Windows Vista Inside Out

Windows Vista Inside Out
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Vista Inside Out

Great Refererence

A Great Follow-Up to Windows XP Inside Out

Great Tool

Advantage: Comes with eBook version

Windows Vista Inside Out
Ed Bott , Carl Siechert , and Craig Stinson
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0735622701

Book Description

Written by the authors of the immensely popular Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, this book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using the latest version of the Microsoft Windows operating systemall in concise, fast-answer format. Dig into the work-ready tools and resources that help you take your Windows Vista experience to the next level. Get the answers you need to use the new features of Windows Vista, including the sidebar and gadgets, and the Windows slideshow. Youll also discover how to use new features in Microsoft Windows Media Player and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. Get up-to-date information on how to configure and customize your desktop, how to use new security-enhanced features, and more.

Customer Reviews:

Vista Inside Out.......2007-10-05

Windows Vista Inside Out
I am in my early 70s and can still remember that a farmer whom I worked for at the time would not buy a tractor, because it would be less cost effective than the horses he used. I found this book very useful, practical and easy to understand. It tells you more than you will ever want to know, however, where is the glossary? With the overwhelming quantity of acronyms, though well explained it would from time to time be handy to be able to just look the meaning up in a list rather then to have to back track in the text. Great book nevertheless.

Great Refererence.......2007-09-26

New Vista users here is a great Reference and help with the little problems..A bit bulky but covers it all.

A Great Follow-Up to Windows XP Inside Out.......2007-09-12

If you enjoyed Windows XP Inside Out, you'll also enjoy this book. Its full of helpful hints.

If you're a beginner, I wouldn't suggest this book. If you're an advanced user you probably will learn a few new things. But if you're an intermediate user this is right up your alley.

Great Tool.......2007-09-10

Perfect Condition. CD is a great help too. Great tool for intermediate users.

Advantage: Comes with eBook version.......2007-08-28

Vista isn't very hard to use, but there are little things that I need to look up on occasion. I love the fact that I can install the eBook on my computer so I always have it with me. (I use a TabletPC and carry it to home and work and on trips.) Having all this information available to me at all times is great. People ask me a question (I do tech support), I search for the answer, tell them what they need to know, and they think I know everything. Having it on the computer makes all the difference to me.

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2007 Edition (Windows on the World Complete Wine Course)

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Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2007 Edition (Windows on the World Complete Wine Course)
Kevin Zraly
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is simply the bestselling wine book in the United States—it’s a classic. And this new edition contains an additional 16 wonderful pages, including a featured supplement about the olfactory system and how it deepens our enjoyment of wine. Written in a question-and-answer format, the section is coauthored with Wendy Dubit, an expert on the subject. Plus, this unequaled volume retains all the invaluable information, fabulous illustrations, and gorgeous styling of the 20th anniversary edition. Wine lovers will still thrill to Zraly’s inimitable, irreverent style. As always, he answers every question about wine; offers the most up-to-date recommendations; provides advice on buying wine in stores and on the Internet; takes you on a country-by-country, region-by-region ratings tour of the latest vintages; and starts you on your way to becoming a wine connoisseur. Abundant full-color labels and maps complete the enticing picture. More current, more informative, more concise and precise than ever, this remains the wine guide against which all others are judged.

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Great Tech Help
Simple Upgrade
For the computer novice
Microsoft Windows Vista Step by Step
Microsoft Windows Vista Step By Step

Microsoft Windows Vista Step by Step
Joan Preppernau
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
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ASIN: 0735622698

Book Description

The smart way to learn the latest version of Microsoft Windowsone step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with Windows Vista, including how to navigate the new user interface and how to use the new search features for finding anything on your desktop. You will learn how to manage files and folders to simplify your work, easily add or remove programs, hook up printers and other devices, and set up your Internet connection, email, and instant messaging. You will also discover how to use security-enhanced features to help protect your PC, as well as how to share your computer while still helping keep personal settings and files private.

Customer Reviews:

Great Tech Help.......2007-09-02

This is a good book and very helpful. Windows Vista is almost like learning the computer all over again and this book was very helpful

Simple Upgrade.......2007-08-06

I am well pleased with Step by Step. Moving from Windows 98 to Vista is a traumatic experience for me, I needed some help and found it.

