Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Craig Utley, The Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic. NET

Craig Utley, The Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic. NET 
ISBN: 0672322641 | edition 2001 | PDF | 224 pages | 14 mb

A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic .NET helps current Visual Basic developers identify and understand some of the major changes are between Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET. This book also explores why developers should move to Visual Basic. Learn about the .NET framework, VB .NET VB .NET inheritance, VB .NET web services, VB .NET web applications, VB .NET Windows services, .NET Assemblies, ADO.NET and ASP.NET.

Beginning C# 5.0 Databases, 2nd edition

Vidya Vrat Agarwal, "Beginning C# 5.0 Databases, 2nd edition" 
2012 | ISBN: 1430242604 | 440 pages | PDF, EPUB | 30 MB

Assuming only basic knowledge of C#, Beginning C# 5.0 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers.

A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012, Beginning C# 5.0 Databases explains and demonstrates various techniques and ways to build a database application using T–SQL and C#. 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.
Comprehensively and concisely explains fundamental database concepts and database programming techniques
Rich in step-by-step working examples of both T–SQL and C# programs
Covers all the features ADO.NET most database programming ever requires

What you’ll learn
How relational databases work and how to use them
How to create database and table objects using SQL Server 2012
How to write SQL queries to modify data in SQL Tables
How to write SQL queries to retrieve data using various querying techniques, including JOINS
How to write stored procedures in T–SQL and call them from C# 5.0 programs
How C# 5.0 uses various techniques to access databases
How to build Windows form based applications
How to handle runtime anomalies i.e. Exceptions
How to program with each individual object of ADO .NET
How to use XML in database applications
How to use LINQ to simplify C# database programming
How to use ADO .NET Entity Framework
How to use SQL CLR to create stored procedures using C#

Professional Android Open Accessory Programming with Arduino

Andreas Goransson, David Cuartielles Ruiz, "Professional Android Open Accessory Programming with Arduino" 
2013 | ISBN: 1118454766 | PDF, EPUB | 408 pages | 52 MB

Learn how to control your home or car from your Android smartphone - air conditioning, lights, entertainment systems, and more!

Android Open Accessory is a new, simple, and secure protocol for connecting any microcontroller-empowered device to an Android smartphone or tablet. This Wrox guide shows Android programmers how to use AOA with Arduino, the microcontroller platform, to control such systems as lighting, air conditioning, and entertainment systems from Android devices. Furthermore, it teaches the circuit-building skills needed to create games and practical products that also take advantage of Android technology.
Introduces Android Open Accessory and shows how to set up the hardware and development environment
Explains how to code both Android and Arduino elements of an accessory
Features four complete projects developers can build using various sensors and indicators/actuators, including source code
Gives Android developers the tools to create powerful, sophisticated projects

Professional Android Open Accessory with Android ADK and Arduino opens exciting new opportunities for Android developers.

C. J. Date, Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006

C. J. Date, Date on Database: Writings 2000-2006 
ISBN: 159059746X | edition 2006 | PDF | 566 pages | 11 mb

Date on Database: Writings 2000--2006 captures some of the freshest thinking from widely known and respected relational database pioneer C. J. Date. Known for his tenacious defense of relational theory in its purest form, Date tackles many topics that are important to database professionals, including the difference between model and implementation, data integrity, data redundancy, deviations in SQL from the relational model, and much more.