A reference for professional developers wanting to discover the new features of Silverlight 4. Matthew MacDonald's expert advice guides you through creating rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you're most productive in-no matter what the target platform.

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A learn-by-doing tutorial, aims to provide clear guidance and hands-on examples for creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications. Shows how to build and host SOAP and REST services, maintain service contracts and data contracts, control configuration and communications programmatically etc.

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Shows how to use Excel 2010 to gain insight and solve problems in virtually every area of business, from finance and marketing to quality management. Utilizing real-world examples, he demonstrates how to make the most of powerful new Excel 2010 features, including Sparklines, Excel Web App, Slicer, and Excel's new Solver and calculation engine.

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During the last decade, artificial ants have experienced rapid development in the research community, mainly for solving optimization problems. This book provides an overview of the situation ant colony algorithms reached. It encompasses solution methods of hard optimization problems and new trends for collective intelligence.

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Updated 3rd edition of slim on-the-job reference guide uses numerous examples to address the language's complexity. Covers key aspects of SQL used in Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL including the syntax for querying, managing transactions, and making changes to data,  SQL functions, type conversion functions and formats, and regular expression syntax.

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Written for developers already conversant with C# this fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial guides you from creating "Hello World" to data-driven rich Internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Covers the basics quickly and dives into the heart of Silverlight development using XAML, Visual Studio and the Expression design suite.

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With an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone who wants to begin Windows programming this 3rd edition has been updated to cover this Visual Basic 2010. It begins by describing the installation process then introduces form controls, application properties, the programming language, and problem-solving techniques. See full review.

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With a rich set of over 1,000 APIs, iPhone SDK 4 provides a range of technologies to enhance and create applications for the iPhone. This Visual QuickStart Guide focuses on the parts of the SDK that are specifically geared toward the iPhone. Everything is covered to create a complete application.

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The subtitle of this book is "Why people on your team don't act on good ideas, and how to convince them they should". It discusses the  types of resistance technologists face in many organizations with a set of patterns to chatactersie the problems and techniques for oercoming them.

With the subtitle "The perfect PC is the one you build yourself"  this up-to-date guide has precisely what you need to know. Learn about PC fundamentals, how to plan your project using the latest components, where and how to buy the parts you need, and how to assemble everything with step-by-step instructions and clear, easy-to-follow images.

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Companion to Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform this VB edition has been comprehensively revised  to accurately reflect the VB 10 language specification for the .NET 4.0 platform. You'll find new chapters covering the important concepts of dynamic lookups, named and optional arguments, Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), improved COM interop, and variance for generics.

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Hand-pick apps for work, leisure, travel, games, and more. Capitalize on your time with genius productivity apps, or fritter it away with deliriously fun games. However you use your iPhone or iPod Touch, Best iPhone Apps shows you how to unlock your glossy gadget's potential.

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