Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015
Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015

Author: Tim Leung

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2015-12-24

Total Pages: 859

ISBN-13: 1484207661

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In this fully updated second edition, award-winning author Tim Leung explains how to build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, web, and mobile devices in just a few clicks—with no code required—using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015. This book explains the basics of Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015 plus new features and key advanced topics that every Microsoft developer needs to know to create modern data services and build clients that can run on multiple devices. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 is a rapid application deployment tool that simplifies and shortens the time needed to develop business applications. The basics are very easily understood but more advanced users will hunger for more. How do you design complex layouts? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application against malicious use? Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 answers these questions and more as author Tim Leung—winner of a Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Award for his LightSwitch expertise—covers this breakthrough product in detail. For serious developers building, enhancing, and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch makes sense because they can benefit from the elegance, convenience, and cost savings afforded by rapid application development before going beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface to include the extra value and depth of coding expertise that their clients value. What You Will Learn: Build Desktop and HTML5 business applications for PC or mobile devices Create compelling user interfaces that can support multiple languages Fine tune your application with C#, VB.NET, JQuery, JavaScript, and CSS code Integrate with mapping, GPS, and location services Provide email notification, and Microsoft Office compatible data exports Enable users to carry out advanced searches on data Build screen controls that you can share with other developers

Professional Visual Studio 2015
Professional Visual Studio 2015

Author: Bruce Johnson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 1320

ISBN-13: 1119068053

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In-depth coverage of the major Visual Studio 2015 revamp Professional Visual Studio 2015 is the leading pro's guide to new and upgraded features of Microsoft Visual Studio. With a unique IDE-centric approach and deep dive into the software's many nooks and crannies, this book will bring you up to speed quickly on everything Visual Studio 2015 has to offer. Whether you're new to Visual Studio or just upgrading, you'll appreciate in-depth, professional explanation of updates, features, and support. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. The Visual Studios 2015 release fixes a number of issues that deterred many professionals from adopting VS 2013. Old products have been retooled, and new features are aimed at productivity enhancement and fixes to UI. Fully aligned with VS 2015, this guide walks you through the changes and helps you incorporate helpful new features into the way you work. Discover new options for themes, displays, and settings Learn the new workflow and shortcuts to ASP.NET code Master improved debugging and unit testing support capabilities Exploit changes to Windows STORE apps, phone apps, Azure, and SharePoint

Practical Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
Practical Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

Author: Peter Ritchie

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1484223136

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Learn the details of the most highly recommended practices of software development using the latest version of Visual Studio 2015. Recommended practices are grouped by development phase and explained in far more detail than the typical tips and tricks compilations. This book also contains detailed coverage of recognized patterns and practices used to create software in a timely manner with expected quality in the context of using specific Visual Studio 2015 features. Creating software is part defined process and part empirical process. While there is no single “best” process to employ in all development scenarios, MVP author Peter Ritchie helps readers navigate the complexity of development options and decide which techniques and Visual Studio 2015 features to use based on the needs of their particular project. Readers will learn practices such as those related to working in teams, design and architecture, refactoring, source code control workflows, unit testing, performance testing, coding practices, use of common patterns, code analysis, IDE extensions, and more. What You Will Learn Use patterns and practices within Visual Studio Implement practices of software creation Work in teams Develop workflows for software projects Who This Book Is For Beginning and intermediate software developers and architects

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed

Author: Alessandro Del Sole

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2012-02-06

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13: 0132684179

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Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed Alessandro Del Sole Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch–from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques. You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces. Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation Protect your applications with authentication and authorization Fine tune your code for scalability and performance Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle Efficiently debug LightSwitch code–and create code that’s easier to debug Category: Microsoft Programming Covers: LightSwitch User Level: Intermediate—Advanced ON THE WEB: Download all examples and source code presented in this book as they are available from informit.com/title/9780672335532

Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Author: Alessandro Del Sole

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2015-07-25

Total Pages: 3734

ISBN-13: 0134196708

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Using Visual Basic 2015, developers can build cutting-edge applications that run practically anywhere: on Windows desktops, new Windows 10 devices, in mobile and cloud environments, and beyond. Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed is the most comprehensive, practical reference to modern programming with VB 2015. Long-time Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole walks you through the latest version of the language, helping you thoroughly master its most valuable features, most powerful programming techniques, and most effective development patterns. Next, he shows how to use Visual Basic 2015 to build robust, effective software in a wide range of environments. Extensively updated for Visual Basic 2015’s major improvements, this guide covers both Visual Basic 2015 Professional Edition for professional developers and the free Community Edition for hobbyists, novices, and students. Del Sole has added detailed coverage of building new universal Windows apps for Windows 10 and using new Visual Studio 2015 capabilities to supercharge your productivity as a developer. If you want to leverage all of VB 2015’s power, this is the book you need. Detailed information on how to... Understand the Visual Studio 2015 IDE, .NET Framework 4.6 and the new .NET Core 5, and the anatomy of a VB 2015 application Debug VB applications and implement error handling and exceptions Keep your code clean and well-organized with VB 2015’s new refactoring tools Master modern VB object development: namespaces, modules, structures, enums, inheritance, interfaces, generics, delegates, events, collections, iterators, and more Share Visual Basic code with Portable Class Libraries and Shared Projects Access data with LINQ and ADO.NET Entity Framework Manipulate XML documents with LINQ and XML Literals Build and deploy applications to run in the Microsoft Azure cloud Develop universal Windows apps that run on any Windows 10 device Use advanced .NET 4.6 platform capabilities, including async and parallel programming, multithreading, assemblies, reflection, and coding attributes Leverage new compiler APIs to write custom domain-specific live code analysis rules Test code with unit tests and TDD Deploy apps efficiently with InstallShield for Visual Studio and ClickOnce

