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Bring Your iPhone Apps and Skills to Windows Phone 7—or Build Apps for Both Mobile Platforms at Once

If you’ve been developing for the crowded iPhone marketplace, this book will help you leverage your iOS skills on a fast-growing new platform: Windows Phone 7 (WP7). If you’re a .NET programmer, it will help you build advanced WP7 mobile solutions that reflect valuable lessons learned by iPhone developers. If you’re a mobile development manager, it offers indispensable insights for planning cross-platform projects.

Kevin Hoffman guides you through the entire WP7 SDK, showing how it resembles Apple’s iOS SDK, where it differs, and how to build production-quality WP7 apps that sell. Step by step, you’ll master each technology you’ll need, including C#, Silverlight and XAML. Every new concept is introduced along with all the tools and background needed to apply it.

Hoffman’s practical insights extend into every facet of WP7 development: building user interfaces; hardware and device services; WP7’s unique Application Tiles; Push Notifications; the Phone Execution Model, local storage, smart clients, MVVM design, security, social gaming, testing, debugging, deployment, and more. A pleasure to read and packed with realistic examples, this is the most useful Windows Phone 7 development book you can find.

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Compare Apple’s Objective-C and Microsoft’s C#: “second cousins twice removed”

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Apply C# object techniques—including encapsulation, inheritance, contracts, and interfaces

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Build rich, compelling user interfaces based on Silverlight, XAML, and events

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Move from Apple’s Xcode to Visual Studio 2010 and from Interface Builder to Expression Blend

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Leverage hardware and device services, including the accelerometer, GPS, photos, contacts, e-mail, and SMS

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Create dynamic application Tiles to appear on the Start screen

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ “Push” raw data notifications to running apps

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Understand and use the Windows Phone 7 phone execution model

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Efficiently store and retrieve data on WP7 phones

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Build “smart clients” that sync locally stored data with web services

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Manage growing app complexity through “separation of concerns” and MVVM (Model-View-View Model)

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Use TDD and automated testing to accelerate and streamline development

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Create casual, connected games and social apps

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Secure apps without incurring unacceptable tradeoffs

·¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Successfully deploy apps to the Marketplace

At a time when nearly every vertical, regardless of domain, seems to need software running in the cloud to make money, microservices provide the agility and drastically reduced time to market you require. This hands-on guide shows you how to create, test, compile, and deploy microservices, using the ASP.NET Core free and open-source framework. Along the way, you’ll pick up good, practical habits for building powerful and robust services.

Building microservices isn’t about learning a specific framework or programming language; it’s about building applications that thrive in elastically scaling environments that don''t have host affinity, and that can start and stop at a moment’s notice. This practical book guides you through the process.

At a time when nearly every vertical, regardless of domain, seems to need software running in the cloud to make money, microservices provide the agility and drastically reduced time to market you require. This hands-on guide shows you how to create, test, compile, and deploy microservices, using the ASP.NET Core free and open-source framework. Along the way, you’ll pick up good, practical habits for building powerful and robust services.

Building microservices isn’t about learning a specific framework or programming language; it’s about building applications that thrive in elastically scaling environments that don''t have host affinity, and that can start and stop at a moment’s notice. This practical book guides you through the process.

WebAssembly fulfills the long-awaited promise of web technologies: fast code, type-safe at compile time, execution in the browser, on embedded devices, or anywhere else. Rust delivers the power of C in a language that strictly enforces type safety. Combine both languages and you can write for the web like never before! Learn how to integrate with JavaScript, run code on platforms other than the browser, and take a step into IoT. Discover the easy way to build cross-platform applications without sacrificing power, and change the way you write code for the web.

WebAssembly is more than just a revolutionary new technology. It''s reshaping how we build applications for the web and beyond. Where technologies like ActiveX and Flash have failed, you can now write code in whatever language you prefer and compile to WebAssembly for fast, type-safe code that runs in the browser, on mobile devices, embedded devices, and more. Combining WebAssembly''s portable, high-performance modules with Rust''s safety and power is a perfect development combination.

Learn how WebAssembly''s stack machine architecture works, install low-level wasm tools, and discover the dark art of writing raw wast code. Build on that foundation and learn how to compile WebAssembly modules from Rust by implementing the logic for a checkers game. Create wasm modules in Rust to interoperate with JavaScript in many compelling ways. Apply your new skills to the world of non-web hosts, and create everything from an app running on a Raspberry Pi that controls a lighting system, to a fully-functioning online multiplayer game engine where developers upload their own arena-bound WebAssembly combat modules.

Get started with WebAssembly today, and change the way you think about the web.

What You Need:

You''ll need a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation with an Internet connection. You''ll need an up-to-date web browser that supports WebAssembly. To work with the sample code, you can use your favorite text editor or IDE. The book will guide you through installing the Rust and WebAssembly tools needed for each chapter.