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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:

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...