.net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is a cool book that gets you up to speed fast on your own game projects. Balanced and complete, .net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is aimed toward beginners and advanced programmers alike. The first book to cover the Managed DirectX 9.0 interfaces, from Direct3D to DirectPlay, .net Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 is an indispensable guide for anybody interested in exciting new Microsoft technologies for creating great games.

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This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.

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If you work at all with Internet-facing solutions, you know that the lack of an identity metasystem is a critical vulnerability in the design. Various consortiums have worked to define a system of identity--a platform-agnostic way of communicating and validating claims of identity. If you work with identity solutions or structures, you will find Beginning Information Cards and CardSpace: From Novice to Professional essential to understanding and successfully implementing CardSpace solutions.

The target audience for this title are current .NET 1.1 developers and future .NET 2.0 developers who need to put Extreme Programming (XP) into practice. While other Extreme Programming books are usually theoretical in approach, this book takes the reader through the practical application of Extreme Programming with code-level solutions. It shows the reader how to apply the XP principles in a real-world environment. It provides an in depth look at each of the XP practices and shows the reader how each of these practices fits into the project development life-cycle. By showing developers how to work with .NET 1.1 today, and .NET 2.0 tomorrow, this book offers a long-term vision for Extreme Programming with Microsoft technologies. For more information, visit: www.extremeprogramming.org.

Themes are a way to allow programmers to establish "skinnable" websites that can be programmatically adjusted for various purposes. A webmaster may decide that there should be a certain look and feel for site administrators while registered users see a different look and the remaining users see still a different view when they visit the site. This could include, among other things, completely different controls, graphics, and/or color schemes for each group. Users may want to set up a theme specifically targeted to meet the needs of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that removes all images and background colors and leaves the pages in stark contrast for that particular user group. Or maybe the developer just wants to let people choose the way they experience the site each time they visit. Themes are very powerful and this book aims to highlight the potential of ASP.NET 2.0 Themes as well as their relationship to master pages and CSS in web applications today and illustrate many of the facets that can and should be included in theme development. While not specifically a designer's book, an overview of good web design and even a cheater's guide to PhotoShop will be included with the intent of taking the average ASP.NET Programmer and given them the knowledge to be "Renaissance Men and Women" of web design

From generating Office documents programmatically to integrating document-based workflows with Line of Business applications or web sites, you'll see how to get the most out of your SharePoint environment. In order to do this, you'll examine how to integrate Microsoft's information worker products such as SQL Server 2005 and Office 2007 into broader solutions for the enterprise. Throughout the book, the following key areas are covered in-depth: portal services in SharePoint, search, document and content management, and workflow integration. The expert authors also provide you with scenarios to build out these applications and leverage the platform services along with custom code to create new solutions. In addition, key examples demonstrate how SharePoint and Office work together to offer powerful capabilities and how Office can be an integral part of the development platform.

The Only Windows Server Resource You Need. The single most comprehensive and understandable book on the subject, Mastering Windows Server 2003 continues author Mark Minasi’s award-winning tradition of clear and comprehensive coverage of Microsoft’s Windows Server products. This book shows you how to plan, configure and install your network, keep it running its best, and fix it if it breaks. And you still get all the coverage you need for the Windows 2000 Server installations that remain part of your environment.