Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed 
by Ashish Ghoda
The Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern is held in high regard by many developers as an excellent way of creating sophisticated modern applications. It's clear seperation of presentation and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed, scalability and code reuse in applications with a complex UI. These strengths have found it favor with WPF and Silverlight developers. It is now...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Beginning Windows 8 Data Development
by Vinodh Kumar
This book introduces novice developers to a range of data access strategies for storing and retreiving data both locally and remotely. It provides you with a range of fully working data access solutions and the insight you need to know when, and how, to apply each of the techniques to best advantage.Focussing specifically on how the Windows 8 app developer can work with the Windows Runtime (often called Win...
Price: $27.93 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Real World Windows 8 Development
by Samidip Basu
Real World Windows 8 Development is a developer's handbook - an essential guide to building complete, end-user ready Windows 8 applications on the XAML and C# programming stack from start to finish. Starting with Windows 8 basics and walking through practical aspects of building your Windows 8 application, you'll find step-by-step instructions and practical advice that will leave you with a modern...
Price: $4.90 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Jose Guay Paz
By now you'll have heard of ASP.NET MVC. This exciting new approach to developing ASP.NET web applications has taken the development world by storm over the last few years. Now a mature technology suitable for mainstream use, its adoption has exploded in recent times.Until recently, ASP.NET MVC was regarded as an advanced technology only suitable for experienced developers with a strong knowledge of cl...
Price: $30.76 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development
by Adam Dawes
Creating fun, sophisticated games for Windows devices large or small has never been easier! With masses of example code and fully working games for you to download and run straight away Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development is your ideal first step into modern games development.This book gives you everything you need to realize your dreams and produce fantastic games that will run on all Windows 8 ...
Price: $31.05 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Lori Lalonde, David R. Totzke
Windows Phone 8 Recipes is a problem-solution based guide to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Recipes are grouped according to features of the platform and ways of interacting with the device. Solutions are given in C# and XAML, so you can take your existing .NET skills and apply them to this exciting new venture.The book starts by guiding you through the setup of your development environment, including links ...
Price: $49.09 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Ray Rischpater, Carmen Au
Geospatial mapping applications have become hugely popular in recent years. With smart-phone and tablet numbers snow-balling this trend looks set to continue well into the future. Indeed, it is true to say that in today's mobile world location-aware apps are becoming the norm rather than the exception. In Microsoft Mapping author Ray Rischpater showcases Microsoft's Bing Maps API and demonstrates ...
Price: $52.28 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Releasing HTML5 Games for Windows 8
by Jesse Freeman
Windows 8 presents an incredible opportunity for distributing and monetizing HTML5 games, and this guide shows how you can profit from it. You'll learn everything you need to know about porting your original web-based JavaScript game to the new "touch-first" version of Windows, as well as several options for selling your game in Windows Store.Windows 8 is a big leap forward for develo...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
The Art of Unit Testing, 2nd Edition
by Roy Osherove
You know you should be unit testing, so why aren't you doing it? If you're new to unit testing, if you find unit testing tedious, or if you're just not getting enough payoff for the effort you put into it, keep reading.The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step by step from writing your first simple unit tests to building complete test sets that are maintainable, readable, and tr...
Price: $8.44 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by G. Ann Campbell, Patroklos P. Papapetrou, Olivier Gaudin
SonarQube is a powerful open source tool for continuous inspection, a process that makes code quality analysis and reporting an integral part of the development lifecycle. Its unique dashboards, rule-based defect analysis, and tight build integration result in improved code quality without disruption to developer workflow. It supports many languages, including Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, and JavaScript.SonarQube...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013