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Build Windows Phone applications optimized for performance and security Drill into Windows Phone 7 design and architecture—and learn best practices for building a variety of applications. Each chapter focuses on a single Windows Phone building block or feature area, and shows you how to apply it in your applications. If you’re an experienced .NET developer familiar with Microsoft Silverlight, you’ll gain deep insights into the Windows Phone platform design and API surface. Discover how to:...

A complete, hands-on guide to building Internet voice applications VoiceXML is rapidly becoming the de facto language standard for handling the transition from visual Web browsing to synthesized text-to-speech information access. This book provides Web designers, database managers, and systems designers with all the tools and templates they need to accomplish this transition in the least amount of time and at the lowest possible cost. Mark Miller walks readers step-by-step through ten real world...

The opening section of XML/HTML/XHTML Magic is a crash course on the skills readers should have in order to attempt the projects in this book. Subsequent chapters instruct readers on how to use the markup languages and cutting-edge technologies to create a variety of web sites and address design and development concerns. Many books teach mark-up languages in isolation from each other, when in practice they are used together. XML, HTML, XHTML Magic showcases how real people solve problems and add...

Businesses have come to realize that information resources and technologies are key corporate assets and decisions on these matters need to be made at the highest level in an enterprise (including public sector and not-for-profit organizations). As a result, when new standards come along with the potential for expanding collaborative e-business relationships that open new opportunities, improve cash flow, and reduce costs, business people need to know about them. That is the purpose of the new b...

The professional programmer’s Deitel ® guide to smartphone and tablet app development using Android 4.3 and 4.4, the Eclipse-based Android Development Tools and the new Android Studio   Billions of apps have been downloaded from Google Play™! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great Android apps quickly and getting them published on Google Play™. The book uses an app-driven approach—each new technology is discussed in the context of seven fully tested Android apps,...

Delve into the features, principles, and pillars of the ASP.NET MVC framework - deftly guided by Web development luminary Dino Esposito. ASP.NET MVC forces developers to think in terms of distinct components - model, view, controller - that make it easier to manage application complexity. Plunge into the framework's internal mechanics and gain a practical, what-why-how perspective behind each ASP.NET MVC building block. You'll understand how and when to use this programming model as an alternati...

If you are a Perl programmer looking to explore Perl's XML capabilities or an XML developer with a basic understanding of Perl, this book will provide you with all the tools required for XML processing with Perl. XML and Perl teaches you to create portable, powerful, and extensible applications when you use XML and Perl together. You'll also learn to customize your XML processing facilities to accomplish unique tasks. Authors Mark Riehl and Ilya Sterin, who have written Perl XML modules and adm...

The XML explosion hardly needs any introduction-it's everywhere and there just seems to be no end to what can be done with XML. While writing to the W3C standards, and keeping up with the pace for corporate implementation, you, the programmer or web developer, will need a comprehensive guide to get you started and show you what XML and its related technologies can do. A thorough guide is imperative to success because you will need to know and understand the full scope of XML from day one in orde...

Sams Teach Yourself XML is an easy-to-use tutorial that breaks down the task of learning XML into 21 focused lessons. Readers learn through clear explanations of concepts, structured step-by-step tasks, and abundant code samples. This book covers all aspects of using XML to publish a wide range of content on the Web.

“XML Schema 1.1 has gone from strong data typing to positively stalwart—so powerful it can enforce database level constraints and business rules, so your data transfer code won’t have to. This book covers the 1.1 changes—and more—in its 500 revisions to Priscilla Walmsley’s 10-year best-selling classic. It’s the guide you need to navigate XML Schema’s complexity—and master its power!” —Charles F. Goldfarb   For Ten Years the World’s Favorite Guide to XML Schema—Now Extensively Revised for...

This book will show Java developers how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to rapidly create rich web-based applications using their existing skills. It will cover the full development cycle, from setting up your development environment, to building the application, then deploying it to the web server. The entire core GWT library will be discussed, with details and examples on how it can be extended. The Web is experiencing a new and exciting growth, with a strong emphasis on rich web-ba...

With more than 600 million iOS devices sold, Apple's booming mobile platform provides a immense and continuously growing app market for developers. And with each update to the iOS SDK, Apple offers the richest set of additional developer tools. iOS 7.0 is no exception. iOS programming expert Richard Warren shows you how to use these powerful tools to begin writing the next generation of iOS apps. You will hone your development skills by creating a complete, full-featured mobile applicat...

Learn XML skills in a meaning and memorable way with extensive coverage of DTDs, namespaces, schemas, Cascading Style Sheets, XSLT, and programming with the XML DOM using real-world business examples.

-- Important technology -- XML is the backbone of the Web services movement, and due to emerging standards, the need for current and accurate information is vital-- Unique approach -- our book provides cohesive discussions of real-world implementations -- information which is crucial for today's developers-- Comprehensive coverage -- addresses essential technologies within the XML arena, including DOM, XML Schemas, RELAX NG, XSLT, SOAP, and wireless XML-- Includes case studies that illustrate XM...

Together, InfoPath 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 make it possible to create end-to-end solutions that combine powerful forms, enterprise-scale workflow, and access to key business data. Now, building on the valuable content from their previous InfoPath book, three Microsoft experts offer a complete introduction to building the forms that drive these solutions.   Designing Forms for SharePoint and InfoPath combines deep knowledge of InfoPath, new insights into SharePoint de...

The simple API for XML (SAX) is the leading API for event-driven XML processing. A comprehensive tutorial and reference, The Book of SAX includes everything you need to use SAX 2.0. Learn how to develop a fully functioning SAX application as well as a complete, non-validating XML 1.0 parser that implements the SAX 2.0 API. Numerous examples show how to use SAX to solve XML parsing problems that are impossible to address with tree-based technologies.

"This book contains everything you need to know to create awesome, life-altering applications. . . . I pride myself on knowing a lot about design, but when reading this book, I probably didn't encounter a single page that didn't offer at least one interesting idea, new concept, or clever design technique. It's also written in a way that prevents you from putting it down. . . . You're in for a treat." -From the Foreword by LUKAS MATHIS, author of ignorethecode.net Transform Your Ideas into Intui...