Title: MCTS Windows Vista Client Configuration Passport (Exam 70-620) (Mike Meyer’s Certification Passport)
ISBN: 007149331X
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Date: September 6, 2007

Get on the fast track to becoming a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with this affordable, portable study tool. Inside, Microsoft Certified Trainer Brian Culp will guide you on your career path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way. With an intensive focus on only what you need to know

Title: Network+ Study Guide, 4th Edition
ISBN: 0782144063
Year: April 14, 2005

The Network+ Study Guide explains all you need to know about computer networking to pass CompTIA’s Network+ exam. The book covers the fundamentals of local area networks (LANs), the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) network model, and network operating systems (including NetWare, Windows NT, and to a lesser degree Unix variants). Readers will find

This book addresses the problems and brings solutions to the security issues of ad-hoc networks. Topics included are threat attacks and vulnerabilities, basic cryptography mechanisms, authentication, secure routing, firewalls, security policy management, and future developments. An Instructor Support FTP site is available from the Wiley editorial board.

With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is introducing a new job-skills Windows Vista certification. The MCTS: Windows Vista Client Configuration exam (70-620) serves as both a one-exam certification for the Technology Specialist certification track and the entry exam for both the IT Professional Enterprise Support and IT Professional Consumer Support certifications. This comprehensive book provides both practical guidance and exam preparation with:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need for the exam.
• Practical hands-on exercises that reinforce critical skills.
• An exclusive WinSim Vista Simulator so you can perform a number of the exercises in a simulated environment.
• Real-world scenarios that put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles.
• Challenging review questions that prepare you for exam day.
• Exam Essential, a key feature identifying critical areas you must become proficien .
• A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective.

This unique reference thoroughly documents every important setting and feature in Microsoft’s new operating system, with alphabetical listings for hundreds of commands, windows, menus, listboxes, buttons, scrollbars and other elements of Windows Vista. With this book’s simple organization, you’ll easily find any setting, tool, or feature for the task you want to accomplish. Along with a system overview that highlights major changes, and a tour of the basics such as manipulating files and getting around the interface, Windows Vista in a Nutshell offers alphabetized references for these topics:

• The User Interface: Covers the Sidebar, Aero Glass, the new Control Panel layout, and applets, as well as how to customize animated windows, the desktop, Start menu, pop-up windows on the Taskbar, and more.
• The File System, Drives, Data, and Search: Discusses working with the new Windows Explorer, Virtual Folders, searches, indexing, saved searches, metadata, and sharing.
• The Internet and Networking: Examines TCP/IP, RSS, tabbed browsing, and anti-phishing features of Internet Explorer, plus cookie handling, parental control features, and more.
• Networking and Wireless: Offers an illustrated, step-by-step guide to setting up a home network; covers the Network Center, Sync Center, Hot Spot access, wireless management, collaboration, and sharing.
• Working with Hardware: Describes how to set up, maintain, and troubleshoot hardware–including keyboards, mice, monitors, USB devices, scanners, cameras, and sound devices–and how to add, install, and troubleshoot drivers.
• Security: Includes the Security Center, Windows Defender, User Account Protection, System Protection, Network Access Protection, WiFi encryption, Windows Firewall, file encryption, and more.
• Mobility: Explains Mobility Center settings, plugging a secondary monitor into your computer, and the new “network projection” feature for making presentations.
• Multimedia: Covers Windows Photo Gallery, Media Player, Media Center, podcasting features, connecting to and synching with MP3 players, recording TV and videos, making videos with Windows Movie Maker, and burning CDs and DVDs.
• The Command Prompt: Provides commands for working with files, utilities for troubleshooting the network, and instructions on how to create your own batch files.

Appendixes include information on installation, keyboard shortcuts, common filename extensions, and more. Windows Vista in a Nutshell is your one-stop source for everything you need from Microsoft’s latest operating system.

Building Data-Bound Applications with Windows FormsIT IS ALMOST impossible to design a significant application without dealing with data in some form. If the application is a simple arcade game, the data may be a log of past scores or configuration data that lets a user customize the way the application behaves. If the application is a graphical design tool, the data may be a complex graph of objects that need to be manipulated by the application and by the user and saved when the application or document is closed. If the application is a high-end enterprise business application, the data might be an aggregation of complex relational data residing in multiple distributed databases, objects, and files used in the processing that the application performs.

To build any of these kinds of applications, you need a good way to store the data, load it, and manipulate it. If the data will be exposed directly to the user through a presentation tier application, you need intuitive ways to present the data and let the user interact with it. Most of this book is focused on just thatproviding rich data presentation and interaction for users of your Windows Forms applications. However, there is a lot more to building a good data-bound application than just the presentation aspects. This chapter not only introduces the key concepts of data binding, it also tries to paint the picture of the bigger context in which your Windows Forms application lives.