This unexpurgated bible of the business world explodes the myth that profits are governed by a set of common principles and guidelines, showing how companies manipulate their reported results. Illustrated here with some of the most recent examples of corporate creativity are all the very latest schemes for tampering with taxation, flattering the fixed assets, pilfering the pension fund and many other ways of cooking the books, yet staying inside the law.

Creative Accounting: How to Make Your Profits What You Want Them to Be

Business & Money

Griffiths, Ian

Economics

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

This is a guide to the legitimate techniques which allow companies to manipulate the figures they publish in their annual report. It shows how businesses are able to beef up their balance sheets and pad out their profit and loss accounts, and describes all the dodges dreamed up by the financial minds in London and New York. Essential reading for shareholders and financial directors alike.

New Creative Accounting: How to Make Your Profits What You Want Them to Be

Accounting

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Creative Accounting

Business Press

.NET Windows Forms are a powerful technology for building a large class of applications for the Windows .NET platform. They offer nearly the same power and flexibility of classic Win32 development, but for a fraction of the effort. The programming model is lean and streamlined, and many of the tedious details that developers used to have to spend time on are now dealt with automatically by the platform..NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell offers an accelerated introduction to this next-generation of rich user interface development. The book provides an all-inclusive guide for experienced programmers using the .NET Windows Forms platform to develop Windows applications, along with a compact but remarkably complete reference to the .NET Framework Class Library (FCL) Windows Forms namespaces and types. The authors present solid coverage of the fundamental building blocks, such as Controls, Forms, Menus, and GDI+, and enough detail to help you build your own fully featured reusable visual components so you can write visual component libraries as well as standalone applications..NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell aims to provide not just the practical information and advice required to get programs working, but also to communicate the rationale behind the various parts of Windows Forms' design. The authors show how the thinking behind the framework enhances your productivity substantially. The new framework allows you to guess correctly what "the Right Way" to do things is a majority of the time, even if you've never tried what you're doing before. No more digging around in documentation for days to try to find the bit of information you need to use one particular feature.Anyone who is involved in user interface development will appreciate the ease of creation and expanded capabilities provided by .NET Windows Forms, as well as the in-depth focus and straight-forward approach this book brings. Included on CD is an add-in that will integrate the book's reference directly into the help files of Visual Studio .NET.

.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

Computers & Technology

Adams, Matthew

Networking & Cloud Computing

O'Reilly Media

Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides you, as an experienced programmer, with all the information needed to get the most out of the latest and greatest development tool from Microsoft®. It doesn't matter if you're an MFC, C++, STL, ATL, COM, Win32, Visual Basic, C#, HTML, XML, ASP.NET, database, web application, Web service, NT service, stand-alone client, or component programmer targeting Windows® or one of the Windows variants (i.e. Windows CE or the PocketPC) -- this is the book that will help you master the toolkit.Written by experienced developers and trainers John Flanders, Ian Griffiths, and Chris Sells, Mastering Visual Studio .NET begins with fundamental information about maximizing the power of Visual Studio .NET as it comes out of the box, including the following topics:
<ul>
<li>projects and solutions</li>
<li>files and the various file editors</li>
<li>debugging</li>
<li>web projects</li>
<li>database projects</li>
<li>setup projects</li>
</ul>To experience the full spectrum of functionality and extensibility, Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides you with the practical depth and detail needed to best put these features to work. The second section of the book is about extending VS.NET to suit your specific needs:<ul>
<li>integrating controls and components with VS.NET</li>
<li>the VS.NET automation object model</li>
<li>macros and add-ins</li>
<li>custom wizards</li>
<li>the Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP)</li>
</ul>If you're serious about using the VS.NET toolkit, you'll want a book of this magnitude close by. Mastering Visual Studio .NET will take you beyond what you'll read in the standard documentation by offering hints and recommendations that the authors and the community at large have found to be useful after many years of experience.

