Conquer complex and interesting programming challenges by building robust and concurrent applications with caches, cryptography, and parallel programming.Key FeaturesUnderstand how to use .NET frameworks like the Task Parallel Library (TPL)and CryptoAPIDevelop a containerized application based on microservices architectureGain insights into memory management techniques in .NET CoreBook DescriptionThis Lea...

Learn advanced C\# concepts and techniques such as building caches, cryptography, and parallel programming by solving interesting programming challengesKey FeaturesGain useful insights on advanced C\# programming topics and APIsUse locking and cached values to solve parallel problemsTake advantage of .NET's cryptographic tools to encrypt and decrypt stringsBook DescriptionC\# is a multi-paradigm programming language. The Mode...

A friendly introduction to the most useful algorithms written in simple, intuitive EnglishThe revised and updated second edition of Essential Algorithms, offers an accessible introduction to computer algorithms. The book contains a description of important classical algorithms and explains when each is appropriate. The author shows how to analyze algorithms in order to understand their behavior and teaches techniques that the can be used to create new algo...

Build effective user interfaces with Windows Presentation FoundationWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is included with the Windows operating system and provides a programming model for building applications that provide a clear separation between the UI and business logic. Written by a leading expert on Microsoft graphics programming, this richly illustrated book provides an introduction to WPF development and explains fundamental WPF concepts.Packed wi...

Discover the foundations of software engineering with this easy and intuitive guideIn the newly updated second edition of Beginning Software Engineering, expert programmer and tech educator Rod Stephens delivers an instructive and intuitive introduction to the fundamentals of software engineering. In the book, you’ll learn to create well-constructed software applications that meet the needs of users while developing the practical, hands-on skills needed to...

A concise introduction to database design concepts, methods, and techniques in and out of the cloudIn the newly revised second edition of Beginning Database Design Solutions: Understanding and Implementing Database Design Concepts for the Cloud and Beyond, Second Edition, award-winning programming instructor and mathematician Rod Stephens delivers an easy-to-understand guide to designing and implementing databases both in and out of the cloud. Without assu...

This Wrox Blox is a value-packed resource to help experienced .NET developers learn the new .NET release. It is excerpted from the Wrox books: Professional C# 4 and .NET 4, Professional ASP.NET 4, and WPF Programmer’s Reference by Christian Nagel, Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, and Rod Stephens, and includes more than 100 print book pages drawn from these three key titles. It is an excellent resource to help .NET developers get up to speed fast on .NET 4, C# 4.0, ASP.NET 4, and WPF,...

Stay ahead of the game with this comprehensive guide to the C# programming languageWell-known C# expert Rod Stephens gives novice and experienced developers a comprehensive tutorial and reference to standard C#. This new title fully covers the latest C# language standard, C# 5.0, as well as its implementation in the 2013 release of Visual Studio. The author provides exercises and solutions; and his C# Helper website will provide readers and students with ongoing su...

Quickly learn to program in C# programming with this unique book and video packageC# 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition is your quick and easy guide to programming in C#, even if you have no programming experience at all. Updated to align with the latest C# standard, this book is your comprehensive beginner's guide, with each lesson supplemented by a video, for over ten hours of video training. Each chapter focuses on a specific concept or technique, with detail...

The comprehensive guide to Visual Basic 2012Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is the most popular programming language in the world, with millions of lines of code used in businesses and applications of all types and sizes. In this edition of the bestselling Wrox guide, Visual Basic expert Rod Stephens offers novice and experienced developers a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic 2012. This latest edition introduces major changes to the Visual Studio dev...

Thwart hackers by preventing, detecting, and misdirecting access before they can plant malware, obtain credentials, engage in fraud, modify data, poison models, corrupt users, eavesdrop, and otherwise ruin your dayKey FeaturesDiscover how hackers rely on misdirection and deep fakes to fool even the best security systemsRetain the usefulness of your data by detecting unwanted and invalid modificationsDevelop application code to me...

This book is aimed at people with little or no understanding of developing applications or any experience with Java or computer programming in general.Rather than immediately delving into details, the book focuses instead on constructing simple Android examples that can immediately be seen to work. As an example, some very simple but yet powerful graphics are developed, the image on the book's front cover is an example.As the book progresses more skills are developed and th...