Packed with examples, this comprehensive guide walks you through all the new features of Visual Studio 2010, demonstrates how to customize the IDE to meet your working needs and shares techniques for building rich client applications. It covers fundamental improvements in debugging and test–driven development.

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Part of the Missing Manual series, this book walks you through the entire iPhone app development process. You'll learn how to download the tools, build the app, get it through Apple's approval process, and then market and maintain the finished product. All you need to get started is a familiarity with object-oriented programming.

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Covering methods, architectures and technologies this book offers an overview of concepts and principles in the emerging area of context-aware web services, looking at recent advances and predicting future trends. It presents service paradigms for software development, focusing on context-aware applications.

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Introduces you to every aspect of Drupal 7, the latest version of the free, open source content management system. Demystifies key areas and shortens the learning curve for even the most novice beginner. With lessons and sample code that offer extra insight into a Drupal web site.

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Shows you how to approach legacy "brownfield" applications with the concepts, patterns, and tools you've learned to apply to new projects. Using an existing application as an example, this book guides you in applying the techniques and best practices you need to make it more maintainable and receptive to change.

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Jim Waldo peels away 15 years of additions and changes to reveal the very best parts of Java, and shows how those parts alone will help you build better applications. You may not like some of the features this book reveals, but you'll actually write better code with them.

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Divided into specific game genre projects this book covers everything from old classics such as a Missile Command-style game, to new genres such as tower defense. The chapters build in complexity and new tools are introduced along the way that can be reused for other games.

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This Adventure Book has building and programming instructions for eight innovative robots. Follow two astronauts through training in the basics of programming NXT robots, building increasingly sophisticated robots as the book progresses. Learn essential programming skills - how to make robots move, how to use sensors.

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Perl has evolved into a multipurpose, multiplatform language for heavy-duty web applications, the cloud, systems administration, natural language processing, and financial engineering. Now in its 3rd edition this book explores Perl’s role regarding all of these tasks and more.

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This introduction to Apple's Cocoa programming environment and its Objective-C language quickly gets you up to speed with step-by-step tutorials, hands-on tasks, and numerous examples. You'll learn just enough foundation and theory to ground you before jumping right into building applications, managing events, creating GUIs, and more.

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Using a Web site created by the author as a reference point, you′ll go through the steps of creating a live, fully functional application for the Web using Silverlight 4 and the Silverlight Control Toolkit. Along the way, the book addresses important design considerations, such as the use of Web Services and the SQL Server database.

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