Windows 95/98 Aisle

The Mother of All Windows 98 Books Woody Leonhard, Barry Simon This is the sequel to their book, The Mother of All Windows 95 Books. It may sound like a strange title, and you may even get funny looks when you tell you're friends what you're reading, but this is truly one of the best books on Windows 98 (or Windows 95) on the market. It's not a rehash of the manual, nor do they tell you the same thing that all the other Win98 books tell you. The authors do an excellent job on keeping a confusing (and sometimes boring) subject fresh and interesting. Definitely a must for any bookshelf.

Introducing Microsoft Windows 98 Russell Borland Introducing Microsoft Windows 98: The Official First Look at the Next Version of Microsoft Windows, from Microsoft Press, was written to support beta releases of this new operating system. This guide is largely oriented toward end users but administrators will find enough technical depth to get an overview of the entire product. The biggest change that Windows 98 will bring is the integration of browser and traditional desktop metaphors.

Microsoft Windows 98 Resource Kit: The Professional's Companion to Windows 98 Microsoft Corporation Windows Resource Kits have always been a quasi-definitive source of information for configuring and troubleshooting Windows. Anyone who does it for a living is almost certain to own a copy. But if you've found that past editions of the Resource Kit covered everything under the sun except the problem that you were trying to solve at the moment, you'll be pleased with this edition, which easily surpasses previous Resource Kits in the depth of coverage and the detailed explanations. The book's massive 1,750-page bulk is divided up into seven major sections covering enterprise deployment and installation, system configuration, networking (including remote access and Windows 98's new Point- to-Point Tunneling Protocol virtual private networking features), Internet and telecommunications, system administration, performance tuning, and the architecture of Windows 98. The bundled CD-ROM contains a collection of nifty diagnostic tools, hardware compatibility lists, card troubleshooting info, and the complete e-text of the book. The Resource Kit is clearly aimed at the professional administrator, and many sections are only relevant to Windows deployment on business networks. But advanced computer users will also find invaluable information about many tasks that they'll need to perform.

Windows 98 Secrets Brian Livingston, Davis Straub This guide shows users how to harness the power of the latest version of Windows with hundreds of undocumented features and shortcuts to optimize performance and productivity.

The Mother of All Windows 95 Books Woody Leonhard, Barry Simon This set--with two CD-ROMs--is the largest and most useful collection of Windows 95 software ever assembled. It includes multimedia samplers--actual portions of the latest and greatest games and references from the leading multimedia publishers, the best Windows 95 shareware, freeware and utilities around, hundreds of icons, clip art and fonts, sound, movie and photo clips, and much more.

No B.S. Guide to Windows 95 Scott Spanbauer Covering exactly what Windows users will need to survive Windows 95--from the day they install it to long into the future--without wasting their valuable time sorting through reams of useless information, this book is structured as a series of questions and answers for specific problems. Throughout, Spanbauer's humorous, efficient approach makes even daunting problems manageable.

Platinum Edition Using Windows 95 Ron Person, Michael Desmond, Robert Voss Bestselling author Ron Person offers detailed tutorials on tasks and/or topics that may challenge expert level users. "Using Windows 95" provides all the information, step-by-step instructions, and software tools one needs to build the ultimate Windows workstation in a networked/Internet-ready environment. The CD-ROM contains over 150 of Que's "Editor's Choice" shareware tools.

Visual Basic Aisle

Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To Noel Jerke, George Szabo, David Jung, Don Kiely Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To is a practical step-by-step guide to implementing three-tiered distributed slient/server solutions using the tools provided in Microsoft's Visual Basic 6. It addresses the needs of programmers looking fo -Save hundreds of hours of programming time by providing step-by-step solutions to more than 75 Visual Basic 6 Client/Server problems -Covers topics like OOP, ODBC, OLE, RDO, distributed computing, and three-tier client/server development -Addresses the issues associated with deploying business rules on an intermediate, centralized server

Visual Basic 6 Interactive Course Mark Spenik, Andrew J. Indovina, Pierre Boutquin, David Jung, John Harrington, Heidi Brumbaugh If you've ever wanted to learn about VB in more practical manner than the "21 day" method, this book offers a great alternative. The book is designed like a college course where there are quizzes and exercises after each chapter. After you take the course, you can log on to the Waite Group's E-Zone, take an on-line test, and if you pass, you get a certificate stating that you have take a course in Visual Basic for continuing education credit. Not to shabby!

