Feeling reluctant? The Handbook for Reluctant Database Administrators provides you with a solid grasp of what you'll need to design, build, secure, and maintain a database. Author Josef Finsel writes from an understanding point of view; he also crossed over from programming to database administration. Furthermore, database administration veteran Francis Stanisci comments throughout the book, sharing insight from his own years of experience.

Non-VB programmers are shown how they can have the same database ease that Visual Basic programmers have: step-by-step coverage of data access in Visual Studio .NET, with example code in C#.

With this one book, developers can cover the complete mobile development process, from conception through development and onto deployment.

Expert author John Mueller provides a complete view of Microsoft's free Web site creation program.

This is the complete hands-on guide to mastering the art of Content Management Systems (CMS) and Web site development using the .NET Framework.

Professional graphics designers will welcome this practical guide to Acrobat 5 because it tells why and when to use processes, as well as how. Includes projects, tutorials and demonstrations.

Object-Oriented Flash MX teaches object-oriented programming skills using Flash MX ActionScript. It assumes no previous programming experience and encourages Flash users that normally avoid ActionScript.

Advanced .NET Remoting is the first book that really offers in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting Framework. The first part of the book covers everything a developer needs to know to use to the Framework and its capabilities in real world applications (Server Activated Objects vs. Client Activated Objects, formatters, channels, lifetime issues, security, configuration files, etc.) and the second part shows how the Framework really uses message sinks and sink providers, and gives in-depth advise on why and how to implement message and channel sinks.

This is a quick and easy, and even fun, tutorial for beginner VB.NET programmers, especially those learning from scratch or moving from VB6.

Steve Harris shows current .NET developers (with programming experience) a brand new programming model that lets them immediately use ASP.NET to create Web applications, including both Web Form applications and Web Services.