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Beyond Bullet Points Beyond Bullet Points, Third Edition


Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks: Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks


Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010


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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4


MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-642): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Second Edition


Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix


Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011


Windows Small Business Server 2011 Administrator's Companion Windows Small Business Server 2011 Administrator's Companion


Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out


Windows Azure Step by Step Windows Azure Step by Step


Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 Step by Step Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 Step by Step


Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step


Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++


Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project Successful Project Management


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Microsoft Press E-Reference Library
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Microsoft Press BooksMicrosoft Press newsletter subscribers get early access to this deal. SAVE 50% on these ebooks from Microsoft Press. Ace your exams prep and build job skills with hands-on lessons, practice tests, and other resources. Offer expires June 16th at 12:01am PT.

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Free Book Samplers
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Bytes by MSDN Interview: Jason Jacobs talks about developing for Windows Phone 7

Bytes by MSDN Interview Jason Jacobs, CEO of RunKeeper (a mobile fitness platform for runners and other fitness enthusiasts) shares his experiences with developing on the Windows Phone 7 platform with Brian Gorbett, Senior Architect Evangelist. Jason describes Windows Phone 7 as a powerful channel to gain new users and a way to improve the functionality of the RunKeeper system overall. If you're a mobile developer and fitness enthusiast, this is one interview you won't want to miss.

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Resources for Windows Phone 7 Development

App Hub If you've already downloaded the free ebook Programming Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft Press and you still want more, visit the Windows Phone developer resources pages on App Hub.

The team has created topic pages so you can learn everything you need to know to create great apps and games for Windows Phone.

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Excerpt #6 from CLR via C#,
Third Edition

CLR via C#, Third Edition

We'd like to share an excerpt from one of our new books: CLR via C#, Third Edition by Jeffrey Richter. This excerpt is from Chapter 24, Runtime Serialization.

Here's a list of the previously posted exerpts from CLR via C#, Third Edition:

Excerpt #5
Chapter 20, "Exceptions and State Management"

Excerpt #4
Chapter 25, "Thread Basics"

Excerpt #3
Chapter 21, "Automatic Memory Management (Garbage Collection)"

Excerpt #2
Chapter 23, "Assembly Loading and Reflection"

Excerpt #1
Chapter 26, "Compute-Bound Asynchronous Operations"



Coming Soon: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

In case you missed it, in a press release from MIX11, the following news was shared:

During MIX, Microsoft detailed some of the features in the Kinect for Windows Beta SDK from Microsoft Research coming in the spring, including the following:

  • Robust Skeletal Tracking for high-performance capabilities that track the skeleton image of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view
  • Advanced Audio Capabilities, including four-element microphone array with sophisticated acoustic noise and echo cancellation for great audio; beam formation to identify the current sound source and integration with the Windows speech recognition API also included
  • XYZ depth camera for standard color camera stream access and depth data that indicates the distance of the object from the Kinect camera

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Inside the Mango Developer Tools

Inside the Mango Developer Tools

Brandon Watson interviews the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango:

Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications
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Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search
(with Jared Brown)

Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform
(with Andrew Clinick)



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