CMIContent Mobile Interactive

HTML5 is the cool new kid on the block for building Web Applications. People generally prefer native mobile apps over bookmarks in mobile browsers. Why not do both? In this course you’ll see how you can use a native mobile shell on the popular mobile platforms (iOS, Andriod, and Windows Phone 7) to host an HTML5 application and how to interact with native APIs, handle offline mode, and deal with devices with different resolutions.

Sharpen your Italian language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture
Better Reading Italian offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Italian vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged.

The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a set of reusable software components that can save you from writing the same plumbing code over and over again. In this course, John covers the basics of the Enterprise Library and shows how to set it up for development in our applications. This course is the first in a series of courses which will cover the entire Enterprise Library and all of the application blocks it is composed of.

Windows Azure Diagnostics is a foundational course for Windows Azure Development, and mastering this is very important for success with Windows Azure Platform. This course starts by walking through key components of Windows Azure Diagnostics, showcasing a basic hello world demo. Then it covers important topics like working in Full IIS mode, integrating with Enterprise Libray Logging Application Block, configuration precedence, and capturing data buffers, including integration with Log4Net. Finally, Niraj shares various tips and tricks including On-Demand transfer, IntelliTrace, PowerShell, Database Trace Listeners, among others. This course is strongly recommended for any serious development on Windows Azure.