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Visual Basic .NET is part of the Visual Studio .NET family of products in addition to Visual C++ and the new programming language Visual C#. While the syntax and style of Visual Basic .NET is very similar to earlier versions of Visual Basic this version has many important improvements, which will ensure that Visual Basic remains as Microsoft's most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for application development. Whether you want to develop applications for Windows or for the World Wide Web (WWW) Visual Basic .NET is an excellent tool for producing reliable, professional applications fast. Visual Basic has set the standard as one of the best development environments for Windows a...
XHTML is a flexible XML-based markup language for designing Web sites. In January 2000, the W3C announced that it was supporting the development of XHTML as a replacement to HTML. HTML will continue to be around for a while, but if you want to develop Web sites for the future you need to switch to XHTML. Designers who make the change find that they can develop faster, better sites using XHTML. Most Web sites are interactive, responding to the viewer. To do this you need to use a scripting language - JavaScript is the most popular scripting language and interfaces easily with XHTML. To develop powerful interactive Web sites you need to understand these technologies and how they work together....
Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 provides an exciting environment for creating and managing web pages and web sites. Fiaz Hussain gives a quick, but effective, introduction to the various key components and tools making up the development studio. Using a hands-on approach, with plenty of animated illustrations, Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 fast: - shows the simple and valuable steps necessary to design, develop, evaluate and publish a web site; - explains the essential components of building a web-site, through hand-coding HTML or JavaScript, or via the Visual Editor, or by means of both; - discusses how to include text, images, links, forms, frames, layers, HTML, JavaScript and style sheets. Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 fast gives an easy explanation of the basic tools needed to build and manage sophisticated web sites quickly. The source code for the examples in the book is available from the Essential Series web site: http://www.essential-series.com
How to create dynamic web environments using the ASP .NET framework! The ASP .NET framework enables the development of dynamic web pages, which can interface to various database systems. Using the Visual Basic .NET language you will be able to begin to create your own web systems with ease. This quick and practical introduction explains: how to setup an ASP.NET development environment, and where to find the various software components.- the syntax and features of the language.- web-based user interaction using ASP .NET forms.- pre-defined ASP .NET objects.- how ASP .NET can interface with databases. Clearly written, this book provides you with all the essential information you need to create your own dynamic web environments using ASP .NET. Additional material is available from the Essential series web site: http://www.essential-series.com
This book is aimed at giving the reader a working knowledge of ColdFusion. It provides instructional advice and explains how ColdFusion works with other web-based technologies. Plenty of working examples are included - also available on a website powered by ColdFusion. The author, Matthew Norman, has written a "get started quick" guide, which describes the setting up of a development system - he talks about how to achieve this on a budget, using techniques that are applicable to large scale operations. Anyone with a working knowledge of the Internet and who wants to learn more about what ColdFusion does and how they can start using it quickly will find this book invaluable.
Starting with an introduction to the development environment, Fiaz Hussain presents a quick and effective guide to the powerful components that make up Macromedia Director 8.5. using a hands-on approach and plenty of illustrations.
How to create dynamic web environments using the PHP language and the MySQL database! If you are familiar with the syntax for C, C++ and Java, then PHP will seem very familiar. Once you have got up to speed with this HTML embedded scripting language, you will soon be creating dynamic HTML database-enabled web pages quickly and easily. This quick and practical introduction explains: - how PHP works and what a dynamic web page is; - the software development environment; - the syntax and features of the language; - how PHP can be integrated with MySQL databases; - dynamic database applications. Clearly written, this book provides you with all the essential information you need to create your own dynamic web environments using PHP. Additional material is available from the Essential series web site: http://www.essential-series.com
This volume is an attempt to capture the essence of the state-of-the-art of intelligent agent technology and to identify the new challenges and opportunities that it is or will be facing. The most important feature of the volume is that it emphasizes a multi-faceted, holistic view of this emerging technology, from its computational foundations OCo in terms of models, methodologies, and tools for developing a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems OCo to its practical impact on tackling real-world problems. Contents: Formal Agent Theories; Computational Architecture and Infrastructure; Learning and Adaptation; Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents; Distributed Intelligence; Agent Based Applications. Readership: Graduate students in computer science and engineering, academics/lecturers, researchers, software/systems engineers, IT engineers and industrialists."
Dark Valley Observing is an act of observing people, things and self. It varies from the very dark over charged feelings such as The Long Road To Nothingness to the light hearted poems like Hello World. It also includes the romantic almost silly poems like Smiling? to the self-contradictory poems like Falling Asleep, Falling Awake. Dark Valley Observing shares one thing with Aladdin's first collection Blue Voice that is meaning is a feeling which the reader interprets. There is no pre-set agenda or pre-coded message. Instead, it is a simple, straight and sometimes lengthy talking of events, thoughts, reflections and imagery. Dark Valley Observing also represents Aladdin's first attempts to e...
Essential Dynamic HTML fast provides a step-by-step approach to DHTML and its techniques - providing everything needed to get a project up and running fast. In addition, it includes lots of tips on how to manage a dynamic site. Using a progressive approach, it describes how to build a dynamic website, starting from data management, to incorporating multimedia effects, audio, video, and animations. It explores the use of dynamic contents, dynamic positioning, the DOM (Document Object Model), and Scripting. Topics covered include: Common HTML Tags, Data Management, Frames, Interactive Sites, Multimedia Effects, Cascade Style Sheets (CSS), Dynamic Contents, Dynamic Positioning, Document Object Model (DOM), Layers, Managing Dynamic Sites: from layout to after design, Scripting.