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“…Therefore, we've devoted significant content to exploring COM internals: Interface-based programming How COM interfaces work internally How COM components are activated How versioning COM components works in Visual Basic How to use interfaces Passing objects by reference or by value What it means to have multithreaded applications How declarative programming works How to program within a distributed transaction How to add role-based security to applications The second section focuses on incorporating individual COM+ services, like transaction support, security, and asynchronous operations, into applications. …”

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“…Values, formulas, functions, formatting, and much more Exploring StarOffice Calc's powerful spreadsheet views Building reliable spreadsheets with StarOffice Calc's auditing features Expert data analysis: Subtotals, consolidation, sensitivity analysis, goal seek, and scenarios Working with lists and databases Powerful communication with StarOffice charts Publishing spreadsheets on the Web or your corporate intranet Working with Microsoft Excel files — and Microsoft Excel users Don't just run StarOffice Calc! …”

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“…He covers XSLT and XPath, a critical companion standard, and addresses topics ranging from basic transformations to complex sorting and linking. He explores extension functions on a variety of different XSLT processors and shows ways to combine multiple documents using XSLT. …”

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