Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Wrox
Keywords: programmer, programming, gadgets, vista, windows, professional
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2007-12-05
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 047017661X
ISBN-13: 9780470176610

As an easy-to-use application that provides information at a glance, a gadget allows users to quickly and easily obtain weather information, RSS news feeds, and much more. In Windows Vista, there are two types of gadgetsSidebar and SideShow gadgets and Microsoft MVP author Wei-Meng Lee covers both. You’ll begin by walking through the development of a simple gadget, and then each successive chapter breaks down the specific APIs that are relevant to enhancing a gadget so that you can clearly learn how a gadget is built.

Author: Meng Yue
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: empires, edges, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-06-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816644128
ISBN-13: 9780816644124

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: projects, networking, net, practical
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1590597907
ISBN-13: 9781590597903

Practical .NET 2.0 Networking Projects demonstrates some of the key networking technologies that are being made easily accessible through .NET Framework 2.0. It discusses communication between wired machines and between networks and mobile devices. The book teaches you about the technologies by walking you through sample projects in a straightforward and direct way. The book begins by discussing background theory so youll get comfortable with the layout of the .NET Framework and Compact Framework from a networking perspective. Then youll use the APIs within these frameworks to build a variety

Authors:Wei-Meng Lee, Lee Wei-Meng,
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: introduction, guide, hands, quick, running, windows
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0596804040
ISBN-13: 9780596804046

This compact book offers the quickest path for Windows users to get started with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. You get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of Windows 7’s features and built-in applications. Microsoft has learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista, and Windows 7 shows it-this new OS is much faster and more stable. With Windows 7: Up and Running, you’ll learn what’s new and what’s changed from XP and Vista, and get advice on ways to use this system

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: Rational Press
Keywords: rational, guides, blogger, google, guide
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0972688870
ISBN-13: 9780972688871

Learn how to build your own blog using Google’s free Blogger service. This book covers the basic and the not-so-basic concepts and technologies that you need to know in order to thrive in the blogging world. With this book, you will learn how to use Blogger’s Post Editor and Dashboard to create sophisticated postings that include images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can trac

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: jumpstart, basic, visual
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 059610071X
ISBN-13: 9780596100711

Okay, all you VB6 developers--time’s up. As of March 2005, Microsoft no longer supports this version of Visual Basic. And you can’t blame them. Three years ago, they introduced the .NET Framework--an elegant, powerful platform--along with the new component-based VB.NET language. But roughly five million of you decided to stick with VB6, mostly to maintain legacy Windows and COM projects. Now, with the upcoming release of VB 2005, Microsoft has several attractive reasons to upgrade that you’ll find hard to resist, including the return of some VB6 features. And we have the per

Author: Wei-Meng Lee
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: guide, pocket, framework, compact, net
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-05-04
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0596007574
ISBN-13: 9780596007577

The rapid proliferation of mobile networks for both public use and private has made connectivity-on-the-go a desirable, if not absolutely essential, condition. Nor is this mobility limited to laptops: everywhere you look, people are downloading email and other information directly to their cell phones and PDAs. For developers, this means an increased demand to create applications for mobile devices. Microsoft’s .NET Compact Frameworks provides a full suite of powerful tools to help them get the job done. The .NET Compact Framework--a scaled down version of Microsoft’s .NET Fram