Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Microsoft Exchange Server

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

book coverMicrosoft Exchange Server 2010 : administrator’s pocket consultant / William R. Stanek, Microsoft Press, 2010

This book for the Microsoft email systems admin looks useful. It is billed as a ‘pocket’ book: do you have large pockets? 800 pages.

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Netbook

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Netbook / Joli Ballew, McGraw-Hill, 2010

Here is a user guide to netbooks. It claims to cover Windows and Linux netbooks, but the latter does not get much coverage. 300 pages.

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SQL Server 2008 High Availability

Friday, February 12th, 2010

book coverMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability with clustering & database mirroring / Michael Otey, McGraw-Hill, 2010

This book will help you configure a database server using Microsoft pint and click tools. 300 pages.

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Mastering Microsoft Virtualization

Friday, February 12th, 2010

book coverMastering Microsoft Virtualization / Tim Cerling, Wiley, 2010

How to configure virtualization using Microsoft tools. 500 pages.

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Burning the Ships

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

book coverBurning the Ships : intellectual property and the transformation of Microsoft / Marshall Phelps, Wiley, 2009

Here is an interesting account of how Microsoft re-thought its approach to intellectual property during the 2000’s. It is written by a Microsoft executive who previously managed IBM and helped it reverse its decline by enforcing its patents. In this book, you have to read between the lines. Hardcover, 150 pages.

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Microsoft Windows Server

Monday, February 8th, 2010

book coverMicrosoft Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant
/ William R. Stanek, Microsoft Press, 2008

This book for the Microsoft systems admin looks useful. It is billed as a ‘pocket’ book: do you have large pockets? 600 pages.

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Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5

Monday, February 8th, 2010

book coverMurach’s ADO.NET 3.5 : LINQ and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 / Anne Boehm, Murach, c2009.

This is for the programmer who is developing web apps on Microsoft servers. It starts with very simple steps. Large format, 650 pages.

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ASP.NET MVC Framework

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

book coverPro ASP.NET MVC Framework / Steven Sanderson, Apress, 2009

This well written book for web developers starts slow but rapidly gets advanced.

  • Architectural background to ASP.NET MVC, including Model–View–Controller and REST concepts.
  • ASP.NET MVC framework with detailed coverage of all aspects of the framework and the official MVC development toolkit.
  • Test–driven development in action.
  • Translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC.
  • Security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0.

550 pages.

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Windows 7 for Developers

Monday, January 18th, 2010

book coverIntroducing Windows 7 for Developers / Yochay Kiriaty, Microsoft Press, 2010

There is lots of new functionality in Windows libraries.

  1. Welcome to Windows 7
  2. Integrate with the Windows 7 Taskbar: Basic Features
  3. Integrate with the Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features
  4. Organize My Data: Libraries in Windows 7
  5. Touch Me Now: An Introduction to Multitouch Programming
  6. Touch Me Now: Advanced Multitouch Programming
  7. Building Multitouch Applications in Managed Code
  8. Using Windows 7 Touch with Silverlight
  9. Introduction to the Sensor and Location Platform
  10. Tell Me Where I Am: Location-Aware Applications
  11. Develop with the Windows Ribbon, Part 1
  12. Develop with the Windows Ribbon, Part 2
  13. Rediscover the Fundamentals: It’s All About Performance

350 pages.

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Switching to Microsoft Windows 7

Monday, January 18th, 2010

book coverSwitching to Microsoft Windows 7 : the painless way to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista / Elna Tymes, Que, 2010

Here’s a user manual for Windows 7. This book is needed for the few Windows features that you did not learn by exploring a machine. 200 pages.

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