Windows PowerShell in Action, 2nd EditionWindows Powershell in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised edition of the bestselling book on PowerShell, written by Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, codesigner of the PowerShell language, and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation.
This expanded, revised, and updated Second Edition preserves the original's crystal-clear introduction to PowerShell and adds extensive coverage of v2 features such as advanced functions, modules, and remoting. It includes full chapters on these topics and also covers new language elements and operators, events, Web Services for Management, and the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment. ...
Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0With its support for multiple processor architectures, Windows Embedded CE can be adapted to a variety of devices, including Smartphones, PocketPCs, digital cameras, DVRs, VoIP, network routers, wireless projectors, robotics, data acquisition, human-machine interfaces, and more. Packed with straightforward exercises and helpful examples, this book is aimed at demonstrating how to perform various development tasks in the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 environment. You'll quickly come to view Windows Embedded CE 6.0 as an ideal operating system for developing a new generation of intelligent, multimedia, connected, and service-oriented embedded devices. ...
Professional Windows 8 ProgrammingIt is an exciting time to be a Windows developer. The arrival of Windows 8 is a complete game changer. The operating system and its development platform offer you an entirely new way to create rich, full-featured Windows-based applications. This team of authors takes you on a journey through all of the new development features of the Windows 8 platform specifically how to utilize Visual Studio 2012 and the XAML/C# languages to produce robust apps that are ready for deployment in the new Windows Store. ...
XNA Game Studio 4.0 ProgrammingGet Started Fast with XNA Game Studio 4.0 - and Build Great Games for Both Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360.
This is the industry's best reference and tutorial for all aspects of XNA Game Studio 4.0 programming on all supported platforms, from Xbox 360 to Windows Phone 7 and Windows PCs. The only game development book authored by Microsoft XNA development team members, it offers deep insider insights you won't get anywhere else - including thorough coverage of new Windows Phone APIs for mobile game development. ...
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 BibleWith SharePoint Server, an organization's information can be organized and combined in a central, Web-based application. Featuring in-depth coverage on all of SharePoint Server 2010's new features, this authoritative resource provides you with solid timesaving techniques, fast solutions, and expert advice on connecting employees and managing data easily and efficiently. You'll explore ways SharePoint Server 2010 enhances corporate intranets and portals, proposal management portals, project management portals, team and customer collaboration sites, document management systems, and enterprise application integration portals. ...
Knight's Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services 24-Hour TrainerThis book teaches you the essential elements of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) from the ground upno previous knowledge of SSIS is required. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific component of SSIS, helping you to learn just what you need to succeed. The lessons include three major components: a description of how each SSIS feature or process works, a tutorial that walks you through the process or technique, and an accompanying video lesson, all of which present you with a thorough introduction to Microsoft business intelligence tools and SSIS. ...
Windows Vista For DummiesThe thing that's made Windows For Dummies so successful is that it's packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, and much more. ...
The Book of IMAPIMAP (the Internet Message Access Protocol) allows clients to access their email on a remote server, whether from the office, a remote location, or a cell phone or other device. IMAP is powerful and flexible, but it's also complicated to set up; it's more difficult to implement than POP3 and more error-prone for both client and server.
The Book of IMAP offers a detailed introduction to IMAP and POP3, the two protocols that govern all modern mail servers and clients. You'll learn how the protocols work as well as how to install, configure, and maintain the two most popular open source mail systems, Courier and Cyrus. ...
101 Windows Phone 7 AppsWindows Phone 7 is starting to gain traction, and the opportunity is yours to sell the next killer app! 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps is a book series like no other–best-selling author and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan walks you through the process of building 101 real, robust, diverse, and marketplace-certified Silverlight applications. You not only get online access to the full source code and related assets, but the book is chock full of tips, warnings, and advice that can only come from Adam's experience of writing so many complete applications and selling them in the Windows Phone Marketplace. ...
Developing with Couchbase ServerToday's highly interactive websites pose a challenge for traditional SQL databases - the ability to scale rapidly and serve loads of concurrent users. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to build web applications on top of Couchbase Server 2.0, a NoSQL database that can handle websites and social media where hundreds of thousands of users read and write large volumes of information.
Using food recipe information as examples, this book demonstrates how to take advantage of Couchbase's document-oriented database design, and how to store and query data with various CRUD operations. Discover why Couchbase is better than SQL databases with memcached tiers for managing data from the most interactive portions of your application. ...