May 15, 2012 |
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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to drive powerful business results with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn how to orchestrate successful CRM projects, automate processes, create more efficient workflows, optimize sales and marketing campaigns, and integrate with your other systems to do even more. One step at a time, you’ll master new features ranging from the new Ribbon interface to SharePoint integration. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, helping you get the job done fast–and get it done right!
Step-by-step instructions walk you through common tasks.
Quizzes and exercises at the end of each chapter test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present information related to the discussion.
Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Learn how to…
May 15, 2012 |
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Covers Xbox 360, Kinect, and Xbox LIVE
Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Xbox photos that show you exactly what to do
Help when you run into problems with Xbox 360, Kinect, or Xbox LIVE
Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Xbox 360 system
Full-color, step-by-step tasks show you how to have maximum fun with Xbox 360, Kinect, and Xbox LIVE! Learn how to:
- Quickly set up your Xbox 360, Kinect sensor, controllers, headset, and storage
- Network your Xbox using wireless or wired connections
- Join Xbox LIVE and start competing against gamers worldwide
- Create your avatar and personalize your entire Xbox experience
- Get great new content on Microsoft’s Game, Video, and Music Marketplaces
- Find, contact, and team up with friends on Xbox LIVE
- Protect your kids from inappropriate content
- Post on Facebook and Twitter from your Xbox
- Discover how Kinect is the future of motion control–now!
- Get great performance from your Kinect sensor
- Troubleshoot Xbox problems fast, so you can get back to having fun! Download Now »
May 11, 2012 |
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Essential Windows Phone 7.5is the definitive guide to creating powerful, visually compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 platform. Nine-time Microsoft MVP Shawn Wildermuth draws on his extensive experience teaching Silverlight and Windows Phone development, helping you to get started fast and master techniques that lead to truly outstanding apps.
After introducing the latest version of Windows Phone, Shawn Wildermuth dives directly into the essentials, emphasizing best-practice examples and illustrating with code. You’ll build a complete application from start to finish, then build on your skills with increasingly sophisticated techniques.
From planning and design through application delivery, Shawn Wildermuth guides you through the entire mobile development lifecycle, showing how to make the most of Windows Phone 7.5’s most important new capabilities. Whether you’re a .NET or Silverlight developer going mobile, or an experienced mobile developer moving to Windows Phone, Essential Windows Phone 7.5 delivers all the skills you’ll need.
Coverage includes:
- Leveraging Microsoft’s breakthrough Metro design language
- Using phone features such as email, calling, search, Web browsing, and the camera
- Designing the look and feel of your user interface with XAML Download Now »
May 11, 2012 |
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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Windows Phone 7 photos so that you can see exactly what to do
Help when you run into Windows Phone 7 problems or limitations
Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Windows Phone 7 device
Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Windows Phone 7 working just the way you want. Learn how to:
- Get started fast! Covers Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release.
- Master Windows Phone 7’s elegant interface and powerful shortcuts
- Quickly set up ringtones, voicemail, Airplane Mode, wallpaper, accessibility, and more
- Connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth devices
- Get and send messages easily via Outlook, Windows Live, and Google accounts
- Find almost anything with content search, contact search, and Bing web search
- Work seamlessly with OneNote, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint documents
- Use Zune and Marketplace to import media content and download applications
- Discover your phone’s built-in apps, and easily pin them to your Start screen
- Store content in the cloud, with Microsoft SkyDrive
- Reach your destination faster with Maps, GPS, and turn-by-turn voice directions
- Use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn social networking via the People Hub Download Now »
May 04, 2012 |
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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build high performance games for Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft’s free XNA 4.0 toolset. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master all the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish highly playable games for any WP7 device. You’ll learn how to integrate game logic, touch screen user input, bitmaps, animations, audio, physics effects, GPS location services, and more. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, culminating in the construction of a complete game—and giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Windows Phone 7 game development tasks.
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.
Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Learn how to… Download Now »
May 02, 2012 |
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Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek’s guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft’s release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost sensor that can detect and track body movement in three-dimensional space. The Kinect set new records for the fastest-selling gadget of all time. It has been adopted worldwide by hobbyists, robotics enthusiasts, artists, and even some entrepreneurs hoping to build business around the technology.
Hacking the Kinect introduces you to programming for the Kinect. You’ll learn to set up a software environment, stream data from the Kinect, and write code to interpret that data. The progression of hands-on projects in the book leads you even deeper into an understanding of how the device functions and how you can apply it to create fun and educational projects. Who knows? You might even come up with a business idea.
- Provides an excellent source of fun and educational projects for a tech-savvy parent to pursue with a son or daughter
- Leads you progressively from making your very first connection to the Kinect through mastery of its full feature set
- Shows how to interpret the Kinect data stream in order to drive your own software and hardware applications, including robotics applications Download Now »
