Programming Visual Basic 2008 Build .NET 3.5 Applications with Microsoft's RAD Tool for Business

Ever since Visual Basic was merged into .NET, it's become the core language for creating business applications with Windows. The latest version, VB 2008, is even more useful -- and provides even more incentive for migrating from VB 6. All it lacks is a go...

 The Art of Science of Digital Compositing Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics

Readership Developers, artists, and creative directors in film and computer graphics special effect, and students in these disciplines. Quotes 17 new case-studies provide in-depth looks at the compositing work done on films such as Chronicles of ...

 Quantum Computing

This book is devoted to quantum computing, a new, multidisciplinary research area crossing quantum mechanics, theoretical computer science and mathematics. It contains an introduction to quantum computing as well as the most important recent results on th...

  C++ for Game Programmers

C++ for Game Programmers, second edition is a completely updated and expanded edition of this best-selling reference. As with the first edition, the book is not intended to replace foundational C++ books and reference material: instead, it supplements the...

 Learning Java

Version 5.0 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK is the most important upgrade since Java first appeared a decade ago. With Java 5.0, you'll not only find substantial changes in the platform, but to the language itself-something that developers of Java took...

 Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book

Move over Final Cut Pro. There's a new king of the digital video editing hill, and it doesn't even work on a Mac (though it may be enough to lure some Mac loyalists over). Eschewing cross-platform support for a focus on speed, features, and a quickness to...

 Real World Adobe Illustrator 10

Entertaining, up-to-date, and comprehensive, Real World Adobe Illustrator 10 is the definitive, everything-you-need-to-know guide to the world's leading vector-based illustration program. Go under the hood of Illustrator 10 with veteran author Deke McClel...

  Microsoft Word 2007 Bible

Make Microsoft's brave new Word work for you Microsoft's Word 2007 rewrites the book on word processing. New to Word? The Word 2007 Bible helps you soar over the hurdles and quickly brings you up to speed. A Word veteran? You'll discover new ways to co...

 Programming WPF Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is de...

 Learning and Generalization With Applications to Neural Networks

How does it differ from first edition? Includes new material on: support vector machines (SVM's), fat shattering dimensions applications to neural network learning, learning with dependent samples generated by beta-mixing process, connections betwee...

 Principles of Radar and Sonar Signal Processing

Principles of Radar and Sonar Signal Processing offers you a thorough presentation of the latest technologies in conventional and adaptive signal processing theory, and covers techniques for detailed analysis of physical signatures of targets and clutter....

 The Shellcoder's Handbook Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes

This much-anticipated revision, written by the ultimate group of top security experts in the world, features 40 percent new content on how to find security holes in any operating system or application New material addresses the many new exploitation te...

 XAML in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference

When Microsoft releases Windows Vista, the new operating system will support applications that employ graphics now used by computer games--clear, stunning, and active. The cornerstone for building these new user interfaces is XAML ("Zammel"), the XML-base...

 Linux in a Nutshell

Over the last few years, Linux has grown both as an operating system and a tool for personal and business use. Simultaneously becoming more user friendly and more powerful as a back-end system, Linux has achieved new plateaus: the newer filesystems have s...

 Windows 98 in a Nutshell

Windows 98 in a Nutshell is a comprehensive, compact reference that systematically unveils what serious users of Windows 98 will find interesting and useful. Little known details of the operating system, utility programs, and configuration settings are al...