For the computer novice.......2007-08-05

This book might be well suited to someone who has little or no experience with previous Microsoft OS. For the rest I recommend David Pogue's book if you are not of a mind to search through every Vista book on the market...

Microsoft Windows Vista Step by Step.......2007-06-11

This is a very practical book. Sometimes the authors say things like "set up your prefernces" , which to me is not helpful. Since I am new to computer's I don't have any! I wish they would give their preferences. Just tell me what to do! Most of the book is good, because there is a lot of hands-on excercises. The practices help to cement the ideas. One thing about the Vista OS though is you will find a help button in each window you open. This book tells you where thoughs windows are. It's easy to follow. Buy this book! It's worth it. I didn't know there was so many things to learn until I got it.

Microsoft Windows Vista Step By Step.......2007-06-10

about 100 pages loose from my book, because not enough to much guide in my book. The new Microsoft Windows Vista Step By Step need to replacemwnt my book please.

David W. McFadden

Essential Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

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Spare me the vocabulary
Simply the best insider book
Indeed the MOST ESSENTIAL book on WF
If you want to more than just use activities to build workflows...
Excellent discussion of WF architecture

Essential Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Dharma Shukla , and Bob Schmidt
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0321399838

Book Description

âSomething big is about to happenâ¦.â
–From the Foreword by Don Box, Architect, Microsoft Corporation

âIf I were writing a Workflow book, this is what I would have written. The material is very well presented with code examples and explanations. Also, I love how the authors discuss the underlying architecture, enabling me to get a really deep understanding of the technology to efficiently design and build my own projects.â

–Jeffrey Richter (http://Wintellect.com)

âExplicit support for workflows in a lightweight framework is a major contribution. Many tough problems traditionally faced by application authors, such as state management in the presence of long-running activities (think weeks or months!), can be addressed systematically by adopting

a workflow approach. Dharma Shukla and Bob Schmidt present the workflow technology under and made accessible by the new workflow foundation in the .NET 3.0 framework, and they do so in an approachable and yet authoritative way that is truly enjoyable.â

–Clemens Szyperski, software architect, Microsoft Corporation

âThe Windows Workflow technology combines declarative programming and state machines in a very rich and powerful way, one that is bound to have a profound influence on the way we program in the coming years. In the style of the classic Essential COM by Don Box, Dharma and Bob have done a great job making this technology accessible to any developer already versed in C#, VB, and the .NET Framework, and who wants to achieve declarative enlightenment. Don’t miss out.â

–Joe Duffy, program manager, Common Language Runtime (CLR) team, Microsoft Corporation

âI think WF should and will be used as the main application model for web service applications. Developers working on web services will want to learn about this technology from this book; it comes straight from the source and explains the technology well and in depth.â

–Krzysztof Cwalina, program manager, Microsoft Corporation

âThis book provides an enlightening exploration of Windows Workflow Foundation for both the novice and the veteran alike.â

–Nate Talbert, software design engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a groundbreaking approach to writing and executing programs. WF programs are assembled out of resumable program statements called activities, which provide encapsulation of both domainspecific logic and control flow patterns reflective of real-world processes.

In Essential Windows Workflow Foundation, two WF lead architects–Dharma Shukla and Bob Schmidt–offer an under-the-hood look at the technology, explaining the why and not just the how of WF’s key concepts and architecture. Serious WF developers seeking details about how to effectively utilize and extend the framework by writing activities will find cogent explanations and answers here. With simple and illustrative examples, the authors demonstrate exactly how to leverage WF’s extensible programming model to craft domain-specific programs. Drawing on their unique vantage point in designing and developing WF, Shukla and Schmidt deliver authoritative coverage of

The core concepts and ideas that form the heart of WF’s programming model
The execution model for activities, with details of the activity automaton, bookmarking, scheduling, and the threading model of the WF runtime
Advanced execution concepts, including activity execution contexts, transactions, persistence points, passivation, fault handling, cancellation, compensation, and synchronization
Hosting the WF runtime in applications
The activity component model, with details of validation, compilation, serialization, and visualization
Databinding, XAML, dependency properties, and WF program metadata
Declarative conditions and rules, activity designers, and designer hosting
Custom control flow patterns ranging from simple sequencing and iteration to more complex graphs and state machines
Dynamic editing of running WF program instances

Essential Windows Workflow Foundation is the definitive resource for developers seeking an in-depth understanding of this novel technology.

