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                  Our Quick References provide shortcuts, tips, and tricks for over 100 of the most popular programs used in today's business market. Use them to brush up on the basics and to find alternate methods to your favorite commands.

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A reference card or quick reference card is a concise bundling of common syntactic rules and idioms of a particular formal language . It serves as an ad hoc memory aid for an experienced user . In spite of what the name reference card suggest, the term only tends to be used in the narrow context of programming languages or markup languages . However, this concept is now being adopted to portray concise information in many other fields.

ERD Commander is a very powerful tool. It comes in the form of an ISO file which is burned to a CD. The CD can then be used to start a non-bootable installation of Windows XP. This is one of the most useful PC diagnostic tools I have ever used.

What is ophcrack? Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

MS-DOS Short for Microsoft Disk operating system , MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system derived from 86-DOS that was created for IBM compatible computers. MS-DOS was first introduced by Microsoft in August 1981 and was last updated in 1994 when MS-DOS 6.22 was released. Today, MS-DOS is no longer used; however, the command shell, more commonly known as the Windows command line is still used by many users. In the picture to the right, is an example of what a MS-DOS window more appropriately referred to as the Windows command line looks like under Microsoft Windows . Today, most computer users are only familiar with how to navigate Microsoft Windows using the mouse. Unlike Windows, MS-DOS is a command-line and is navigated by using MS-DOS commands. For example, if you wanted to see all the files in a folder in Windows you would double-click the folder to open the folder in Windows Explorer. In MS-DOS to view that sa...

On the Microsoft Windows operating system , the Run command is used to directly open an application or document whose path is known. It functions more or less like a single-line command line interface .

Cisco icons are globally recognized and accepted as the standard in network icon topologies. Edraw Network Diagram software includes the standard Cisco Corporate Icons. It's easy to design and diagram your network diagrams.

Find keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft products in the following table listed by product name.

                                     Ascii was very simplistic, and so was extended by adding 'extended' sets by various manufacturers. Apart from being confusing this was still restricted to 256 characters. Now computers are more widely established around the world the need to show other characters such as Japanese and Chinese languages along with various symbols became more important. Unicode is an attempt to standardise every character possible and the latest version (4) is shown below. Tables are in PDF format so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.

                The following table is nothing to do with ASCII, but has been requested by a number of you out there. When a key on your keyboard is pressed, a code is sent which can be recognised by software. Programmers will find the most use for this table to map keys to actions for the function keys etc. 

ISBN: 978-0-470-52593-7 Paperback 792 pages October 2009   Paul Wilton owns his own company, providing online booking systems to vacation property owners, which is largely developed using JavaScript.    Jeremy McPeak is a self-taught programmer who began his career by tinkering with web sites in 1998. He is the coauthor of Professional Ajax , 2nd Edition and several online articles covering topics such as XSLT, ASP.NET Web Forms, and C#. He is currently employed at an energy-based company building in-house conventional and web applications.

            ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long time ago and now the non-printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. Below is the ASCII character table and this includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing characters. ASCII was actually designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. If someone says they want your CV however in ASCII format, all this means is they want 'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the raw format that any computer can understand. This is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues. Notepad.exe creates ASCII text, or in MS Word you can...

Again, nothing to do with ASCII really, but has been requested by a number of you out there. To get special characters to show on an HTML web page, special HTML codes can be used (ascii code or word) and are interpretted by the web browser. These HTML codes are otherwise referred to as html entities, html characters or html symbols.

by Anne Boehm and Joel Murach 29 chapters, 1000 pages, 455 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-48-6 If you can create Windows applications using C#, you're ready for this book. It will get you off to a fast start with web programming, no matter whether you're coming to ASP.NET 3.5 with a background in an earlier release of ASP.NET, classic ASP, or Java servlets/JSP...or with no web background at all. In fact, by the end of chapter 4, you'll know how to use Visual Studio 2008 to develop and test multi-page database applications for the web. No other ASP.NET book gets you started that fast. But this book is mo...

