Microsoft Books

I am convinced CBI (Computer Based Instruction) is the best way to learn a new Programming Language, so when The WAITE GROUP put out Master C++, I purchased one immediately based on my previous success with learning C from the WAITE GROUP's MasterC.

They both will take you a very long way towards programming in their respective Language, and in the case of Master C++, you do not need to worry about using DOS Real Mode and NANSI.SYS anymore. Also, the software comes on 1.44MB Floppys, so it should not be a problem for most newer PC's.

Go for it!! I did, and have earned back the cost of the book thousands of times over.

This is one of the best programming books I have used. It teaches you C++ in a truly interactive way. I used it to teach myself C++ about 10 years back. Most books that are supposed to teach programming do a terrible job. The best way to teach programming is the way this book does it. It makes the teaching truly interactive thus reinforces whatever you learn at each step. You don't simply get bombarded with information. The program keeps asking you to respond to make sure that you understood the topic. You learn C++ in an interactive hands-on style, as opposed to the dry and passive style in which most people are taught.

This is excellent way to learn object oriented programming. It covers beginning, intermediate and advance programming concepts.

It is one of the only true interactive tutorials. I use it to teach at the university and college levels.

Finally a book that explains the objective and not just what the software is capable of doing!

I would highly recommend this book to any person using Office 2003 in a business environment. Gini Courter and Annette Marquis had anticipated my questions and not only provided highly informative answers but extremely useful tips and advice. Additionally, the examples will assist readers from an entry level to expert.

My bookshelf is crammed with reference guides for application software. Recently I have purchased a number of titles written by Courter and Marquis as I find their writing style so easy to read and interpret. Once again I have not been disappointed with this title.

I've only just begun reading this book, but have learned something on each and every page. I bought it at the suggestion of a colleague who attends seminars given by the authors. She raves about their knowledge and ability to easily give instructions on using software applications as they "write the manuals", and I can confirm that they "know their stuff."

This book is a great resource for both people who have used other Office versions and for those who are beginners. The explanations are great and the pictures really help you understand what is going on. My copy of this book has been borrowed numerous times by others in my office. They love the book just as much as I do.

DO NOT ORDER ANY BOOKS FROM BOOK AUTHORITY. I ORDERED THE CORE 4 FROM THEM ON SEPT. 1ST AND STILL HAVENT GOTTENT HE BOOOK AND IT IS THE 12TH. I CALLED AND THERE IS SOME ANSWERING MACHINE EVERYTIME. IT TOOK THEM ALMOST A WEEK TO PROCESS MY ORDER. CANT WAIT TO GET THE BOOKS, I HOPE BEFORE DECEMBER 31ST, 2000. LATER

I bought this core pack and the individual IIS and TCP/IP. After taking some classes, it was the perfect tool to cram with. I did not want to go though a 500-700 page book, so 180 or so pages was perfect. I passed one test a week.

An easy to read, comprehensive set of books. Just right for supplementing Microsoft Press Training Kits. I am proud to have a 100% success rate in all of my Microsoft exams, in part because of this series of books.

Im reading this book, so i would like to share my comments about it. It has good structure, a very comfortable written style and it is very oriented to the 3 Microsoft Core exams, but it could be one of your support books at job, easily. It includes a CD with tests to check your skills and adaptative test too! I guess NT 4.0 exams will be retired by dec 2000 (Microsoft says) so if you still want to take this exams, hurry!

Over the past eleven years of working with computers Microsoft has been the driving force that has turned this industry upside down at times. The number of the NT networks has grown and so has the popularity of the MCSE certification. This book gives you the jumpstart to success and career advancement.

Taking of the NT Workstation (70-073), NT Server (70-067) and the NT Server in the Enterprise (70-068) exams Brian Schwarz gives you the benefit of his expertise and brings the exams down to an understandable level for every technician of any skill level.

From the installation of NT Workstation through the Control Panel, Registry and Boot Process you'll find information that makes short work of the exam objectives. Schwarz also includes information on application Support, server management, user management, networking and client setup.

