This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.NET. Rather than loading you down with theory, the new edition of "ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook" gives you more than 150 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform. Organized to help you find the topic and specific recipe you need quickly and easily, this book is more than just a handy compilation of cut-and-paste C# and VB.NET code."ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook" also offers clear explanations of how and why each code solution works, warns you of potential pitfalls, and cites sources of additional information so you can learn to adapt the book's problem-solving techniques to different situations. This collection of timesaving recipes covers vital topics including: connecting to data; retrieving and managing data; transforming and analyzing data; modifying data; binding data to .NET user interfaces; optimizing .NET data access; enumerating and maintaining database objects; and, maintaining database integrity. Ideal for ADO.N ET programmers at all levels, from the relatively inexperienced to the most sophisticated, this new edition covers the significant 3.5 upgrade, including new programming tools, such as LINQ, that are key to working with WinFS applications. "ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook" offers a painless way for those of you who prefer to learn by doing when it comes to expanding your skills and productivity.

Few .NET developers have the luxury of unlimited code testing once their application is complete, and rushing through the testing process is both problematic and stressful. The open source NUnit framework provides an excellent and efficient way to test and improve .NET code as it's written, saving hundreds of QA hours and headaches.

NUnit is one of the most mature and widely-used .NET open source projects even Microsoft uses it internally. NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. Written entirely in C#, NUnit takes advantage of many .NET language features, such as custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities. It automates unit testing and reduces the effort required to frequently test code while developing it. NUint is invaluable for .NET developers in test-driven development under agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) as well as for developers who use for unit testing for software quality assurance. Unfortunately, some of those valuable hours saved by using NUnit can be wasted trying to master this powerful but under-documented framework

Proof that good things come in small packages, the "NUnit Pocket Reference" is a complete reference to NUnit, filling in the blanks left by the existing documentation and online discussion. It offers developers everything they need to know to install, configure, and use NUnit; the NUnit user interface; and a reference to the NUnit framework classes in a slim but well-organized package. This handy little book even offers practical, real world NUnit examples. And with the "NUnit Pocket Reference," IT managers will know to expect when they implement unit testing in their projects. It is the only book you'll need on this popular and practical new open source framework.

Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a must read for anyone interested in ending war and fostering peace and justice.