Built on Microsoft’s powerful .NET Framework, C# and Visual Basic are complete equals in terms of coding power and application development possibilities. In today’s multi-platform environment, an understanding of both languages is a job requirement. The C#-Visual Basic Bilingual Dictionary unifies the languages by providing clear, functional equivalents for all syntax and grammar differences.• Complete coverage of all language keywords. Nearly 900 dictiona...

Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) add an extra level of security around your vital electronic data. Traditional passwords once provided a reasonable barrier between protected content and data thieves. But massive data breaches and published lists of the most commonly used pass codes have reduced the effectiveness of such simple locks.Time-Based One-Time Passwords: A Primer in C# introduces you to the TOTP algorithm, a great tool for enhancing existing password-only syst...

Start-to-Finish Visual C# 2015 exists to teach you how to write complete software applications using Visual C#. You’ll learn all about the C# language and .NET Framework features, the bits and pieces of syntax and logic that go into code development. But the goal is a usable software solution, and you’ll find just that in each chapter, and in the accompanying Visual Studio software projects. As the text guides you through initial design to final deployment, you’ll discover the too...

We live in interesting times. The Gospel hasn't changed, but the recent explosion of new presentations and differing emphases means that the Church needs to return to the teachings of Jesus, considered in the light of the whole counsel of God.Tim Patrick presents a clear articulation of the gospel message, drawn from the pages of the Bible, consistent with the major topics of Christian theology.Carefully engaging with the latest scholarship in cultural, bib...

Nobody learns a programming language just to brag about writing loops. Instead, languages exist so you can create great software. That’s the purpose of Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2015, to show you how to write a complete, useful, working application in Visual Basic and .NET.Each chapter introduces essential Visual Basic concepts, and shows you how to apply them by crafting a full business-level application. With this comprehensive book, you will:Unde...

2009 was a busy year for everyone but Congress, so it's no wonder that reputable news organizations overlooked headlines such as, "Tea Party protests in Washington get ugly as milk and lemon factions turn on each other." Stuffed with over 500 essential and frivolous headlines, Break the News to Me Gently will make everyone else in the unemployment line wonder what's so funny.

In The Serious Stuff, Tim Patrick presents a selection of his published essays, all drawn from a quieter time, that is, from before the era of Trump and the national mania that accompanied his entry into the presidency. Covering topics of politics, economics and the overall human condition, the writings in this collection try to understand and grapple with the complex issues that make America—and the world at large—such an interesting and at times frightening place to live and rai...

America’s Declaration of Independence is one of the most important statements on human freedom ever published. We laud Thomas Jefferson for penning the document’s flowing prose, but most of its lofty themes did not spring anew from his mind. Instead, he relied on the powerful concepts evoked by the Enlightenment, ancient Greek and Latin writings, and what he termed the “harmonizing sentiments of the day.”There is much less harmonizing in twenty-first century America. Altho...

Cast your mind back to 2008, right when the subprime mortgage crisis was pushing not just America but the entire world into recession, and presidential candidates were promising the kind of hope and change that they had for centuries. A funny time it was not, but that didn't stop Tim Patrick from publishing a humor column for near on ten years. Pulled from the news stories of the day, with a few anecdotes about Santa Claus and invading hoards of ants mixed in for good measure, the articles...

Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fills a gap in the scholarly literature. In surveying the authorised doctrinal works of the English church through the Reformation period, the progress of eschatological thinking is traced from the earliest days of change to the solidification of the formularies which remain binding across the worldwide Anglican Church today.Fresh observat...

Jesus calls believers to care for and minister to people who are away from God and share the "Good news of Jesus Christ." Often people feel awkward fulfilling this responsibility and think they must be direct and confrontational in their approach. What causes this struggle? Is it fear, Satan, lack of knowledge, insecurity or disobedience? Dr. Patrick shares a hybrid word that consolidates the words caring and confronting and provides a fresh approach to ministry, "Carefronting." "Carefront...

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks.The concise solutions and exa...