Dharma Shukla is an architect at Microsoft working on next-generation programming models. A founding member of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) team, Dharma played a key role in defining the architecture of WF. Bob Schmidt is a senior program manager at Microsoft working on next-generation programming models. Since 2003, his primary focus has been on the design of WF. Both authors have been involved with the WF project since its inception, and have been responsible for specifying, designing, and developing large portions of the technology.

Contents

About the Authors xiii

Foreword xv

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

1 Deconstructing WF 1

2 WF Programs 33

3 Activity Execution 53

4 Advanced Activity Execution 111

5 Applications 179

6 Transactions 241

7 Advanced Authoring 259

8 Miscellanea 325

Appendix A Activity Automaton 395

Appendix B Control Flow Patterns 397

Index 435

Customer Reviews:

Spare me the vocabulary.......2007-09-24

Look, there are enough buzzwords that are ill-used in our "profession domain".

Passivate? Pedagogical? Episodic execution? Thread and process agility?

Enough. Enough. Enough.

When a book starts as oddly as this one did, the editors are using the wrong ruler to measure what valuable content should look like.

Essential (absolutely necessary; indispensable) information should not be "decorated" with such a mish-mash of terms stolen from other disciplines or made up for the sake of being unique.

Simply the best insider book.......2007-04-29

This is one of the best books I have read. It shows the real internal workings of WF and does so vividly. This is not a work-by-example book but a book everyone must own to learn the fundamentals. I didn't want to get spoiled by the Visual Designer in DevStudio simply because I wanted to know what's going on behind the curtain and this book definitely hit the spot. I would buy other books (probably Scott Allen's) for practical usages/learning by examples.

Indeed the MOST ESSENTIAL book on WF.......2007-04-27

Just as Kernighan-Ritchie wrote the book about "C" which laid the foundation to that language, this book is the "starting point" to learn the new paradigm of Workflow Programming. This book examines the WF "concepts" in a manner that build in steps, one concept at a time.

Most books try to give "everything" in "how to implement applications" fashion. But unless one gets a "conceptual understanding" of what the technology is, and why it is like that, it would be hard to "think with" that technology. One can "copy" other examples for rapid implementations, but one cannot "invent" solutions that apply to their own domain.

By reading this book one can really "invent" solutions to "any" domain one works in. Very well written book. I suspect Don Box played an important role in guiding the style of this book. Other subjects should also have such "essential" books available.

If you want to more than just use activities to build workflows..........2007-04-10

...then get this book. This is an excellent book by the creators of WF. I had been working on WF for a long time, not just by using activities, but building them. However, I never was really confident because while I understood the concepts of activitiy, designer, validator, persistence, I was unaware of many other concepts like what is the threading model (should I make my data structures used in my custom activities thread safe?), scheduler, xoml vs xaml, etc. I used to hit these concepts while designing activities and some runtime extensions and since I didn't completely know, I did not enjoy my work as much. Then this book is released. This book is exactly what I was looking for. Concisely written, but loaded in information. More importantly, it is comprehensive. As I read from chapter to chapter, all my fears about the concepts I only half-understood were replaced by the power of a holistic knowledge of WF I was gaining. There are other books out there which tell you what a CAG activity is and how to use it, but when you are done with that kind of stuff and you don't know where to look further, read this book. With zero exaggeration, I can say that after I read the book, my confidence increased so much that I look forward to work everyday more than ever before.

Excellent discussion of WF architecture.......2007-03-23

This book is one of the best written technical books I've read in the last several years. It is not a book to teach WF programming so much as a discussion of the architectural foundations of WF. The greatest benefit I gained from this book was that, even when I can't use WF itself, I can use some of the patterns that make WF possible. If you're an architect looking to gain a clear understanding of what WF is, and from that, what it can do, there is no better book than this one.

