• Written for C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0: contains coverage of generics, Master Pages, the DataGridView, and other new features
• Covers Web development, Windows development, data management, security, threading, remoting, and much more
• Presents hundreds of non-trivial code examples that help you solve real-world problems

The Complete and Comprehensive Developer's Guide to C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0

Core C# and .NET is the no-nonsense, example-rich guide to achieving exceptional results with C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0. Writing for experienced programmers, Stephen Perry presents today's best practices for leveraging both C# 2.0 language features and Microsoft's .NET 2.0 infrastructure.

Like all books in the Core Series, Core C# and .NET focuses on solving real-world problems with serious, non-trivial code. Perry's broad, deep coverage ranges from new C# generics to Web services, from reflection to security. He systematically introduces the development of Windows Forms applications and the effective use of GDI+ graphics classes. He offers detailed guidance on data management with XML and ADO.NET, plus advanced coverage of threading, remoting, and code security. Finally, Perry presents an extensive section on Web development, covering ASP.NET, state management, HTTP requests, and much more.

With practical insights into everything from scalability to localization, this is the C# book you've been searching for: your definitive guide to building production-quality C# applications.

Core C# and .NET delivers

• Best practices for building C#/.NET Windows applications, Web applications, and Web services
• Expert insight into security, scalability, and other crucial issues
• Hundreds of professional-quality code examples
• In-depth coverage of the latest C# 2.0 features, including generics

EVERY CORE SERIES BOOK:

DEMONSTRATES practical techniques used by professional developers

FEATURES robust, thoroughly tested sample code and realistic examples

FOCUSES on the cutting-edge technologies you need to master today

PROVIDES expert advice that will help you build superior software
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Suddenly your Web server becomes unavailable. When you investigate, you realize that a flood of packets is surging into your network. You have just become one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of a denial-of-service attack, a pervasive and growing threat to the Internet. What do you do?

Internet Denial of Service sheds light on a complex and fascinating form of computer attack that impacts the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of millions of computers worldwide. It tells the network administrator, corporate CTO, incident responder, and student how DDoS attacks are prepared and executed, how to think about DDoS, and how to arrange computer and network defenses. It also provides a suite of actions that can be taken before, during, and after an attack.

Inside, you'll find comprehensive information on the following topics

• How denial-of-service attacks are waged
• How to improve your network's resilience to denial-of-service attacks
• What to do when you are involved in a denial-of-service attack
• The laws that apply to these attacks and their implications
• How often denial-of-service attacks occur, how strong they are, and the kinds of damage they can cause
• Real examples of denial-of-service attacks as experienced by the attacker, victim, and unwitting accomplices

The authors' extensive experience in handling denial-of-service attacks and researching defense approaches is laid out clearly in practical, detailed terms.

Fully Updated to Reflect Major Improvements and Configuration Changes in Samba-3.0.11 through 3.0.20+!

You’ve deployed Samba: Now get the most out of it with today’s definitive guide to maximizing Samba performance, stability, reliability, and power in your production environment. Direct from members of the Samba Team, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, Second Edition, offers the most systematic and authoritative coverage of Samba’s advanced features and capabilities. It has been extensively updated to reflect major improvements in the Samba-3.0 series of releases and additional performance enhancements in Samba-3.0.20 and later.

Use this book to go far beyond basic deployment, leveraging all of Samba’s components, from directory services to remote administration. Use it to find practical optimization techniques for any environment, from the workgroup to the enterprise. Use it to find detailed guidance and best practices for troubleshooting and problem solving. And, if your background is in Windows networking, use this book to get up to speed rapidly with Samba network administration in Linux/UNIX environments.

• NEW! User Rights and Privileges features and their impact on default system behavior
• NEW! Expanded LDAP capabilities, the new Winbind subsystem, and Samba’s improved ACL handling
• NEW! Detailed coverage of the powerful Samba-3.x net local/remote administration utility
• NEW! Comprehensive documentation of IDMAP functionality
• NEW! Proven techniques for improving performance with large directories
• NEW! Samba integration with Windows Server 2003 and the latest versions of Active Directory
• Advanced techniques: interdomain trusts, loadable VFS file system drivers, distributed authentication, desktop profile management, CUPS printing, high availability, and more
• Contains a dramatically improved, more-detailed index

Tinker with the tools of Web design—in the Garage!

Learn how to construct cool and interactive Web sites with this hands-on guide to the world of Web design and usability. In this title from Prentice Hall PTR’s Garage Series, author Marc Campbell shows you the “ins and outs” of designing sites with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as core technologies. Using layout diagrams and graphics to illustrate your journey, Campbell takes you through every step of designing Web sites, from basic layout and usability to uploading your site onto the Web. Want to learn more on a specific topic? Flip to one of the book’s “links” that help you delve deeper into certain areas, allowing you to browse the text quickly and easily!

Specific topics covered include

• Managing pop-up windows
• Working with scripts and style sheets
• Controlling design space with HTML and CSS
• Making rollover graphics
• Using text elements properly
• Creating e-mail links and hyperlinks
• Embedding media in Web pages
• Choosing a Web host
• Testing and uploading Web sites

Whether you’re new to Web design or you “speak” HTML as a second language, Web Design Garage will help you discover the solutions you need to create fun and effective Web sites.

"This book is the best way for beginning developers to learn wxWidgets programming in C++. It is a must-have for programmers thinking of using wxWidgets and those already using it."

—Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software and the Open Source Applications Foundation

• Build advanced cross-platform applications that support native look-and-feel on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and even Pocket PC

• Master wxWidgets from start to finish—even if you've never built GUI applications before

• Leverage advanced wxWidgets capabilities: networking, multithreading, streaming, and more

• CD-ROM: library of development tools, source code, and sample applications

• Foreword by Mitch Kapor, founder, Lotus Development and Open Source Application Foundation

wxWidgets is an easy-to-use, open source C++ API for writing GUI applications that run on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and even Pocket PC—supporting each platform's native look and feel with virtually no additional coding. Now, its creator and two leading developers teach you all you need to know to write robust cross-platform software with wxWidgets. This book covers everything from dialog boxes to drag-and-drop, from networking to multithreading. It includes all the tools and code you need to get great results, fast. From AMD to AOL, Lockheed Martin to Xerox, world-class developers are using wxWidgets to save money, increase efficiency, and reach new markets. With this book, you can, too.

• wxWidgets quickstart: event/input handling, window layouts, drawing, printing, dialogs, and more

• Working with window classes, from simple to advanced

• Memory management, debugging, error checking, internationalization, and other advanced topics

• Includes extensive code samples for Windows, Linux (GTK+), and Mac OS X

The CD-ROM contains all of the source code from the book; wxWidgets distributions for Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and other platforms; the wxWidgets reference guide; and development tools including the OpenWatcom C++ compiler, the poEdit translation helper, and the DialogBlocks user interface builder.
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“Linux software is like gold on the moon. It’s wonderful, if you have a way to get it.”
—Kevin Carmony, President and CEO, Linspire Inc.

There’s a better alternative: Linux. It’s not just for “geeks” anymore. It’s for you—and it’s for real. With Peter van der Linden’s Guide to Linux^®, Linux isn’t just powerful, it’s easy and fun.

While writing this book, the author spent an entire year helping new Linux users get started and once again demonstrated that he is flat-out brilliant at simplifying technology. He knows all the tricks and the quickest ways to help make you productive. Before demonstrating how to do something faster, easier, and better with Linux, he reminds you how it works in Windows. Along the way, he anticipates potential missteps and questions, and fills in the gaps other books ignore.

• Get connected to the Internet, your email account, instant messaging, and your network
• Get productive with OpenOffice, the amazing Microsoft Office clone that’s absolutely free
• Get solutions with van der Linden’s easy, step-by-step troubleshooting help
• Get into digital media—music, movies, DVDs, CD burning, digital photography, and more
• Get secure and keep your data and email private with CIA-strength encryption
• Get beyond the basics and leave Windows behind, download the best free software, and even master the command line

The book includes a Linspire 5.0 CD-ROM, the world’s easiest desktop Linux! Boot into Linux from the included CD, without installing anything or changing any Windows files at all.

Master Java 5.0 and TDD Together: Build More Robust, Professional Software

Master Java 5.0, object-oriented design, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) by learning them together. Agile Java weaves all three into a single coherent approach to building professional, robust software systems. Jeff Langr shows exactly how Java and TDD integrate throughout the entire development lifecycle, helping you leverage today's fastest, most efficient development techniques from the very outset.

Langr writes for every programmer, even those with little or no experience with Java, object-oriented development, or agile methods. He shows how to translate oral requirements into practical tests, and then how to use those tests to create reliable, high-performance Java code that solves real problems. Agile Java doesn't just teach the core features of the Java language: it presents coded test examples for each of them. This TDD-centered approach doesn't just lead to better code: it provides powerful feedback that will help you learn Java far more rapidly. The use of TDD as a learning mechanism is a landmark departure from conventional teaching techniques.

• Presents an expert overview of TDD and agile programming techniques from the Java developer's perspective

• Brings together practical best practices for Java, TDD, and OO design

• Walks through setting up Java 5.0 and writing your first program

• Covers all the basics, including strings, packages, and more

• Simplifies object-oriented concepts, including classes, interfaces, polymorphism, and inheritance

• Contains detailed chapters on exceptions and logging, math, I/O, reflection, multithreading, and Swing

• Offers seamlessly-integrated explanations of Java 5.0's key innovations, from generics to annotations

• Shows how TDD impacts system design, and vice versa

• Complements any agile or traditional methodology, including Extreme Programming (XP)

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Enter your PHP-Nuke Garage... where you master the most powerful, cheap (and/or free) Web content system ever created, then use it to build great Web sites, portals, or communities... hands-on, step-by-step.

PHP-Nuke is remarkably capable and reliable, but until now, it's been poorly documented. This book fills the gap. Best of all, you can use it even if you have no experience with PHP, databases, coding, or hosting. Drawing on practical examples from a live example site, top IT author/trainer Don Jones illuminates every facet of working with PHP-Nuke: installation, configuration, customization, security, day-to-day administration, and much more.

Topics include: content delivery, design and themes, forums, journals, downloads, member lists, news/reviews, personalization, RSS, archiving, FAQs, feedback, statistics, surveys, pay sites, AvantGo mobile content, Amazon e-commerce links, and more. Jones even shows how to find a PHP-Nuke hosting service to handle the infrastructure for you -- so you can focus on content, not technology.

Organized into 66 easy modules, designed for rapid learning, and based on real examples, PHP-Nuke Garage will help you create the interactive site you've always wanted -- faster than you ever thought possible.

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