“…Praise Page for Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET “This is the .NET WinForms book to have. If you have been looking for a good Windows Forms book for your bookshelf, here it is. …”

“…You’ll learn to program SQL Azure from Silverlight, ASP.NET, WinForms, and from SQL Reporting Services. You’ll also understand how to manage the platform by planning for scalability, troubleshooting performance issues, and implementing strong security. …”

“…Additional topics covered include: The .NET Framework; Programs, Units, and Namespaces;.NET Security Custom WinForms Controls; Memory Management and Garbage Collection; COM and COM+ Interoperability; ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Web Services…”

“…Full of practical, detailed examples, it’s been fully revised and updated for Winforms using C# 5.0 and Visual Studio 2012 and offers the most complete, detailed, and gentle introduction to database technology for all C# programmers at any level of experience. …”

“…Katherine Hayles and responses to the themes above written by Marilyn Cooper, Paul Prior, Diana George, and Andrea Lunsford. Authors include established scholars in digital writing studies and digital humanities, as well as new voices…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Note: sections marked with an asterisk can be skipped on first reading -- Preface xv -- Preface to the First Edition xxi -- About the Companion Website xxix -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 Classical and robust approaches to statistics 1 -- 1.2 Mean and standard deviation 2 -- 1.3 The “three sigma edit” rule 6 -- 1.4 Linear regression 8 -- 1.4.1 Straight-line regression 8 -- 1.4.2 Multiple linear regression 9 -- 1.5 Correlation coefficients 12 -- 1.6 Other parametric models 13 -- 1.7 Problems 16 -- 2 Location and Scale 17 -- 2.1 The location model 17 -- 2.2 Formalizing departures from normality 19 -- 2.3 M-estimators of location 22 -- 2.3.1 Generalizing maximum likelihood 22 -- 2.3.2 The distribution of M-estimators 25 -- 2.3.3 An intuitive view of M-estimators 28 -- 2.3.4 Redescending M-estimators 29 -- 2.4 Trimmed and Winsorized means 31 -- 2.5 M-estimators of scale 33 -- 2.6 Dispersion estimators 35 -- 2.7 M-estimators of location with unknown dispersion 37 -- 2.7.1 Previous estimation of dispersion 38 -- 2.7.2 Simultaneous M-estimators of location and dispersion 38 -- 2.8 Numerical computing of M-estimators 40 -- 2.8.1 Location with previously-computed dispersion estimation 40 -- 2.8.2 Scale estimators 41 -- 2.8.3 Simultaneous estimation of location and dispersion 42 -- 2.9 Robust confidence intervals and tests 42 -- 2.9.1 Confidence intervals 42 -- 2.9.2 Tests 44 -- 2.10 Appendix: proofs and complements 45 -- 2.10.1 Mixtures 45 -- 2.10.2 Asymptotic normality of M-estimators 46 -- 2.10.3 Slutsky’s lemma 47 -- 2.10.4 Quantiles 47 -- 2.10.5 Alternative algorithms for M-estimators 47 -- 2.11 Recommendations and software 48 -- 2.12 Problems 49 -- 3 Measuring Robustness 51 -- 3.1 The influence function 55 -- 3.1.1 *The convergence of the SC to the IF 57 -- 3.2 The breakdown point 58 -- 3.2.1 Location M-estimators 59 -- 3.2.2 Scale and dispersion estimators 59 -- 3.2.3 Location with previously-computed dispersion estimator 60 -- 3.2.4 Simultaneous estimation 61.…”

“…The book emphasizes DMX for use in SSMS against SSAS, but the queries also apply to SSRS, SSIS, DMX in SQL, WinForms, WebForms, and many other applications. Techniques for generating DMX syntax from graphical tools are also demonstrated in this valuable resource. …”

“…The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. …”

“…The fourteen chapters are organized into four sections, addressing equity and assessment, classroom evaluation and assessment, multimodal evaluation and assessment, and program revisioning and program assessment. Andrea Lunsford provides the foreword to the book; Edward White is the author of the afterword…”

“…The major excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wideford Landscape Project provided an unprecedented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic occupation, bridging the gap between domestic and ceremonial architecture and form, exploring the transition from wood to stone and relationships between the living and the dead and the role of material culture. …”

