Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours 
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 ...
Price: $21.48 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2011
Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes 
by Brad Miser
Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical information designed to get you up and running quickly and easily. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you'll learn everything you need to know to effectively use Mac OS X Lion. Each compact lesson zeros in on a specific aspect of the Mac operating system explained through concise and informative descriptions along ...
Price: $3.98 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2011
by Rebecca M. Riordan
Based on the principles of cognitive science and instructional design, Fluent Visual Basic, part of the Fluent Learning series, is a true tutorial that will help you build effective working models for understanding a large and complex subject: developing .NET Framework applications in Visual Basic.Most introductory books just talk at you and give you "exercises" that have more to do with taking di...
Price: $3.98 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2011
MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511)
by Matthew A. Stoecker
Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-511, the required exam for the MCTS certification: Windows Application Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most - including in-d...
Price: $12.00 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Step by Step
by Elena Kosinska, Chris Leeds
Experience learning made easy - and quickly teach yourself how to design rich user interfaces (UI) for Microsoft Silverlight - based applications using Expression Blend 4. With Step by Step, you set the pace - building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!...
Price: $22.04 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4
by Dino Esposito
Completely reengineered for ASP.NET 4 - this definitive guide deftly illuminates the core architecture and programming features of ASP.NET 4 in a single, pragmatic volume. Web development expert Dino Esposito provides essential, architectural-level guidance, along with the in-depth technical insights designed to take you - and your solutions - to the next level. The book covers Dynamic Data, AJAX, Microsoft...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio
by Zain Naboulsi, Sara Ford
Take a detailed look into Visual Studio - and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity includes a comprehensive collection of tips and shortcuts for working with the code editor, visual designers, searches, debugger, and other features in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. You'll g...
Price: $3.34 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
by Tony Northrup, J.C. Mackin
Exam Prep GuideFully updated for Windows Server 2008 R2! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-642-and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you've learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to ...
Price: $10.00 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++
by Colin Campbell, Ade Miller
Your CPU meter shows a problem. One core is running at 100 percent, but all the other cores are idle. Your application is CPU-bound, but you are using only a fraction of the computing power of your multicore system. Is there a way to get better performance?The answer, in a nutshell, is parallel programming. Where you once would have written the kind of sequential code that is familiar to all programmers, yo...
Price: $77.47 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide
by Dominic Betts, Federico Boerr, Scott Densmore, Jose Gallardo Salazar, Alex Homer
This guide describes a scenario around a fictitious company named Tailspin that has decided to include Windows Phone 7 as a client device for their existing cloud-based application. Their Windows Azure-based application named Surveys is described in detail in a previous book in this series, DevelopingApplications for the Cloud.After reading this book, you will be familiar with how to design and implement ap...
Price: $3.72 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011