Harold Davis

You may be passionate about photography, and own a digital SLR with perhaps more advanced equipment as well. But do the photographs you take with this powerful equipment come out as well as you'd like?

With the introduction of Visual Basic .NET, VB is now a complete object-oriented language, letting programmers access the full power of the Windows platform while enabling them to build reliable and robust web solutions.

C SHARP (pronounced C-sharp) is Microsoft's newest programming language and is a key piece of Visual Studio.NET. C SHARP is based on C++ but adds a number of features that make it the ideal language for programming Web applications on the Windows platform. Some have called it a "Java killer," because it borrows some features from the Java language.

When it comes to advertising on the web, you just can't argue with the numbers. A $7 billion market today is expected to grow to $18.9 billion by 2010. Jupiter Research also estimates that search advertising will be a larger share of the market than display advertising by 2010. These phenomenal numbers are due largely to Google, which has changed the way the world publishes content - and advertises.

Google is a funny name for a fabulous tool. You've already used it to look up all sorts of information on the Web almost instantly. Now what if you could use its amazing abilities to turbo-charge your research on a grand scale? "Building Research Tools With Google For Dummies" can help you do just that.