Real World Windows 10 Development, 2nd Edition 
by Edward Moemeka, Elizabeth Moemeka
Emphasizing XAML and C#, this book provides readers with all the tools, ideas, and inspiration to begin Windows Universal App development for Windows 10.Real World Windows 10 Development addresses developers who want to break into this market by providing detailed explanations of the various aspects of Universal App development. Written by authors with deep knowledge in Windows 10 universal app development,...
Price: $53.72 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Make a 2D Arcade Game in a Weekend: With Unity 
by Jodessiah Sumpter
Create and complete your first 2D arcade game in Unity. In Make a 2D Arcade Game in a Weekend with Unity, you will learn to create an arcade classic brick breaker game from beginning to end. You will plan the game flow, add the graphics and create the game logic using C#, then build the UX to complete your game. By the time you have finished, you will have enough knowledge to tweak the game to create more l...
Price: $33.28 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms
by Paul F. Johnson
Xamarin is an IDE used for the development of native iOS, Android, and Windows, and cross-platform mobile applications in C#. For the mobile developer, that means learning three different languages to create the same application. Even if you use the Xamarin toolchain, you still need to work with three different user interface construction sets. Xamarin is essentially a container in which developers can writ...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Code-First Development with Entity Framework
by Sergey Barskiy
Entity Framework Code-First enables developers to read and write data in a relational database system using C# or VB.NET. It is Microsoft's answer to demand for an ORM from .NET developers.This book will help you acquire the necessary skills to program your applications using Entity Framework. You will start with database configuration and learn how to write classes that define the database structure. ...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
by Matthew Leibowitz
Xamarin is used by developers to write native iOS, Android, and Windows apps with native user interfaces and share code across multiple platforms not just on mobile devices, but on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.Developing apps with Xamarin.Android allows you to use and re-use your code and your skills on different platforms, making you more productive in any development. Although it's not a write-once-r...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Unity 5 for Android Essentials
by Valera Cogut
Unity is a very popular and effective technology for creating 2D and 3D games and applications. Unity 5 is a great starting point for game developers looking to develop stunning and robust games.We begin by explaining how to set up the Android SDK on Windows and Mac OS X and configure Unity 5 settings for the Android platform. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn to implement new and improve...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Krzysztof Rakowski
With modern software systems being increasingly complex, providing a scalable communication architecture for applications in different languages is tedious. The Apache Thrift framework is the solution to this problem! It helps build efficient and easy-to-maintain services and offers a plethora of options matching your application type by supporting several popular programming languages, including C++, Java,...
Price: $13.46 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Francesco Sapio
With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it wit...
Price: $25.90 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Mohammad Rahman
C# Deconstructed answers a seemingly simply question: Just what is going on, exactly, when you run C# code on the .NET Framework?To answer this question we will dig ever deeper into the structure of the C# language and the onion-skin abstraction layers of the .NET Framework that underpins it. We'll follow the execution thread downwards, first to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) then down through ...
Price: $56.64 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Programming Windows Store Apps with C#
by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, Iris Classon
If you're a .NET developer looking to build tablet apps, this practical book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing apps for the Windows Store. You'll learn how to use Microsoft's Modern UI design language with Windows 8.1 and WinRT 8.1.1 by building a line-of-business mobile app with C# through the course of the book.To develop the app, you'll work with the same system...
Price: $6.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014