by Bryan Syverson and Joel Murach 22 chapters, 778 pages, 336 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-51-6 When we published the first edition of this book, we heard from plenty of developers who were just starting out using Microsoft SQL Server and found this to be a great book for training. But we also heard from a lot of experienced developers who read it and were amazed to discover how much they didn't know about SQL. That's why we've dubbed this book "the SQL book that most developers don't even know they need." So whether you're new to SQL...or whether you've been squeaking by with the SQL you know, never realizing how much you're missing out on...this is the book for you. For example, you'll learn: How to create complex inner and outer joins, summary queries, and subqueries that do more of the database processing for you so that your ...

by Joel Murach 25 chapters, 812 pages, 353 illustrations ISBN 978-1-890774-59-2 This is the latest edition of our best-selling C# book. The content continues to evolve with the language, of course, but one thing has stayed the same over the years: We still call this "the C# book you'll wish you'd bought first" because it gets you developing professional Windows Forms applications without any wasted time or effort.

by Anne Boehm and Ged Mead 18 chapters, 714 pages, 320 illustrations ISBN 978-1-890774-62-2 If you're going to develop serious database applications in Visual Basic…the kind that businesses rely on every day…then this is the book for you. It teaches you how to use Visual Studio 2010 and ADO.NET 4 to develop professional database applications for both Windows and the web as quickly and easily as possible. And it covers the full gamut of skills you need, from using built-in data tools that generate ADO.NET code to writing your own ADO.NET code from scratch so you can closely control how the database processing works:

Murach's Oracle SQL and PL/SQL by Joel Murach 18 chapters,627 pages, 271illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-50-9   If you're developing applications that access Oracle databases, why not let SQL do more of the work for you? With the new, free, Express Edition of Oracle Database and Oracle SQL Developer (also free), you can set up the database environment you need and train yourself right on your own computer. This new book shows you how! Get started fast with Oracle SQL Developer In chapter 1, you'll quickly master the database concepts you have to know to handle Oracle databases effectively. Then, chapter 2 gets you started using Oracle SQL Developer. This graphical tool makes it far easier to work with an Oracle database than it is with command-line tools like SQL*Plus,...

Murach's Java SE 6 by Joel Murach and Andrea Steelman 22 chapters, 810 pages, 351 illustrations ISBN-10: 1-890774-42-1; ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-42-4 "I love your Java book. It cuts right to the essential information, providing the perfect balance between too many details and too little information. I bought another well-known Java book, but I spent several hours trying to learn what I learned from your book in about 45 minutes." That's what one developer wrote us about the JDK 5 edition of our core Java book. Now, you can expect that same practical, time-saving approach in the current edition that covers the latest version of Java, Java SE 6. What you'll learn from the SE 6 edit...

by Anne Boehm 23 chapters, 836 pages, 365 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-60-8 If you know how to create Windows applications using Visual Basic, you're ready for this latest edition of our classic web programming book. It will get you off to a fast start with web programming, no matter whether you're coming to ASP.NET 4 with a background in an earlier release of ASP.NET, classic ASP, Java servlets/JSP, PHP...or with no web background at all. In fact, by the end of chapter 4, you'll know how to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop and test multi-page database applications for the web. But this book is much more than a beginning book. By the time you're done, you'll have the professiona...

by Joel Murach and Andrea Steelman    24 chapters, 729 pages, 329 illustrations ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-44-8 Ever since we published the first edition of this book back in 2003, we've been getting feedback like this from developers: "This book is excellent, excellent, excellent! The authors have a gift for developing the topic of JSP, Servlets, and building a Java-based ecommerce site in a methodical, easy-to-understand approach." Now, I'm delighted to tell you that you'll feel the same way about this new, 2nd edition. The content has been redone from start to finish, so you'll learn the best features, tools, and techniques for developing today's web applications (see what's NEW below).But our popular approach hasn't changed: This 2nd edition still presents Java web programming ...

by Ray Harris 20 chapters, 764 pages, 337 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-55-4 Today, web users expect web sites to provide advanced features, dynamic user interfaces, and fast response times. To deliver that, you need to know the JavaScript language. Beyond that, though, you need to know how to use JavaScript to script the Document Object Model (or DOM). Now, at last, you can learn both JavaScript and DOM scripting in this one great book. In fact, by the end of chapter 3, you'll be able to develop and debug significant JavaScript applications. By the end of section 2, you'll know the complete JavaScript language and some elementary DOM scripting. And by end of section 3, you will have raised your DOM scripting skills to an expert level.