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 (Expert's Voice in .Net)

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A great book
Better than attending a hands on training course
Best Workflow book available
Clear and Thorough
Very Thorough

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 (Expert's Voice in .Net)
Bruce Bukovics
Manufacturer: Apress
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Book Description

Windows Workflow Foundation is a ground-breaking addition to the core of the .NET Framework that allows you to orchestrate human and system interactions as a series of workflows that can be easily mapped, analyzed, adjusted, and implemented.

As business problems become more complex, the need for a workflow-based solution has never been more evident. WF provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems. As a developer, you focus on developing the business logic for individual workflow tasks. The runtime handles the execution of those tasks after they have been composed into a workflow.

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 provides you with the skills you need to incorporate WF in your applications. This book gets you up to speed with Windows Workflow Foundation quickly and comprehensively. The practical aspects of using WF are covered in a lively tutorial style with each workflow concept illustrated in C#. This book also includes detailed coverage of how to customize your workflows and access them in a variety of ways and situations so you can maximize the advantages of this technology.

Customer Reviews:

A great book.......2007-09-18

This is a well written book that I have read in recent times. If you are .net developer and looking for the nuts of bolts of WF, you need this book. I have read only 3 chapters and already very impressed with the author. The author explains in DETAIL everything about workflow. In fact the author also explains about unit testing a workflow. Great Book!

Better than attending a hands on training course.......2007-07-06

This is by far the best book in the market on WF for a programmer. If you do its programming exercises it easily replaces a 5-day hands on training course. Now that is a great ROI. The book is very easy to read and understand.

I would recommend the Essential Workflow Foundation by Dharma Shukla as a companion book. This one gives an insight into what .NET 3.0 WF does in the background to make it all happen. Also if you were to try to use WF without Visual Studio, Dharma Shukla book would be the right one to pick as it does not use VS at all.

Best Workflow book available.......2007-06-25

I read through all of the available books on WF and this was definitely the best. Pro WF has a lot of practical information missing in a lot of other books. In particular, the sections on rules, exception handling, and web service hosting are worth the price of the book all by themselves. If you want to know how, and why, to use WF in your real every-day programming then this is the book for you.

Clear and Thorough.......2007-06-20

I am a colleague of the author's and recently got the opportunity to investigate using Workflow Foundation for a business application. Not knowing much about this component of .NET 3.0 and having only read some introductory material about it on MSDN, I found this book to be an excellent place to start learning it for real.

This book is very clear and thorough and works through the subject in an organized and methodical way. The fact that it's written by a single author is a benefit, since it gives a more coherent treatment of the subject than some technical books written by several (or even many) people.

The text includes solid examples that don't go overboard with irrelevant tangents. I was also impressed that the author tackled some of the more difficult aspects of this technology, like hosting the workflow designer in your own applications.

I would recommend this to anybody who wants to get a deeper understanding of Workflow Foundation.

Very Thorough.......2007-06-13

I've read a few books so far on WF and I find the MSDN documentation to lack details, and most other books to also not go into enough details. Pro WF answered all my questions where the other books did not and now that I have a good foundation in WF, I still go back to it to look up details of various topics.

Windows on the World Economy with Economic Applications

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a global study

Windows on the World Economy with Economic Applications
Kenneth A Reinert
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

This book is for users wanting to understand the impact of international economics. Therefore, the economic theory is low-level, but it is very applied with an emphasis on managerial or public policy decision-making. For instance, the book gives heavier treatment to international production and international development than most international economics books.

Customer Reviews:

a global study.......2007-07-28

Reinert explains the current workings of the global economy. Explaining the basic precepts of international trade. Within the context of the postwar trade agreements. The rise of the newly industrialising countries of East Asia (Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) is keyed to the massive amounts of export-driven manufactured goods that those countries produced.

Related to this are ideas like the enabling of foreign direct investment, which can act as a capital supplier and a spur to future growth of a country that gets the investment.

