This book gives you a head start on creating 'Metro'-style apps for the approaching release of Windows 8 - Learn how to use Windows RT.

Apply your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and start building your own Windows 8 apps now.

This free book shows you how to minimize these costs by using the testing infrastructure of Visual Studio 2012.

With this book, you'll be guided through obtaining a developer license, to managing your application's life cycle and storage, all the way to submitting your app to the Windows Store.

You’ll learn how to integrate Web API into both Web Forms and MVC projects, including security and testing. Discover how easy it is to use JSON, jQuery, and Ajax effectively for a better user experience.

This book provides a quick tour of the different parts of the LightSwitch development environment so that you can judge whether Visual Studio LightSwitch would be an ideal tool to add to your belt.

This book is intended to increase the reader's understanding of the relationship between x86 machine code, x86 Assembly Language, and the C Programming Language.

A book on programming Windows applications using assembly. The text contains an introduction to console applications and files, a basic Win32 GUI program, popup windows and ownership, child windows, messages, mouse, graphics, etc.

You’ll find hands-on tutorials on fundamentals, common tasks, and administrative jobs that you can apply whether you’re on the client or server version of Windows.

This book provides everything necessary to get up to speed on this powerful and flexible shell scripting language for Microsoft Windows.

This book shows how to build scripts and utilities to automate system tasks or create powerful system management tools to handle the day-to-day tasks that drive a Windows administrator's life.

This book lays out the concepts and the programming tasks so that you can use this powerful Microsoft RPC API.

This book teaches you how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework, using powerful architecture patterns, and modern web technologies such as HTML 5 and jQuery.

This book provides everything you need to get started with Prism and to use it to create flexible, maintainable Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight applications.

This book introduces you to the most important and frequently used patterns of parallel programming and provides executable code samples for them, using PPL.

This free book will show you how to transition from previous versions of Microsoft® Visual Studio, to Visual Studio 2010.

Inside this book, you will find dozens of practical, defensive programming techniques that will improve the quality of your T-SQL code and increase its resilience and robustness.

Walks you through functional blocks of the Enterprise Library, which include data access, caching, cryptography, exception handling, logging, security, and validation.

This guide shows you how to get the most out of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to help improve the effectiveness of your team-based software development.

Readers are introduced to the relevant aspects of Java, the POSIX Pthreads library, and the Windows Win32 Applications Programming Interface.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the core topics for Visual C++ 6 programming.

This book presents a comprehensive review of modern techniques used to transform raw source code into finished product, based on Visual Studio 2008.

This is a book on naming conventions, best coding practices and patterns written by the industry expert Steven Sartain.

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