Windows Store App Essentials: Give Your App the Windows Difference
by Greg Leonardo
Give your app the Windows Store difference. Windows Store App Essentials provides you with all of the practical information that you need to make sure that your app takes advantage of all of the unique features of the Windows Store environment. Starting with practical advice on app design and working within Microsoft's Modern UI guidelines, the book carries on to cover making the most of Live Tiles, integrating with the Charms Bar, and using Live Connect to enable a seamless user experience. Win...
From ASP.NET MVC to DDD, developers have been taking a fresh look at their coding practices and moving to new, cleaner, designs that bring power and elegance to their code. The CQRS and Event Sourcing patterns have become more and more popular over the last two years. Their focus on simplicity and rejection of complex layered architectures has struck a chord with developers increasingly embracing new patterns and practices to revolutionise the way they code. From ASP.NET MVC to DDD developers ha...
Teach yourself Visual C# 2005 fundamentals-one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating programs and components in C#! Discover how to: Work in the Visual Studio 2005 development environment Declare variables, call methods, and create operators Construct statements to selectively or repeatedly run your code Catch and handle exception errors Use object-oriented concepts to declare classes and objects Write destructors to clean u...
Unlock AD DS Using C# .Net: Develop the Key to Unlocking Active Directory and Unleash Its Full Potential
by Edward Willemsen
ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is C# on the web done right. No more fiddling around with Viewstate, IsPostBack(), and drag-and-drop coding. Microsoft has addressed the shortcomings of ASP.NET and created a framework that goes toe-to-toe with other popular web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. Programming in C# is fun again! This book takes a test-first approach to the main features of ASP.NET MVC. You'll get hands-on experience building and deploying a time-management web application from start to finish. From...
This is one of THE books that advanced .NET developers will be able to study so they can understand how they will tackle the major projects they will be asked to build in .NET in the coming years.SharpDevelop is a top-flight demonstration and case study of advanced application development using .NET today. At a time when .NET is being "proved" around the world, this book offers working knowledge of developing real-world .NET applications. Readers will learn advanced .NET programming techniques b...
Programming Home Projects with Visual Basic Express
by Philip Conrod
Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Sams Teach Yourself)
by Jonathan Harbour
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build high performance games for Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft’s free XNA 4.0 toolset. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master all the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish highly playable games for any WP7 device. You’ll learn how to integrate game logic, touch screen user input, bitmaps, animations, audio, physics effects, GPS location services, and more. Each lesson builds on what you...
Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (Unleashed)
by Adam Nathan
Windows 8 enables you to build stunning applications that integrate with each other, services, and Windows itself like never before. And you can sell them in the Windows Store for tablets such as Surface, laptops, and traditional desktop PCs! Now, world-renowned Microsoft programming guru Adam Nathan shows you exactly how to write first-class apps for this radically new version of Windows. Clear, accessible, and intensely practical, this guide teaches through concise code examples, fully c...
NET Enterprise Development in C#
by Matthew Reynolds and Karli Watson
When you need answers for using C#5.0, this tightly focused and practical book tells you exactly what you need to know - without long introductions or bloated samples. Succinct and easy to browse, C# 5.0 Pocket Reference is ideal as quick reference - or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#. Written by the authors of the acclaimed C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, this book doesn't skimp on detail, but covers the entire C# 5.0 language, includin...
Windows 8 Xaml Primer: Your Essential Guide to Windows 8 Development (Expert's Voice in Xaml)
by Jesse Liberty
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, an Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
by Joyce Farrell
Using engaging examples and a clear, straightforward approach, Microsoft Visual C# 2008: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, Third Edition, gives beginning programmers an updated guide to developing programs in the C# programming language. By focusing on C#, this book provides readers with a strong background knowledge of structured programming, method calling, and parameter passing, all of which are important concepts easily transferable to other programming languages. The Third Edi...
Coding Notebook C .Net Blank Lined Journal Gift For Programmer
by Now Paper Goods Publishing
If you are a developer with experience in C# and are just getting into mobile development, this is the book for you. If you have experience with desktop applications or the Web, this book will give you a head start on cross-platform development.
A Beginner's Guide to 2D Shooter Games with Unity
by Patrick Felicia
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...