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  		• Dummies - Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies 



    Introduction

    Crystal Reports 2008 is the latest in a long and celebrated series of report writers for personal computers. Crystal Reports is by far the bestselling report writer package in the world, even though you might not know it by name. (It’s been bundled with many of the most popular applications without being acknowledged by name. For example, a version of Crystal Reports is currently bundled into Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET.) However, Crystal Reports 2008 is available as a standalone product. And if you want to produce a high-quality report quickly, Crystal Reports is the top choice to do the job.

    About This Book

    Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies is a book that gets you using Crystal Reports quickly and effectively. This book covers all the major capabilities of Crystal Reports but doesn’t bog you down in intricate detail. The objective is to give you the information you need to produce the types of reports that most people need most of the time. I also get into some out-of-the-ordinary report types that you might be called upon to generate on occasion.

    Use this book as a handy reference guide. Each chapter deals with an individual feature that you might need at one time or another. Pull out the book, read the chapter, and then do what you need to do. In many cases, step-bystep procedures walk you through commonly needed operations. You might find it worthwhile to put the book beside your computer and perform the operations while you read about them.

    Anyone who might be called upon to produce a report based on database data can profit from the information contained in this book. It’s also valuable for managers who might never produce a report but who oversee people who do.This book tells you what’s possible, what you can do easily, and what takes a little more effort to accomplish. This knowledge can help you estimate how long it should take to produce reports of various types.

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  		• Dummies - SQL AIO Desk Reference For Dummies 



    Introduction

    SQL is the internationally recognized standard language for dealing with data in relational databases. Originally developed by IBM, SQL became an international standard in 1986. The standard was updated in 1989, 1992, 1999, and 2003. It continues to evolve and gain capability. Database vendors continually update their products to incorporate the new features of the ANSI/ISO standard. (ANSI is the American National Standards Institute, and ISO is the International Organization for Standardization.)

    SQL is not a general-purpose language, such as C++ or Java. Instead, it is strictly designed to deal with data in relational databases.

    With SQL, you can
    • Create a database, including all tables and relationships
    • Fill database tables with data
    • Change the data in database tables
    • Delete data from database tables
    • Retrieve specific information from database tables
    • Grant and revoke access to database tables
    • Protect database tables from corruption due to access conflicts or user mistakes

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  		• Dummies- Office 2007 For Dummies 



    Introduction

    Microsoft Office 2007 contains loads of new features. Unfortunately, finding — let alone using — these new features can be troublesome. So, with Office 2007, Microsoft added its most important feature ever — making the programs easier to use.

    Office 2007’s biggest change is its new user interface. If you’re familiar with the more traditional pull-down menus and toolbar icons from previous editions of Microsoft Office, you’ll soon find that this latest version of Microsoft Office is designed to help you make the most out of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook so you can find the features you need and use them right away.

    Who Should Buy This Book

    This book is targeted toward two distinct groups. First, there are the people already familiar with Microsoft Office who want to bone up on the new ways that Office 2007 works. For these people, this book can serve as a handy reference to finding where Microsoft put various commands in the new Office 2007 user interface.

    Then there’s a second group of people who may not be familiar with any Microsoft Office program at all. For these people, this book can serve as a guide through word processing (Microsoft Word), number calculations (Microsoft Excel), presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint), database management (Microsoft Access), and managing your personal resources like time, appointments, and e-mail (Microsoft Outlook).

    No matter how much (or how little) you may know about Microsoft Office, this book introduces you to the most common features so you can start being productive with Office 2007 right away.

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  		• Dummies - XSLT For Dummies 



    Introduction

    Everyone seems to be talking about Extensible Markup Language (XML) these days. You know how mothers are—I can’t even visit my relatives over the holidays without my mom broaching the topic of XML at Thanksgiving dinner. Yes, XML has become quite a buzzword, but Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is the power that takes all this XML and turns it into something useful and flexible.

    XSLT is a language used to transform XML documents into something new. It can take one XML document and output that document’s information into a completely different structure or turn XML into an HTML document for viewing on the Web. XSLT isn’t a general-purpose programming language, such as Java or Visual Basic; its focus is solely on transforming XML.

    Before I get any farther along, I have to point out the “elephant in the room”—XSLT’s long-winded name. Who came up with that name anyway? I think the people responsible should be forced to say, “Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations,” aloud ten times and hope their tongues don’t fall off! XSLT’s full name may be a mouthful, but this book carves up each piece of XSLT into manageable, chewable morsels.

    XSLT can be confusing if you don’t have a solid understanding of its syntax, quirky abbreviations, and the esoteric terminology it sometimes uses. But XSLT For Dummies can help you write XSLT stylesheets and, just as important, grasp why and how transformations work. In addition, see www.dummies.com/extras/xsltfd for code examples as well as a helpful editing tool of my own creation which I call the X-Factor.

    Above all, you can use XSLT For Dummies as your guide for quickly developing the know-how of XSLT—without drowning in technical gobbledygook.


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  		• Dummies - Visual Studio 2005 AIO Desk Reference For Dummies 



    Introduction

    Introduction

    If you're like me, you were probably a little perplexed by the announcement of the new Visual Studio and .NET platforms. My immediate reaction was, "Oh, no-not another set of tools to learn." Don't get me wrong. I embraced Visual Studio .NET and, like most of you, I looked forward to the stability of Visual Studio 2003 and version 1.1 of the .NET Framework. And, probably like you, I was comfortable. A comfortable developer is a productive developer. So I put off reading about the new tools as long as possible because I figured that I would have to do nothing more than find all my usual tasks hidden on new toolbars and menus.

    Nothing could be further from the truth.

    Visual Studio 2005 is more than just the next version of Visual Studio to use with the next version of the .NET Framework. Visual Studio 2005 is Microsoft's first attempt to position Visual Studio as a tool you can use for the upstream and downstream development activities that sandwich actual code writing. For example, you can use Visual Studio to visually model the entities you want to create in code. Unlike other modeling tools that have only a one-way relationship between the model and the code generation, your code stays synchronized with the model.

    To be sure, Visual Studio still excels when it comes to writing code-whether you're writing it yourself or using one of Visual Studio designers to generate code for you. As with the designers in previous versions of Visual Studio, you drag and drop icons from a toolbox onto a design surface. Visual Studio generates the code for you in the background. You can then get up and running in using the new Visual Studio designers and code-generation features by simply reusing what you already know from using previous versions of Visual Studio.

    If you're new to Visual Studio, you're getting to the party just in time. Whether you need to write mountains of custom code or create a simple application, Visual Studio 2005 can get the job done. Furthermore, Visual Studio supports the latest approaches to software development, including object-oriented design and programming, componentized applications, and model-driven development.

    Visual Studio 2005 provides a dizzying array of editors, controls, designers, and supporting tools for developing software. Getting mired in the details of using these tools is a productivity killer. This book uses plain English to show you how to use Visual Studio 2005 to get busy building software while ignoring unnecessary details. Use this book to focus on the work that pays the bills and to

    • Improve your individual efficiency and productivity as a developer.

    • Display proficiency in selecting the right Visual Studio 2005 tools required to develop a solution.

    • Employ Visual Studio 2005 to guide and improve your individual software development practices or those of a team.

    • Navigate the many project types, editors, and designers in Visual Studio 2005.

    • Increase your confidence and professionalism in using the development environment of choice for developers of solutions based on the Microsoft platform.

    • Determine the role of Visual Studio in your software development process, whether you're working solo or on a team of 20.


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