Visual Basic 5 Client/Server How-To Noel Jerke, George Szabo, David Jung, Don Kiely Whether developing network Windows applications for user, business, data services, or a combination of these tiers, Visual Basic 5 Client/Server How-To provides you with a useful framework for finding practical solutions using Microsoft's Visual Basic 5 Enterprise Edition. The book comes with over 60 examples of building components in a n-tier client/server environment. There are chapters dedicated to topics such as Remote Data Objects (RDO), object-oriented programming, client/server development tools, client/server on the Web, basic SQL server management, distributed computing, and three-tier client/server development. Visual Basic 5 Client/Server How-To meets the growing need for a practical, hands-on guide to implementing client/server applications and solving real-world development problems.

Visual Basic 5 Superbible Set David Jung, Eric Winemiller (Editor), Bill Heyman Every Visual Basic object, property, method, event, and keyword is covered in detail in the "Visual Basic 5 SuperBible Set". The two books include information on Visual Basic 5 improvements: ActiveX Controls, enumerated types, encapsulation and variable scoping, the native-code compiler, the Microsoft Transaction Server and the Microsoft Repository. The CD-ROM includes source code, examples, and projects, plus VS-OCX, VSVIEW, VSDATA, and more.

Doing Objects in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Deborah Kurata Want to learn how to design and build Visual Basic applications, without relying on a lot of complicated tricks? This complete guide lays out the framework for development, providing a sturdy foundation for learning and success. Emphasizing architecture design and approach, this book examines project requirements, using the GUIDS methodology to design the framework and UI of the application, and builds the application using the object-oriented features of Visual Basic.

Dan Appleman's Developing ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 5.0: A Guide to the Perplexed Dan Appleman Dan Appleman's unique, no-holds-barred style of writing is perfect for VB programmers who want to learn how to create ActiveX components. Cuts to the chase, covering the most essential problems. Shows how to program around the bugs with techniques from Visual Basic Masters. It explores how to avoid common pitfalls in component building.

Hardcore Visual Basic Bruce McKinney This book is best at outlining some of the new language features in Visual Basic 5.0, especially its improved support for type libraries and object-oriented programming. The heart of this book is dedicated to ways of accessing the Win32 API from within Visual Basic, which is presented in expert detail with a library of add-on functions. Sample DLL's, with libraries of VB extensions are included. The author also presents ways in which Visual Basic does and does not conform to an object-oriented programming model. Sample ActiveX controls, which use classes and the new ActiveX capabilities of VB5, are also presented. The last section, with a mix of tips and tricks for extending Visual Basic code, is also rather hit-or-miss. So is the author's humor--sometimes verging on sarcasm--which some readers will sometimes find irritating. (Once an employee of Microsoft, McKinney bravely expresses his dissatisfaction with the direction that his former company has taken with VB5.) Though this book completely ignores VB5's new enterprise features, database and Internet support, which are surely some of its most appealing enhancements, Hardcore Visual Basic does have a lot to say about developing in one of the most popular RAD tools developers have today. It can definitely ease the transition into object-oriented programming for VB developers used to the older programming style.

The Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Java : For Windows 95 & Windows Nt : Your Professional Toolkit for Object-Oriented Programming James Cooper As a Visual Basic programmer, have you ever wondered what it takes to make a Java applications or applet? After reading this book, you will be well on the read to being a Java developer in no time. This book covers the basic concepts of object-oriented programming which is needed for being a Java developer as well as walk you through a comparison of VB syntax and Java syntax. If you don't understand Java by the time you finish this book, maybe you should switch to decaff.

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