Making Applications Talk using Delphi

In this video they take a look at the Microsoft Speech API, in particular the text to speech facilities. They create a small application that can speak some text in a memo control.

Create a Calculator in PHP

In this video tutorial, learn how to create a calculaor in PHP.

Learn SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 with new book from Packt

Specialist IT publisher Packt is pleased to announce a new book which teaches SQL using Visual Studio 2005. It is a step-by-step, hands on guide into the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Interface. This book will help users understand how Business Intelligence Projects and Packages are created using the Visual Studio designer.

Sql Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a comprehensive ETL tool that made its debut with SQL Server 2005. It is an improved tool tightly integrated with the Visual Studio 2005 having all the functionalities that its forerunner DTS (Data Transformation Services) had in SQL Server 2000.

Beginners Guide to SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005 provides users with the basic knowledge needed before moving on to more advanced ETL [Extraction, Transformation, and Loading]. In each chapter users will get a background of the SSIS task that they are going to create. The book will also provide users with a comprehensive description of the many designer windows that they may encounter while working with the designer.

This book is written for beginners in the developer track who are looking to get an exposure to SQL Server Integration Services; DBA's who are testing water with the Visual Studio IDE but without a wide programming experience and SQL 2000 Data Transformation Services users who are trying to move into SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.

This book is out and is available from Packt. For more information about this book, please visit: www.packtpub.com/sql-server-integration-services-visual-studio-2005/book

Learn to master the standard ASP.NET Server Controls with new book from Packt

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on ASP.NET that covers Data Presentations Controls. This book shows users how to get the most from the ASP.NET data presentation controls to easily display and manage complex data in their web applications.

ASP.NET is a web application framework marketed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime, allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any Microsoft .NET language.

The ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls are server controls to which users can bind data to organize and display it in different ways. This book will show users how to get the most from these controls to easily display and manage complex data in their web applications. It takes users through each of the major data presentation controls in ASP.NET, gets them started and then shows how to use them in the applications for managing the data.

For more information on this book, please visit www.packtpub.com/asp-net-data-presentation-controls/book

Free eBooks from Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press has made three books available in PDF format to download for free. These books include:

• Introducing Microsoft LINQ
• Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
• Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0