The book also delves into economic theory and accounting frameworks needed to quantify international trade. Given the global scope of the book, currencies and exchange rates between those currencies are discussed. Hence the idea of purchasing power parity, as a different way to compare countries, instead of purely by exchange rates. The Big Mac index, introduced by the Economist magazine, is given as a vivid instantiator of PPP.

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) (Pro Developer)

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Disappointed!! (No CD/DVD)
This is my manifesto for SharePoint *Development* (as opposed to customization)
A hands on book
By far, mandatory for all Sharepoint developers...
This book fills in the gaps in the SDK

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) (Pro Developer)
Ted Pattison , and Daniel Larson
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ASIN: 0735623201

Product Description

Get deep insights into Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with this hands-on guide. This book focuses on developing Windows SharePoint Services applications for the enterprise with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML). A Windows SharePoint Services expert provides technical explanations of the platform architecture and how the technology works, including concise information on key topics including Web Parts, pages, workflow, and security. With this bottom-up view of the platform architecture and task-oriented guidance, Microsoft Windows developers will learn how to embrace Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as a first-class development platform. Experienced developers will learn how to build robust, feature-rich applications, including enterprise content management (ECM) systems. In addition, this guide includes C# and XML code samples to help developers get up and running as quickly as possible.

Delivers concise information on Web Parts, pages, workflow, security, and other key topics

Provides deep architectural insights, practical advice, and solutions for Windows developers

Features extensive code samples in Visual C# and XML; assumes prior knowledge of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Customer Reviews:

Disappointed!! (No CD/DVD).......2007-10-07

The major thing that disappoints me is that there is no CD/DVD with the book. There are lots of code snippets (rather than complete listings) and it is hard to understand if you can't see everything. An E-book version would also be nice (like every other MS Press book).

Other than that, it is excellent.

This is my manifesto for SharePoint *Development* (as opposed to customization).......2007-09-24

In what I think of as my "pre-Pattison" era I was beating my head against SharePoint. The projects I'd inherited seemed unmanageable and deployment was a nightmare. For the project I was going to be starting from scratch, I was frantically coming up with excuses to not use SharePoint, although there was external pressure to use it.

Ted's book explains the key difference between SharePoint customization and SharePoint development, and focuses on best practices for the later. After reading it, I had a game plan for future development using SharePoint and also for bringing my two legacy apps under control.

A hands on book .......2007-07-23

I agree with the other reviewers this is a book that is worth reading if you are working with Sharepoint development...

By far, mandatory for all Sharepoint developers..........2007-07-23

I had a chance to take Ted's class on the subject matter of this book and found him to be extremely knowledgeable, insightful and practical with regard to developing for Sharepoint. Taking the class and having his book really took me to the next level understanding how WSS 3.0 work and can be extended. This book is a must read from cover to cover if you are new or want to get more acquainted with Sharepoint Services development.

This book fills in the gaps in the SDK.......2007-07-11

Finally, there is a book that provides all the basic information that a developer needs to get started with WSS 3.0. Almost all that information that a developer would expect to find in the SDK documentation is finally available. If this trend continues, it seems that in the future, there will be no SDK documentation, only books to purchase, if you needed documentation.

Very well written, like all books in the 'Inside...' series!

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step (Pro Step By Step Developer)

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Great book for WWF
Where's the beef?
Perfect Introduction to WF
love the step by step books
Excellent!

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step (Pro Step By Step Developer)
Kenn Scribner
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
ProductGroup: Book
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Book Description

Get hands-on, step-by-step guidance for using Windows Workflow Foundation to create process-managed applications for Microsoft Windows. This reference offers practical instruction and a CD with practice files and code samples.

Customer Reviews:

Great book for WWF.......2007-08-11

This is a really great book that explains in good detail the workings of WWF. The only knock on this book is that some of the examples did not work.

Where's the beef?.......2007-08-05

I did not enjoy this book - or at least the half that I got through. I don't understand why the author decided to go off on so many code intensive forrays.