Over 700 pages of exam and on the job help is included. The book also has tables, figures, screen shots, hints and tips as well as review questions at the end of each chapter. The book makes sure you are ready for the exams and all you have to do is pass them.

Included is a cd-rom with hundreds of practice questions to help in assessing your progress. The cd also includes an adaptive test format and for an additional $79.00 you can get over 500 more questions to practice with. For less that the cost of one exam you have the ability to pass three, a value that may be hard to beat.

If you are searching for a way to quickly get your MCSE core exams behind you All-in-One MCSE NT 4 Cerification Exam Guide is the book that can help you do it! The all-in-one approach that this book uses saved me from having to spend hundreds of dollars on a variety of study aids for the three core exams -- Workstation (70-073), Server (70-067), and Server in the Enterprise (70-068). Up front the author stresses that all three exams have overlapping material covered on them. Now that I have taken and passed all of the exams, I know it's true and feel that this study guide was instrumental in helping me through the cross-over material.

The CD that comes with the book has lots of test questions for each test (be sure to look for the ones in the 'Total Seminars\Adaptive' folder on the CD). You can practice on a standard test format and with the adaptive format, which was similar to the adaptive tests I took. The practice tests have a great 'assistance window' feature that gives hints, tells you where to read more information in the book, checks and explains the answer to each question.

In short, this book is a smart purchase. Not only will it help with the exams, it will also serve as a great reference in the future.

This is all you need to obtain your certification, there is no need to purchase an additional book. But it is helpful for the times you are away from your computer. I spent 2 hours a day for 2 weeks and I aced my exam!

First of all I should note that this is an interactive CD Rom, not a book. It is however based on the Sybex text of the same title. I recommend using this product in conjunction with MCSE Windows 2000 Pro. for Dummies. I found they complimented each other rather well, as the Dummies book was based more on the Authors real world experience as opposed to the CD's facts and figures. The CD features an array of practice questions, assessment tools and of course interactive animation. The only downside to the product is that it is riddled with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and the occasional misprint. Overall, I found this product to be of great benefit. If you're looking for value for money, I strongly recommend adding this item to your shopping basket (but don't put all your eggs in the same basket, especially if you're new to MCSE).

This is a computer program. I tried doing a search through software and it would not show up. While it is great to have this under books for searches, and I agree it should be there to, but first and formost this book should show up under a software search.

What can I say about this order? It was easy to find, easy to order and it arrived quickly to my residence in excellent condition. For books, Amazon is the place to go. I would do it all over if I had too.

This book had all of the material I needed to pass with a 900+ score on the first try. Very good material.

I read through this book rather quickly as I have plenty of experience with Windows 2000 Security. It answered all of my questions and was the only reading resource I used to prepare for the exam. I found the exam questions spot on with the way the exam and nothing but case study questions! I would have liked to see more non-multiple choice questions on the practice tests but other than that this book is perfect.

Just completed my MCSE 2K3 W/2K8 Upgrade, and can honestly say that it would not have been possible without this book! Easy read with great insight!! Dave Morrisette

I just passed the 70-640 exam using this book. The authors went to great lengths to make sure that everything was covered. This book is the way to go if you are thinking about passing this test.

I am very impressed with this book and I recommended highly!

Having previously read the official Microsoft study guide for 70-640, I can tell you that this is by far the better product.

Not only does the author ensure that you retain the information by the use of modern, easy to understand language, but he provides enough exercises that someone with no previous active directory experience can still gain a working knowledge of the ins and outs of AD 2008.

Whether you are an AD novice or a seasoned professional, I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a one-stop guide for the 70-640 exam.

This is an excellent book to help you get certified and also learn Active Directory. I was impressed with the amount of labs in the book. Sybex continues to release great certification books. If you want to take the 2008 AD test, this book is a great guide.

