Web parts play a major role in the SharePoint user interface story. Most of the pages you see in a typical SharePoint site have one or more web parts on them. Needless to say, developing custom web parts is one of the more common tasks given to a SharePoint developer and likely how they were introduced to SharePoint development in the first place. This course examines web part development from asking, What are web parts? to looking at how to connect two web parts using ASP.NET Ajax. Whether you are new to building web parts or you have some experience under your belt, youll find tips and techniques in this course to help you become a more effective web part developer.

Visual Studio 2010 is a huge and complex product. This course explains how projects and solutions are organized, how to use Visual Studio for a variety of common tasks, and how to be productive no matter the language or technology youre targeting. Code-writing features including finding and navigating in code, customizing your settings, and fixing compiler errors are supplemented with coverage of the designers shipped with Visual Studio, some helpful extensions, and productivity boosters like IntelliSense and refactoring.

Web parts play a major role in the SharePoint user interface story. Most of the pages you see in a typical SharePoint site have one or more web parts on them. Needless to say, developing custom web parts is one of the more common tasks given to a SharePoint developer and likely how they were introduced to SharePoint development in the first place.

Web parts play a major role in the SharePoint user interface story. Most of the pages you see in a typical SharePoint site have one or more web parts on them. Needless to say, developing custom web parts is one of the more common tasks given to a SharePoint developer and likely how they were introduced to SharePoint development in the first place.

jQuery Mobile is a javascript framework for web developers who want to optimize web sites for smartphones and tablets. This course will use HTML 5, jQuery Mobile, ASP.NET MVC 4, and Visual Studio 2011 to demonstrate the widgets, API, touch-events, and navigation features of jQuery Mobile. We'll take an existing web site built for desktop applications and reuse as much code as possible while building out a better experience for mobile users.

Super fast rendering, code-less tag syntax, and no DOM nor jQuery dependency . That's JsRender. JsRender (the successor to jQuery Templates) is a javascript library that allows you to define a boilerplate structure once and reuse it to generate content dynamically. Learn how JsRender brings a new templating library to HTML5 development that has a code-less tag syntax, high performance, no dependency on jQuery nor a DOM, supports creating custom functions, and uses pure string based rendering.

The Windows 8 Metro platform redefines the way apps access and manipulate data. In this course we learn how to work with application data, that is, working data that is created and accessed by your app on a continuous basis.

This course will help you understand the basics of why Google+ is an important platform for every business to consider. In Google+ for Business, you'll study all the basic components you need to understand to get your business going on Google's new social network, as well as tips and tricks on how you can propel your business above your competition by applying Google's new social layer into your social strategy.

This course introduces several advanced security topics in SharePoint 2010. It first walks you through how to create a custom STS using WIF and integrate it with your SharePoint 2010 applications. Next it discusses the role of the claims augmentation provider in SharePoint 2010. Finally, it covers how to integrate Azure ACS with SharePoint 2010.

We're in a new era of software and devices, and user expectations are rising rapidly. To meet those expectations, developers need to understand more about design concepts. Whether working alone, or with a designer, this course will help by explaining fundamental principles, concepts, and terminology, and by exposing developers to a broad range of design possibilities.

Android 4.0 includes a number of new developer features that improve the ability for applications to support a wide variety of devices and enhance developer productivity. In this course we will exam many of these new features including Android user interface Fragments, the ActionBar, how to detect network availability, working with peer-to-peer network communications, and using the new Calendar API.

The Caching Application Block is part of the Microsoft Enterprise Library. This block enables you to add caching to your applications that can be configured in a variety of ways. In this course we will learn the basics of the Caching Application Block, and see how to configure it to cache data with different expiration policies. We will also see how we can store that data even when our application exits through the use of backing storage. If you are considering adding caching to your application to improve performance, but don't know where to start, this block can help you get started and understand basic caching scenarios.

This course is designed to help you better understand how to use SQL Server effectively. The course presents many of the common misconceptions about SQL Server, and then carefully debunks those misconceptions with clear explanations and short but compelling demos, showing you how SQL Server really works. This course is for anyone working with SQL Server databases who wants to improve her knowledge and understanding of this complex platform.