The first chapter looked promising.. we began right away with some designing of a simple activity. However the next chapter suddently delved into .. logging all your WF activities to a SQL DB. All the code for this being written out in excruciating longhand (connection strings, connection, data adapters, commands, parameters all written out by hand). How about dropping in a dataset and be done with it?

The next chapter was all about stopping and starting instances of the WF runtime. The whole time I'm wondering "Do I need to do this?". Turns out - no you don't.

Regardless I pushed on - but the author seemed to have zero interest in covering what I would assume most people want to do with WF : build activities aimed at solving business problems.

I would not recommend this book for those who want to "hit the ground running" and becoming proficient in the least amount of time. This book seems to cover a lot more detail than most developers need. Just my opinion of course...

Perfect Introduction to WF.......2007-07-10

I hope that when I get around to writing a tech book someday that it comes out as good as WFF Step by Step! I'm very excited about this technology (and WCF) and this book has been a tremendous help so far and I'm not even half way through it. Best $44 I've spent in a long time (even better deal if you buy it online!).

I feel confident that I can tackle my first big workflow project after reading this book and completing all the examples. Kenn has also provided updated examples on his web site!

If you need to get up to speed on WF fast, use this book!

love the step by step books.......2007-06-28

I've always enjoyed the step by step books, because they force me to sit down and work through the technology. I read through other books and tend to use them more as reference books. Of course the different step by step books have different authors and some are better than others.

I'm happy to say that this one is great. Especially important to me since the subject matter is critical for projects that I have on the table. Mr. Scribner takes you through the fundamentals and into a detailed analysis of most of the provided activities before delving into more advanced subjects such as workflow types other than sequential. The book wraps up with using workflow on the client and server ends of web services.

The steps are laid out well except for some cumbersome back referencing to previous chapters in some of the earlier chapters. At some times the author gets a little wordy and monotonous with steps (e.g. step 1 of most of the samples). He could have been straight to the point and just have said open the project such and such.

The samples are where this book really shines. All of the code is available on the CD that can be installed (although I would have much preferred to copy the data from the CD). The author provides two solution directories for most of the samples in the book. The first one is a partial solution that includes all of the work not relevant to workflow or what you've already learned (e.g. you won't have to drudgingly build your service interfaces for each sample). The second one is a complete solution already done that you can reference. The samples are interesting and relevant. You can tell the author had fun with them.

There are some subjects namely rules, declaritive workflows, and session state with web services that could have been expounded on, but I suppose to be fair the purpose of a step by step book is not to go into too much depth on things. That being said, there are some external references, but not enough and a summary of them at the back of the book would be nice.

Excellent!.......2007-05-18

It is an excellent introductory book about Workflow Foundation.

In addition to step by step tutorials, the author uses real world examples to illustrate concepts. I also like the writing style.

After I read the book, I realize that Windows Workflow Foundation is a powerful programming tool that will change the way how the software is constructed. Can not wait to use Workflow in the next project!

Windows Vista(TM) Plain & Simple (Bpg-Plain & Simple)

Average customer rating:

Easy to use !
"Windows VISTA, Plain & Simple"
GOOD FOR ME
Excellent coverage
Vista manual

Windows Vista(TM) Plain & Simple (Bpg-Plain & Simple)
Jerry Joyce , and Marianne Moon
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Windows Vista: The Missing Manual

ASIN: 073562268X

Book Description

Get the fast answersin full colorthat make learning the new Windows Vista operating system plain and simple! Windows Vista helps you more effectively use your PCwith simple ways to find and use your information, enjoy your digital media, and connect to technologies and people. This no-nonsense guide helps you learn the easy way to navigate this new operating system with numbered steps and concise, straightforward language that show the most expedient ways to learn a new skill or solve a problem. Youll discover how to perform everyday tasks and answer your own questions quicklylearning the essentials for customizing your desktop, setting up a home network, managing digital media, publishing files to the Web, and more. With Plain Simple, you dont have to wade through superfluous details.

Customer Reviews:

Easy to use !.......2007-10-01

This book is simple enough for the beginner to use. The step by step instruction make it easy for Vista challenged people like me.

"Windows VISTA, Plain & Simple".......2007-09-29

I found the book "Vista, Plain & Simple" to be excellent..
top-notch writers, who answered all my questions about this new Windows program.