“…TestStack.White (sometimes, written called teststack white) is a framework drives WinForms and WPF applications. This course covers: Theoretical background behind different types of testing (unit, integration, and acceptance testing) SpecFlow: generating steps, running and debugging tests, passing parameters, scenario outlines, data tables, converting parameters, converting data tables, custom conversions, sharing data, categorizing tests, scoped execution, hooks, and other features Selenium WebDriver: Locators, XPath locators, CSS locators, interacting with all element types, timeouts (explicit and implicit), locator priorities, picking scenarios to Test, the Page Object design pattern, the Page Object factory, uploading files, and more Scraping a live website with Selenium WebDriver Selenium Extras: managing a web browser TestStack.White and building a WPF app by TDD (with MVVM) Appendices: intro to unit testing and test-driven development…”

“…You’ll learn to program SQL Azure from ASP.NET, from WinForms, and from SQL Reporting Services. You’ll learn to manage the platform by planning for scalability, troubleshooting performance issues, and implementing strong security. …”

“…Check out the related LiveLessons video product, C# 2010 Fundamentals: Parts I, II and III, containing 20+ hours of video synchronized to this book: www.deitel.com/livelessons. .NET 4, Types, Arrays, Exception Handling LINQ, Object/Collection Initializers OOP: Classes, Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Interfaces WinForms, WPF, XAML, Event Handling WPF GUI/Graphics/Multimedia Silverlight(R) Lists, Queues, Stacks, Trees Generic Collections, Methods and Classes XML(R), LINQ to XML Database, LINQ to SQL ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET AJAX Web Forms, Web Controls WCF Web Services OOD/UML(R) Case Study…”

“…The book begins with an overview of the principles of software engineering and then introduces Microsoft technologies such as Visual C#, Windows Forms (WinForms), ADO.NET, and ASP.NET. Central to this practical guide is a case study developing a working imaging application. …”

“…Install IronRuby and choose the right development environment for your needs Master IronRuby syntax, methods, blocks, classes, modules, libraries, and more Write code that takes advantage of IronRuby’s dynamic and metaprogramming features Utilize .NET services and frameworks to write more powerful Ruby code than ever before Incorporate efficient data access into your IronRuby applications Use IronRuby to build Windows software with both WinForms and WPF Rapidly build high-quality Web applications with IronRuby and Ruby on Rails Create rich Web 2.0 applications with IronRuby and Microsoft Silverlight Test .NET code with Ruby’s leading unit testing frameworks Run IronRuby code from other .NET code, and create .NET code libraries that fit well with IronRuby code…”

“…Coverage includes Migrating legacy .NET software to more flexible, extensible, and maintainable architectures—without breaking it Reengineering web applications with the MVC pattern, Winforms software with MVP, and WPF/Silverlight¿ systems with MVVM Asking the right questions to predict refactoring problems before they happen Planning and organizing reengineering projects to apply the right expertise to each task at the right time Using innovative Test Doubling to make unit testing even more effective Applying Dependency Inversion to break tight coupling and promote easier development and testing Leveraging source control, defect tracking, and continuous integration “Cleaning up” legacy solutions to improve them before you even touch business logic Establishing solid development infrastructure to support your reengineering project Refactoring to services—including advanced techniques using Repositories, Domain Models,¿ and the Command Dispatcher Refactoring to controller/view or ViewModel/View pairs…”

“…Later, the book will show you how to upgrade your old WinForms apps to .NET Core 3. The concluding chapters will then help you use SignalR effectively to add real-time functionality to your applications, before demonstrating how to implement MongoDB in your apps. …”

“…What You Will Learn Create a persistent object model to move data in and out of your database Build the database from your model automatically Configure NHibernate for use with WebForms, MVC, WPF, and WinForms applications Create database queries using a variety of methods Improve the performance of your applications using a variety of techniques Build an infrastructure for fast, easy, test-driven development of your data access layer Implement entity validation, auditing, full-text search, horizontal partitioning (sharding), and spatial queries using NHibernate Contrib projects In Detail NHibernate is a mature, flexible, scalable, and feature-complete open source project for data access. …”

“…Bug Alert Description: Changing the startup form's name in a VB WinForms app does not update the "Startup form" #4517 Explanation: In the latest Visual Basic update on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally introduced a significant bug that you should be aware of. …”