Design patterns let programmers avoid re-inventing the wheel. The original book (Design Patterns by the "Gang of Four": Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides) was phenomenally successful. When the programmer faces a particular problem, all they have to do is to look up the correct matching design pattern and use it to implement the solution. In this tutorial VTC author Steve Holzner guides you through the most popular and useful design patterns, so you can begin incorporating them into your own code. (more…)

In Visual Training Company's tutorial Microsoft Visual Basic for Excel, Pravah Pugh helps you get started by going over macros, the VBA programming language, and the VBA development environment. He then teaches you about the use and creation of functions for Visual Basic for Excel and how to access and save code. You will also learn about cell referencing, labels, names and much more. To get started, simply click one of the topics below. (more…)

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SQL Server 2005 is a comprehensive database software platform providing enterprise-class data management and integrated business intelligence (BI) tools. The SQL Server 2005 database engine provides more secure, reliable storage for a relational database format or XML. By supporting both a relational database format and XML, the SQL Server 2005 database engine provides the flexibility necessary to support the way you work. It also enables you to build and manage highly available, well-performing database software applications that you and your people can use to take your business to the next level.

The SQL Server 2005 data engine lies at the core of this enterprise data management solution. In addition to providing support for relational databases or XML, SQL Server 2005 combines the best in analysis, reporting, integration, and notification. This enables your team to build and deploy cost-effective BI solutions with which they can drive data into every corner of your business through scorecards, dashboards, Web services, and mobile devices.

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Implementing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004
The Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server is truly a versatile and important component in any network. With the improvements ISA Server 2004 has over previous versions, trainer Jeremy Cioara explains that, among other benefits, “the firewall is light years ahead of any firewall that only handles port forwarding.”

The modifications Microsoft has made to ISA Server since the 2000 version have changed almost everything. Some of the biggest improvements include:
- deep-packet inspection of application-layer data,
- multiple-network support,
- unique network policies for each interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall and
- additional VPN security including the VPN Quarantine functionality, which allows you to isolate non-compliant VPN clients.
- Plus, there have been huge improvements to the management interface and monitoring functions.

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Brief overview : SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft”s latest release of their enterprise database solution product. SQL Server 2005 is the result of five years of research, development and collection of suggestions and wish lists from database administrators and developers. Microsoft continues to drive the enterprise database market with the added features and capabilities of this new product. Microsoft Certified Database Administrator and Certified Trainer Mark Long covers the basics of SQL Server 2005 administration in this course.

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