Pro Office 365 Development is a practical, hands-on guide to building cloud-based solutions using the Office 365 platform. This groundbreaking offering from Microsoft provides enterprise-class collaborative solutions at an affordable price, and this book shows you how to use the Office 365 platform to easily build amazing custom applications, including coding for Excel Services, Microsoft Access, and SharePoint Online. This book provides everything you'll need to start developing custom solutions. You'll find step-by-step instructions for providing custom features using the cloud-based services, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. There are lots of sample programs using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), JavaScript and Silverlight. Whether you want to build desktop client applications or browser-only solutions with Microsoft's new cloud-based productivity offering, this book will show you how to do it. * Develop SharePoint solutions, including declarative workflows * Use Access and Excel services to quickly build SharePoint sites * Build content-sensitive collaborative solutions with instant messaging and video conferencing What you'll learn * Configure and administer an enterprise Office 365 account * Implement declarative workflows using Visio and SharePoint Designer * Create web databases using Access and SharePoint * Utilize the SharePoint object model in Visual Studio * Write Silverlight and JScript applications hosted in SharePoint * Build WPF applications to expose Lync and Exchange services Who this book is for Pro Office 365 Development is written for programmers who have experience with Visual Studio and .NET development and want to take the leap into cloud-based solutions. It is ideal for developers making their first foray into collaborative systems such as SharePoint and Exchange, as no prior experience is required.Table of Contents * Getting Started with Office 365 * Using Advanced Features * Office 365 Overview * Customizing SharePoint * Creating Declarative Workflows * Creating Sites with Access 2010 * Excel Services * Accessing External Data * Sharepoint Content * Developing SharePoint Applications * Developing Silverlight and JavaScript Applications * Developing Exchange Online Solutions * Developing Lync Solutions * Solution Overview * Creating a Web Database * Integrating Office365 Technologies * Creating a Public Web Site * SharePoint Primer * Additional Resources

Pro Office 365 Development, Second Edition, is a practical, hands-on guide to building applications for the cloud with Office 365. Combine Office 365 features out of the box with custom code to make the most of what this increasingly powerful and flexible platform has to offer. As an Office 365 developer, you have an amazing range of technologies at your fingertips. Build custom SharePoint apps in Visual Studio using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery. Create declarative workflow applications with Visio and SharePoint Designer. Use Access Web Database to publish your data on the web, or write Exchange and Lync applications. All these possibilities and more are covered. You also have unprecedented control and flexibility over how you use these technologies in your applications. With a powerful set of Office 365 APIs, you can now access and integrate Office 365 data directly into your web or native applications, with full control of authentication, authorization and discovery. No prior cloud experience is necessary. Sample projects are designed to bring the reader up-to-speed quickly, with full step-by-step instructions to maximize your success across the whole Office 365 suite. Whether you want to build desktop client applications or browser-only solutions, Pro Office 365 Development will show you how to do it.

Windows 8 application development is an exciting topic these days. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, the API for accessing the operating system and the underlying hardware where Metro applications run. WinRT can be accessed through multiple development languages, including C++, .NET languages and JavaScript. Developers from all backgrounds can use their skills to build beautiful and fast Windows 8 applications. Author Michael Mayberry takes you through a quick overview of this new addition in WinRT Revealed and will get you started quickly in developing Windows 8 applications in this new environment. Written at a brisk space and a no-nonsense style, you'll find exactly what you need to understand what's different in WinRT compared to what you know, and pointers on how to develop solid WinRT applications even before Windows 8's release. What you'll learn * What WinRT is * How to access WinRT * How to create WinRT components * Best practices for UI programming Who this book is for This book reaches out to all developers who are interesting in creating Windows 8 applications, for both consumers and enterprise. Microsoft's introduction of a new runtime framework in WinRT raises questions.This book aims to answer those questions and prepare developers for building apps for Windows 8. Table of Contents 1. Introducing WinRT 2. Building WinRT Components 3. Building a .Net App With WinRT 4. Reaching Beyond the App Appendix: WinRT Resources