C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework
C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework

Author: ANDREW TROELSEN

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 1660

ISBN-13: 1484213327

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This new 7th edition of Pro C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Platform has been completely revised and rewritten to reflect the latest changes to the C# language specification and new advances in the .NET Framework. You'll find new chapters covering all the important new features that make .NET 4.6 the most comprehensive release yet, including: A Refined ADO.NET Entity Framework Programming Model Numerous IDE and MVVM Enhancements for WPF Desktop Development Numerous updates to the ASP.NET Web APIs This comes on top of award winning coverage of core C# features, both old and new, that have made the previous editions of this book so popular. Readers will gain a solid foundation of object-oriented development techniques, attributes and reflection, generics and collections as well as numerous advanced topics not found in other texts (such as CIL opcodes and emitting dynamic assemblies). The mission of this book is to provide you with a comprehensive foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform plus overviews of technologies built on top of C# and .NET (ADO.NET and Entity Framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, WebAPI).). Once you digest the information presented in these chapters, you’ll be in a perfect position to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments, and you’ll be well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own terms. What You Will Learn: Be the first to understand the .NET 4.6 platform and C# 6. Discover the ins and outs of the leading .NET technology. Learn from an award-winning author who has been teaching the .NET world since version 1.0. Find complete coverage of XAML, .NET 4.6 and Visual Studio 2015 together with discussion of the new Windows Runtime.

Beginning PowerApps
Beginning PowerApps

Author: Tim Leung

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1484230035

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Build mobile apps that specifically target your company’s unique business needs, with the same ease of writing a simple spreadsheet! With this book, you will build business apps designed to work with your company's systems and databases, without having to enlist the expertise of costly, professionally trained software developers. In Beginning PowerApps, author and business applications expert Tim Leung guides you step-by-step through the process of building your own mobile app. He assumes no technical background, although if you have worked with Excel, you are one step closer. He guides you through scenarios, such as what to do if you have existing databases with complex data structures and how to write screens that can connect to those data. You will come away with an understanding of how to set up screen navigation, manipulate data from within apps, and write solutions to perform specific tasks. What You'll Learn Connect with data Write formulas Visualize your data through charts Work with global positioning systems (GPS) Build flows Import and export data Manage offline scenarios Develop custom application programming interfaces (API) Who This Book Is For Beginners and non-developers, and assumes no prior knowledge of PowerApps

Empowering Organizations
Empowering Organizations

Author: Teresina Torre

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-03

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3319237845

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This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on the enabling aspects of Information and Communication Technologies. In particular, it focuses on the two topics of digital platforms and digital artefacts, and discusses their role in enabling organizations to achieve specific goals, to exploit innovative value propositions, or to leverage innovative coordination mechanisms. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective on a variety of information systems topics, the book offers interesting insights for IS managers, business managers, and policymakers alike. It is based on a selection of the best research papers - original double-blind peer-reviewed contributions - presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the AIS, held in Genoa (Italy) in November 2014.

An Introduction to Building Applications with Blazor
An Introduction to Building Applications with Blazor

Author: Michael Washington

Publisher: Blazor Help Website

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1688540040

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How to get started creating applications using this exciting easy to use Microsoft C# framework. Using over 250 diagrams and images, this book describes what Blazor is, what makes it different, and how to use it to create business applications. The tutorials walk you through 100% of the required code to build the applications and examples. Chapter 1: What is Blazor? Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter 3: Blazor Binding, Events and Parameters Chapter 4: Creating a Step-By-Step End-To-End Database Server-Side Blazor Application Chapter 5: Blazor Forms and Validation Chapter 6: Implementing State Management in Blazor Chapter 7: Creating Blazor Templated Components Chapter 8: Blazor JavaScript Interop Chapter 9: A Demonstration of Simple Server Side Blazor Cookie Authentication Chapter 10: Deploying a Server Side Blazor Application To Azure

Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform
Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform

Author: Ayan Chatterjee

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2017-06-30

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1484226291

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Develop Windows 10 applications faster and more efficiently using the Universal Windows Platform. You will use Xamarin to create apps for macOS, iOS, and Android devices. Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform is a complete guide covering PCs, tablets, phones, and other devices such as HoloLens. You will use Windows 10 to develop apps for desktop, mobile, holographic, wearable, and IoT devices. You will reuse code to easily create cross-platform apps. What You Will Learn Design and develop apps using Visual Studio and Blend Create Cortana-enabled apps for a hands-free experience Build IoT apps and apps for wearables such as the Microsoft HoloLens Monitor apps post-publication to gain insights from actionable data using Windows Store Analytics and Azure Who This Book Is For Professional developers working independently or in a team on Windows 10 applications, and students coming into the world of software development