Mastering Visual Studio .NET: Getting the Most Out of the Visual Studio .NET Environment

Sells, Chris

Flanders, Jon

Web Development & Design

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (formerly known by its code name "Avalon") is a brand-new presentation framework for Windows XP and Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows client operating system. For developers, WPF is a cornucopia of new technologies, including a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language (XAML) for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls.
Programming Windows Presentation Foundation, authored by Microsoft Software Legend Chris Sells and WPF guru Ian Griffiths, is the book you need to get up to speed on WPF. By page two, you'll have written your first WPF application, and by the end of Chapter 1, "Hello WPF," you'll have completed a rapid tour of the framework and its major elements. These include the XAML markup language and the mapping of XAML markup to WinFX code; the WPF content model; layout; controls, styles, and templates; graphics and animation; and, finally, deployment.
Programming Windows Presentation Foundation features:
<ul>
<li>Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game</li>
<li>Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls</li>
<li>A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects</li>
<li>A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI</li>
<li>An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications</li>
</ul>
The next generation of Windows applications is going to blaze a trail into the unknown. WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world; it's an engine just itching to be taken for a spin. Inside, you'll find the keys to the ignition.
Updated samples and change notes for the move from the February CTP to Beta 2 are now available from the example site: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/avbook/

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

Operating Systems

With its support for dynamic programming, C# 4.0 continues to evolve as a versatile language on its own. But when C# is used with .NET Framework 4, the combination is incredibly powerful. This bestselling tutorial shows you how to build web, desktop, and rich Internet applications using C# 4.0 with .NET's database capabilities, UI framework (WPF), extensive communication services (WCF), and more.
In this sixth edition, .NET experts Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams, and Jesse Liberty cover the latest enhancements to C#, as well as the fundamentals of both the language and framework. You'll learn concurrent programming with C# 4.0, and how to use .NET tools such as the Entity Framework for easier data access, and the Silverlight platform for browser-based RIA development.
<ul>
<li>Learn C# fundamentals, such as variables, flow control, loops, and methods</li>
<li>Build complex programs with object-oriented and functional programming techniques</li>
<li>Process large collections of data with the native query features in LINQ</li>
<li>Communicate across networks with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)</li>
<li>Learn the advantages of C# 4.0's dynamic language features</li>
<li>Build interactive Windows applications with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)</li>
<li>Create rich web applications with Silverlight and ASP.NET</li>
</ul>

Programming C# 4.0

Liberty, Jesse

Programming

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major elements. WPF is the new presentation framework for Windows Vista that also works with Windows XP. It's a cornucopia of new technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language, called XAML, for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls. This second edition includes new chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with a new appendix that covers Microsoft's new WPF/E platform for delivering richer UI through standard web browsers -- much like Adobe Flash. Content from the first edition has been significantly expanded and modified. Programming WPF includes: <ul>
<li>Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game</li>
<li>Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls</li>
<li>A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects</li>
<li>A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI</li>
<li>An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications</li>
</ul>
WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world. Programming WPF helps you bring it all together.

Programming WPF: Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

C# is undeniably one of the most versatile programming languages available to engineers today. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn just how powerful the combination of C# and .NET can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 10.0 and .NET 6 fundamentals and techniques for building cloud, web, and desktop applications. Designed for experienced programmers, this book provides many code examples to help you work with the nuts and bolts of C#, such as generics, LINQ, and asynchronous programming features. You will get up to speed on .NET 6 and the latest C# 9.0 and 10.0 additions, including records, enhanced pattern matching, and the new features designed to remove "ceremony" to improve productivity. <ul> <li>Understand how .NET has changed in the most recent releases, and learn what it means for application development</li> <li>Select the most appropriate C# language features for any task</li> <li>Learn when to use the new features and when to stick with older ones</li> <li>Examine the range of functionality available in .NET's class libraries</li> <li>Learn how you can apply these class libraries to practical programming tasks</li> <li>Explore numerous small editions to .NET that improve expressiveness</li> </ul>

Programming C# 10: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications

Programming C# 12.0: Build Cloud, Web, And Desktop Applications

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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