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Chris Sells

Brandon Satrom

Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript is the definitive guide for every experienced developer who wants to create, ship, and profit from Windows 8 apps built with HTML5 and JavaScript. Written by Chris Sells, former Visual Studio Principal Program Manager who led the team that built Microsoft’s official Windows 8 JavaScript app templates, and Brandon Satrom, expert web/mobile developer, this book covers every facet of development with Microsoft’s new JavaScript framework and WinRT. The authors guide you through building full-featured Windows Store apps that merge the best aspects of desktop, web, and mobile apps into a single user and developer experience. You’ll learn how to leverage the full power of the Windows 8 platform and integrate services ranging from client-side state to offline storage. Leveraging these techniques, you can deliver information to users faster, more clearly, and more concisely, on whatever devices they prefer. Through complete example projects, Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript covers Understanding powerful new improvements in Windows 8 developer experience Using Windows 8’s more flexible binding to update the UI as underlying data changes Creating layouts and typography that fit Windows 8 style and leverage its advantages Working with audio, video, captured media, animation, and HTML5 graphics Making your app “connectable” with PlayTo Integrating WinJS navigation services to improve UI control Maintaining app states built up over time, and sharing them across devices Writing highly responsive async apps Supporting true-touch metaphors and interactions, location data, and sensors Designing apps for the Windows 8 design language Extending JavaScript code to integrate existing C/C++ code or to access Windows capabilities that WinRT doesn’t expose Discovering best practices for monetizing Windows Store apps All of the downloadable examples can be created and run with Microsoft’s free Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8, which includes all you need to build, package, and deploy your Windows Store apps.

Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript

Windows 8のアプリケーションはJavaScriptで構築できる これまでのWindowsとは大きく異るインターフェイスを採用し、賛否両論を巻き起こしたWindows 8。けれども、そのおかげ（？）でJavaScriptによるアプリケーション開発が可能になりました。 本書はWebプログラマのデファクト開発言語で、Windowsで動作する専用アプリケーションを作成する方法を、Microsoftの元“中の人”が徹底解説してくれます。もちろん、Windows 8に搭載された各種機能の詳細も網羅しているので、C#／VB.NET開発者の方々にも有益な情報満載です。

JavaScriptによるWindows8.1アプリケーション構築

Offering 50 concrete guidelines for COM based on the communal wisdom that has formed over the past five years of COM-based development, this book is targeted at developers who are living and breathing COM, humbled by its complexity and challenged by the breadth of distributed object computing. Cover Title

50 Ways to Improve Your COM and MTS-based Applications

Effective COM

Provides information about Microsoft .NET and programming in the .NET Framework, covering topics including the evolution of the Common Language Runtime, application domains, security, and interoperability.

The Common Language Runtime

Essential .Net

Shows developers how COM operates and how to use it to create efficient and stable programs consistent with the COM philosophy, allowing disparate applications and components to work together across a variety of languages, platforms, and host machines. Original. (Advanced).

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