Free Book - Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

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Chapter 1: Microsoft .NET Framework Primer for the Visual Basic Developer

Develop more productive, secure, reliable, and deployable Visual Basic programs with innovations available in the .NET Framework.

Chapter 2: Language Enhancements for Visual Basic 2005

Simplify and clarify your source code using the new keywords in the Visual Basic language. In addition, learn about the added functionality in the My namespace that was not available in previous releases of the .NET Framework.

Chapter 3: Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Environment

The Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment includes a number of new and improved productivity features. The IDE has also been redesigned with a view toward providing developers with more direct access to the .NET Framework components, such as the new settings and resource architecture.

Chapter 4: Building Datacentric Applications

Explore four applications to see how Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 enhance productivity and make connecting to data sources from your application much easier than with previous development tools.

Chapter 5: Constructing User Interfaces

New controls and improvements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 allow you to create professional-looking applications that provide a better end-user experience and reduce your coding effort.

Chapter 6: Building Web Applications

Visual Studio 2005 builds on the innovation introduced in Visual Studio .NET and makes Web development easier than ever before for both experienced and novice Web developers.

Chapter 7: Microsoft .NET Framework Enhancements

Examine new features and how to use them to reduce your coding effort in Visual Basic 2005 while increasing your application's usability, security, and maintainability.

Chapter 8: Deploying Applications

Focus on how to use the new ClickOnce deployment technology and review how to build Microsoft Windows Installer packages by using the setup project templates and tools included in Visual Studio 2005. You'll also learn how to choose the right method for deploying applications.

Introduction to Networking Technologies

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Mathematical Tools for Physics:

This text is in PDF format, and is my attempt to provide a less expensive alternative to some of the printed books currently available for this course. If you find any mistakes or any parts that are unclear or any topics that you think I should not have omitted, please tell me.

I intend this for the undergraduate level, providing a one-semester bridge between some of the introductory math courses and the physics courses in which we expect to use the mathematics. This is the course typically called Mathematical Methods in Physics. The text itself has been expanded so that it now contains far more than a one semester course.

The text is available as a single file to download and save, or as the separate chapters. The advantage of the single file is that the internal hyperlinks will take you anywhere in the book, while the internal links in the separate chapters are confined to that chapter. The single file contains a full index (also linked).

In the body of the text, the equation references are linked, so that clicking on the reference will take you to that equation. To return to your original position, either click on the left arrow (Previous View) at the top (or sometimes bottom), or use a keyboard shortcut   [ Command<-- on Mac,   Alt<-- on Windows,   Control<-- on Linux ]. The table of contents and the index are also linked. There are also a few links to web sites within the text.

If you want to read this on the screen there are two formats. The first is for a smaller screen and is formatted so that the page is wider than it is tall. The format for a large monitor is designed with small margins, so that you can more easily use a two-page display.

If you choose to print the book and have a printer that does two-sided copy, or if you upload it to a commercial printer, there is a version with identical content, but with margins shifted for such printing and binding. It is 487 pages.

1 Basic Stuff	10 Partial Differential Equations
2 Infinite Series	11 Numerical Analysis
3 Complex Algebra	12 Tensors
4 Ordinary Differential Equations	13 Vector Calculus II
5 Fourier Series	14 Complex Variables
6 Vector Spaces	15 Fourier Analysis
7 Operators and Matrices	16 Calculus of Variations
8 Multivariable Calculus	17 Densities, Distributions
9 Vector Calculus I

Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry

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Introduction to Model Theory, by David Marker, 15-35
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Classical Model Theory of Fields, by Lou van den Dries, 37-52
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Model Theory of Differential Fields, by David Marker, 53-63
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A Survey on the Model Theory of Difference Fields, by Zoé Chatzidakis, 65-96
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Notes on o-Minimality and Variations, by Dugald Macpherson, 97-130
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Stability Theory and its Variants, by Bradd Hart, 131-149
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Subanalytic Geometry, by Edward Bierstone and Pierre D. Milman, 151-172
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Arithmetic and Geometric Applications of Quantifier Elimination for Valued Fields, by Jan Denef, 173-198
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Abelian Varieties and the Mordell-Lang Conjecture, by Barry Mazur, 199-227
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Unbounding the Future:
the Nanotechnology Revolution:

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stewart Brand
Preface
Authors' Note
Chapter 1 Looking Forward
Chapter 2 The Molecular World
Chapter 3 Bottom-Up Technology
Chapter 4 Paths, Pioneers, and Progress
Chapter 5 The Threshold of Nanotechnology
Chapter 6 Working with Nanotechnology
Chapter 7 The Spiral of Capability
Chapter 8 Providing the Basics, and More
Chapter 9 Restoring the Environment
Chapter 10 Nanomedicine
Chapter 11 Limits and Downsides
Chapter 12 Safety, Accidents, and Abuse
Chapter 13 Policy and Prospects
Afterword: Taking Action
Further Reading
Technical Bibliography
Glossary
Acknowledgments

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