Windows 8 Apps Revealed Using HTML5 and JavaScript 
by Adam Freeman
Windows 8 contains Microsoft's revolutionary new application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices.Experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Windows 8 development. Using the open standards of HTML5 and JavaScript, he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development pr...
Price: $3.42 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Windows 8 Apps Revealed Using XAML and C#
by Adam Freeman
Windows 8 contains Microsoft's revolutionary new application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices. Using the open standards of XAML and C# he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development practices and puts you on the right course to creating innovative and elegant applications for this late...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
by Greg Shackles
It's true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework - with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It's an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the "writ...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Getting Started With Metro Style Apps
by Ben Dewey
Get a head start on building apps for Windows 8. With a series of examples, this hands-on guide takes you through the process of creating complete touch-enabled apps that respond to native sensors. Through the course of the book, you'll learn how to work with the Windows Runtime application model while building a Bing Image Search app.If you're an experienced .NET developer who wants to get up to ...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Windows PowerShell Cookbook, 3rd Edition
by Lee Holmes
How do you use Windows PowerShell to navigate the filesystem, manage files and folders, or retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to help you solve all kinds of problems. Intermediate to advanced system administrators will find more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts they can copy and use immediately....
Price: $41.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
by Lee Holmes
This portable reference to Windows PowerShell 3.0 summarizes the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the many tasks that make PowerShell so useful. If you're a busy Windows administrator, and don't have time to plow through huge books or search online, this is the ideal on-the-job tool....
Price: $11.81 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Preston Gralla
Windows 8 is quite different than previous Microsoft operating systems, but it's still eminently hackable. With this book, you'll learn how to make a variety of modifications, from speeding up boot time and disabling the Lock screen to hacking native apps and running Windows 8 on a Mac. And that's just the beginning. You'll find more than 100 standalone hacks on performance, multimedia, ...
Price: $24.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
by David K. Rensin
Run your entire corporate IT infrastructure in a cloud environment that you control completely - and do it inexpensively and securely with help from this hands-on book. All you need to get started is basic IT experience.You'll learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a private Windows domain, complete with Active Directory, enterprise email, instant messaging, IP telephony, automated managem...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Timothy Binkley-Jones, Massimo Perga, Michael Sync
Windows Phone 7 in Action is a hands-on guide to programming the WP7 platform. It zips through standard phone, text, and email controls and dives head-first into how to build great mobile apps. You'll master the hardware APIs, access web services, and learn to build location and push applications. Along the way, you'll see how to create the stunning visual effects that can separate your apps from ...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012
Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, 2nd Edition
by Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks
PowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.This book is a tutorial designed for busy administrators. Just set aside one hour a day for a month and you'll learn all the practical te...
Price: $30.54 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012