AppNee believes that many wise ideas and thoughts in Programming Pearls can still make many programmers benefit a lot even after decades of years. In Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition, Jon Bentley thoroughly updated most of material in the first edition, and rewrote all the original example programs.

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is a far more flexible and powerful way to develop desktop apps than the outdated Windows Forms technique. As a authoritative programming guide to Microsoft's newer Windows desktop programming technique, Applications = Code + Markup covers the principle of core technology, concept, skill and development practice in Microsoft WPF.

As the famous English writer E. M. Forster's master novel work, A Passage to India was created based on his real experience of two trips in India in the early twentieth century. The book was also known as the last traditional realism classic in the 20th century of Britain. Because it is clear that the traditional English novels is enveloped under the huge shadow of Charles Dickens all the time.

As a ground-breaking and innovative technology on the Microsoft .NET software development platform, LINQ (Language-Integrated Query) set up an efficient bridge between object-oriented programming languages and various data sources, which greatly reduces the complexity of software development.

More and more critical applications have been migrated to websites now. Meanwhile, the security of these apps have become a major challenge to all kinds of institutions. Know yourself as well as the enemy, so that you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat. Similarly, only by understanding the exploitable vulnerabilities exist in web applications and the attack methods adopted by web attackers, we can more effectively ensure the safety of our web apps.