GOOD FOR ME.......2007-09-22

Anything I keep and use works for me.This covers most subjects for moving from XP to VISTA, I actually enjoy using it when I dred refering to books for my answers. BUY IT!

Excellent coverage.......2007-09-22

Understanding Windows Vista was made a lot easier with the excellent coverage in this book.

Vista manual.......2007-09-18

This is the first Microsoft operating system manual that I have ever had in which I found something, non-trivial, that I was looking in for an answer. I am impressed.

Average customer rating:

Worth the money
Not a technical manual
Would recommend this book
Very Practical,Funny,To the Point.
PC Annoyances

PC Annoyances, Second Edition
Steve Bass
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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PC Annoyances

ASIN: 0596008821

Book Description

In every PC user's life, there's a point when desperate measures must be taken. Some push their PC off a pier or chuck it into a landfill. Others turn their former computing ally into a planter box. But don't give up on your PC yet--help is at hand. This easy to read, accessible book from PC World expert Steve Bass covers the waterfront of PC gripes and gremlins, with fixes for everything from Windows glitches to browsers that won't browse. Each fix is served up in bite-sized portions for quick reading--and even quicker fixing. A revised version of its best-selling predecessor, the 2nd edition offers 50 additional pages and over 120 new fixed annoyances. This reader-friendly book tackles problems related to a wide-ranging number of topics:

Windows--King of Annoyances! learn how to kick Windows in the rear, overcome glitches, take charge of the interface, live with the dreaded Service Pack 2
Hardware--wake up your DSL, tame your notebook, silence your PC's fan, work wonders with your scanner, and save paper
Email--from Outlook to Eudora! Defeat spam, avoid mailing list hassles, send big files, manage folders
Microsoft Office--learn workarounds for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that help you back up the unbackable and automate data entry
Internet--shake up IE, stop Flash, outsmart defaults, control Favorites, add the Google toolbar to Netscape

Plus, you get access to more than one hundred utilities that will help you squash bugs, enhance your email, untangle a system snarl, and much more. If your PC has ever annoyed you (do we see several billion raised hands?), PC Annoyances is for you. With the flip of a page or two, you can fix that faux pas and have your PC purring again.

Customer Reviews:

Worth the money.......2007-02-25

I was so impressed by this book when I checked it out from the library I realized I had to have a copy of my own for those times when problems crop up that drive me toward the deep end. This book does what it claims. Though it won't answer all of your problems (what book would), it's easy to understand and can provide simple solutions to what seem like complex problems. It also gives the reader various references and free helpful programs on-line. I highly recommend it.

Not a technical manual.......2007-02-03

OK for the nontechnical XP users. Most of these hints have been published elsewhere but it is a nice collection.

Would recommend this book.......2006-08-15

I love the format Steve Bass uses while writing
about computer annoyances. Many of the tips and solutions
can save you frustrations that are always there even in
a minor way because you may not know how to fix them.

Very Practical,Funny,To the Point........2006-07-17

After slogging through books on W2KPro/XPPro that are painful to read and no help unless your running 100+ PC's this book was a welcome relief in it's smarts,humor,and direct approach to fixing many of the challenges presented by the above mentioned OS's. Having one of my usual sleepless nights I started tallying up all the money I spent trying to keep MS software running,protected from hackers,bots,spyware,virii worms and it's own predisposition to fail and I realize that with an entire industry built around sloppy software as the norm and a gov't asleep at the antitrust wheel we're not likely to see a real improvement any time soon. When you hear words like regulation stifles innovation reach down and make sure you still have your wallet because it's about to be plundered. It's always about the money. If I had to spend another $25 to have this book included in the box that MS/OS came in then I would've saved hundreds on books that did'nt meet my needs and priceless amounts of lost time.

PC Annoyances.......2006-02-28

This is not the usual boring computer book. Just the opposite.
I'm reading it the second time with a felt tip marker. After reading a chapter I go to my computer, explore, and make changes. I've learned more reading this book than any other computer book I've purchased. And it's written so the average computer user like me can understand.

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