-profit organizations, and thousands of consultants rely on Telerik products to build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. For additional information on Telerik, its products, pricing, and availability, visit http://www.telerik.com, or call 1 888 365 2779.

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Audio Editing with Adobe Audition, Second Edition--New from PC Publishing

msmith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:50:41 GMT

-->Sebastopol, CA—Following the successes of Audio Editing with Cool Edit and Audio Editing with Adobe Audition, this brand new title from PC Publishing covers Adobe Audition 2.0. Richard Riley, professional computer technician and long-time user of Adobe Audition, continues to follow the evolution of this classic program in his new book, Audio Editing with Adobe Audition, Second Edition (PC Publishing, $22.95).

Beginners and experienced users alike will find invaluable information on managing and developing waveforms, using non-native effects and processes, using loops and found sound, dealing with unexpected issues such as clicking and popping tracks or lost presets and replacing or editing video soundtracks.

Detailed information on audio standards is provided as a background for finishing and producing audio along with procedures for submitting audio for external mastering. There’s even a section on using Adobe Audition outside the studio and in theatres and live productions alongside essential information for users of Microsoft Vista.

Recently updated to cover version 2 of Adobe Audition, this book will show you how to:

Create your own audio soundtracks

Use loops and waveforms to create original compositions

Use Audition’s effects and editing tools

Create spot and foley effects

Produce your own layers, pads and jingles

Learn mastering and production tips

For a review copy or more information please email pcpublishingpr@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.

Richard Riley is an established author, musician, producer and professional computer technician and a long term user of Adobe Audition since its origins as a shareware wave editor.

Additional Resources:
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About PC Publishing
PC Publishing has been publishing books on music technology for over 10 years. Our authors are well known as authorities in their field and we have produced many top books on MIDI, Cubase VST, Emagic Logic and music technology.

PC Publishing's books are widely distributed by O'Reilly Media.

About O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

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Logic Pro 8 Tips and Tricks--New from PC Publishing

msmith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:37:56 GMT

-->Sebastopol, CA—Although Logic Pro 8 introduces many features which improve the program's accessibility and ease of use, it remains a powerful and complex piece of software. Fortunately, with Logic Pro 8 Tips and Tricks ($19.95)--the latest release from PC Publishing--these helpful updates to Logic Pro no longer have to be so hard to find.

Often there are many ways of achieving the same ends, some more complex than others and some which are not obvious. This book contains hundreds of useful tips to help you obtain the results you desire. It describes how to perform standard studio techniques such as drum editing and replacement and parallel compression as well as tips to improve your workflow.

With the help of Logic Pro 8 Tips and Tricks, you'll soon be whizzing around the program and utilising to the full the amazing potential of Logic Pro 8.

This book will show you how to:

Optimize Logic Pro 8

Organize your work

Get Logic to work your way

Easily record, edit, and mix your music

Utilize various plug-ins to optimize your experience

Navigate Logic's environment

These tips and tricks are culled from the author’s long familiarity with Logic in music production, multimedia work and audio restoration, from his columns for several music technology magazines and from the results of research arising from the many questions he receives from Logic users. This slim but informative book will help you utilise the software to the max.

For a review copy or more information please email pcpublishingpr@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information.

Stephen Bennett is a composer and post-production engineer who uses Logic every day. This is the book he wishes had been available when he first got to grips with the fascinating software that is Logic.

Additional Resources:
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Stephen Bennett
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About PC Publishing
PC Publishing has been publishing books on music technology for over 10 years. Our authors are well known as authorities in their field and we have produced many top books on MIDI, Cubase VST, Emagic Logic and music technology.

PC Publishing's books are widely distributed by O'Reilly Media.

About O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

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