Microsoft Corporation eBooks

The Microsoft Reference Architecture for Commerce, Version 2.0 consists of code and documentation designed to accelerate the development of e-commerce solutions for medium to large businesses. This volume includes an e-commerce application, which contains reusable and customizable components and was designed to address many of the general business requirements that are common to e-commerce solutions.It also provides complete documentation, including a thorough explanation of the application components and the decisions behind the code design and development process. Also: instructions for using, modifying, and testing the code, and procedures for setting up the development environment and installing the application....

Drawing on the experience of Microsoft consultants working in the field, as well as external organizations that have migrated from UNIX to Microsoft Windows, this guide offers practical, prescriptive guidance on the issues you are likely to face when porting existing UNIX applications to the Windows operating system environment. Senior IT decision makers, network managers, and operations managers will get real-world guidance and best practices on planning and implementation issues to understand the different methods through which migration or co-existence can be accomplished. Also detailing changes required at the coding level, this guide is a valuable resource for both UNIX programmers and Windows programmers. All PATTERNS PRACTICES guides are revi...

It's the ideal Internet and networking reference for home, office, school, or wherever the latest technology takes you!With today's fast pace of innovation in networking and on the Internet, new technical terms appear constantly. This handy pocket-sized dictionary -- a subset of the terms found in the popular, recently updated Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition -- promises to keep people up-to-date on the latest terms they need to know. It includes more than 3,000 of the most important terms about the Internet and networking, and it also provides appendixes of Internet country codes and domains, common file extensions, and Instant Messaging emoticons and acronyms. It's the ideal Internet and networking reference for home, office, school, or...

This Microsoft training kit offers comprehensive preparation for exam 70-176, Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0--one of the core credit exams. The kit is modular and self-paced, with hands-on exercises that build and measure competency in critical skill areas. The entire course is featured on CD-ROM....