Do you know how to use Windows PowerShell to navigate the filesystem and manage files and folders? Or how to retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to
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Windows Store Apps Succinctly
Windows Store apps present a radical shift in Windows development. They place content and interaction above all else to provide users with immersive, intuitive application experiences. With Windows Store Apps Succinctly by John Garland, you'll be g
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Visual Studio 2013 brings many new improvements to the popular integrated development environment, including the long-awaited synchronized settings and notifications. With this book, you will learn how to harness these features for increased producti
Read More »Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition
Microsoft Press is pleased to offer the second edition of Kraig Brockschmidt's in-depth ebook on writing Windows Store apps using HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript on the Windows 8.1 platform. The ebook includes 20 chapters and 4 appendices. We're delighted
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Visual Studio LightSwitch may be one of the most under-utilized development tools available to professional and amateur developers alike. Designed specifically for creating data-centric business applications, LightSwitch alleviates some of the tedi
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Learn the basics of Microsoft Prism 4 and develop good programming practices in order to construct functional WPF applications. Follow along with three demonstration projects in order to put your skills to use while you learn. With author Eric Stitt
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BizTalk Server is a powerful platform that can be applied to multiple project types. It not only allows you to integrate data, use business rules engines, and monitor your business using its Business Activity Monitoring, it allows you to connect peop
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is the new version of the widely-used integrated development environment for building modern, high-quality applications for a number of platforms such as Windows, the web, the cloud, and mobile devices. In Visual Studio 2
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Visual Studio Code is a powerful tool for editing code and serves as a complete environment for end-to-end programming. Alessandro Del Sole Visual Studio Code Succinctly will guide readers to mastery of this valuable tool so that they can make full u
Read More »Azure Functions Succinctly
Azure Functions is a new service available in Microsoft Azure to help developers run code on serverless architectures. In essence, Azure Functions is about events and code - developers write some code that will be executed upon some triggering event
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