COBOL is still the dominant mainframe production language and new applications continue to be created using it. It was therefore with a great deal of anticipation that I started Howard Hinman's rewarding series of tutorials for COBOL using Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET development environment. Fujitsu offers a trial version of .netCOBOL for download from their Web site ... and Microsoft also offers a download of the trial version of VisualStudio.NET. Prior to starting this excellent set of tutorials, I installed both the trial versions of netCOBOL and Visual Studio.NET. Although neither are necessary for you to view and benefit from the netCOBOL videos, being able to recreate Howard's examples on your machine will significantly increase your understanding of netCOBOL when you can see that the examples that he presents really do work. Too many times I have attempted to create and run application examples from "How To" texts only to have them inexplicably fail. Howard's narratives follow his step-by-step examples completely and accurately. If you have programmed in COBOL before but have not yet used either Visual Studio.NET or the .NET framework, you will be pleased to see that no previous knowledge of either is required or assumed. I found nothing to complain about while completing the nine lessons and the entire experience was pleasurable and rewarding. My operating system is Windows XP Professsional, which I installed only because the use of IIS, which neither Windows 98 or XP Home Edition includes, is recommended. The tutorials run on Windows Media Player and the video and audio presentations are excellent.

This training video is superb.

The level of detail is almost always on target. Each new section begins with a broader perspective and then narrows down to repeatable lessons that bring home the concepts. Howard almost always starts with a blank project so every detail is covered; there are no mysteries left over.

I think this is the most effective video training I have ever seen.

With this email I would like to express my opinion about your two NetCOBOL CD's called Microsoft .NET for COBOL Programmers.

First, a brief description about my professional background:

I have 15 years of COBOL programming experience on different mainframe platforms.
I have been working with Fujitsu Consulting for 5+ years.
I have taken numerous courses in VB, Java, UML, Web Development using VB, and lately several .NET events, presentations or conferences.

My next project is not going to use mainframe but Microsoft .NET, particularly ASP .NET and VB.NET.

Now about your CD's:

These were the best educational CD's I have ever taken.

Because of my knowledge of Microsoft .NET and VB, and my long experience with COBOL, your CD's were easy to follow. I noticed that NetCOBOL has a lot of similarities with VB, which made it easier to understand OO NetCOBOL.. It helped me very much to understand .NET and VB features which were not quite clear to me until now.

Your CD's are very much like a live classroom setting, and even better because you can repeat parts if you want to see or hear again. Windows Media Audio/Video Player was probably the best technology to use for these lessons. It made them dynamic and not boring. Other educational CD's, like Computer Based Training CD's, are without voice and motion and thus were too static and boring. Your CD's are very detailed and thoroughly done, showing each detail, each step, and each cursor movement.

I especially liked the fact that Howard was creating most of the projects from scratch. On other CD's projects or programs are already created and you don't see start to finish how to do it. They usually just show some parts or creating small parts from already created entity.

I also enjoyed trying to create same projects on my own in my Visual Studio .NET environment. I had small challenging problems, because of some differences between my installed production version of NetCOBOL and the one that Howard was using. But I was able to resolve them quickly and it just added value to my learning process.

I am very excited about the possibility to work in the near future on some projects using NetCOBOL.
But I am also a little cautious and ready to expect more challenges when using it in the real world. The real world COBOL programs and mainframe environments can be much more complicated than the examples presented.

Again, congratulations for excellent CD's.

This book contains many undocumented tricks. This is a book that an Access developer better has to enrich your database applications.

This is one of the easiest books to use. It sits on my desk within arms reach. The Q&A format, helps you get answers to questions you didn't know you had. This is a must for anyone developing in Access, beginners to experts

Without a doubt the best, easiest to follow guide on advanced Access 2.0 features and programming. This is the one reference I go to over and over again when trying to solve a tricky problem or find a more elegant solution. It details many undocumented and underdocumented features that make Access 2.0 the powerful tool that it is. This book gave me the quantum leap in understanding Access Basic and associated advanced appliation development tools. I recommend it to anyone building Access applications, large and small, and for power users who want to improve the look and feel of their databases

It's a fantastic program, but Microsoft has terminated this product due to the fact that all the features are now included Windows Vista. What a shame!

For anyone new to Digital Image Suite, this book is a must have. It's extremely easy to follow and fun examples keep it interesting. Well worth the $$$!

Not just how to, buy why to! Clear, concise and worth every penny.