Windows Telephony Programming: A Developer's Guide to TAPI offers C++ programmers a clear and concise tutorial to Windows Telephony that significantly reduces TAPI's steep learning curve. TAPI is an API that has standardized the interface between computers and telephony hardware. Included with Windows 9x and Windows NT, TAPI is a major element of the Windows communications backbone. Despite its growing importance, TAPI may still be very daunting and difficult to master.

Windows Telephony Programming: A Developer's Guide to TAPI

Computers & Technology

Sells, Chris

Operating Systems

Addison-Wesley Professional

ActiveX controls are a Microsoft technology that allows developers to reuse components. The ActiveX Template Library (ATL) is a C++ library of class and function templates. ATL is a faster, easier-to-learn alternative to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), that allows Windows programmers to produce compact code quickly. 
This book provides practical solutions for programmers, and explains these solutions on a detailed, technical level -- keeping the technology in a real-world context that many books lack. Programmers will learn how to create new ActiveX controls using ATL, and how to modify the thousands of available ActiveX controls to fit specific needs. 
Written by well-respected writer and teacher Brent Rector along with DevelopMentor's Chris Sells, the content of this book has been taught in courses for the Technology Exchange Company and Wise Owl Consulting. The book covers the latest version of ATL, 2.1, a major revision.

Atl Internals

Rector, Brent

Addison-Wesley

Striking a balance between theory and practice, this text covers WinForms programming. The content and structure are based on years of experience both building applications with WinForms as well as teaching other developers about WinForms.

Windows Forms Programming in C#

AddisonWesley Professional

If you are just beginning to use WinForms, or even if you are already an experienced hand, you will find this book an antidote for confusion and a friendly companion on the road to writing modern applications. Alan Cooper, Father of Visual BasicWindows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET is the ultimate guide to using the Microsoft .NET forms package. Readers will learn how to build applications that take full advantage of both the rich user interface features of the Microsoft Windows operating system and the deployment features traditionally associated with HTML-based applications. Authors Chris Sells and Justin Gehtland draw upon their WinForms research and programming experience to go beyond the Windows Forms documentation to give you a clear picture of exactly how Visual Basic .NET programmers can use WinForms. Readers will gain an understanding of the rationale behind aspects of WinForms design and learn how to avoid or solve common problems. Throughout the book, detailed illustrations of WinForms user interface features and working code samples demonstrate best practices. All code has been tested with Visual Studio .NET 1.1 and is available at www sellsbrothers.com, wher

Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Programming

This text seeks to address the real-world problems of how to develop commercial-quality OLE component objects. It is a how-to guide for OLE programmers, concentrating on the MFC methods that an OLE programmer will use.

ATL Internals: Working With ATL 8

Fertitta, Kirk

Networking & Cloud Computing

A guide to using the Microsoft .NET forms package covers such topics as form layout, custom drawing, data binding, multithreated user interfaces, and moving from MFC.

Windows Forms 2.0 Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

Weinhardt, Michael

Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript is the definitive guide for every experienced developer who wants to create, ship, and profit from Windows 8 apps built with HTML5 and JavaScript. Written by Chris Sells, former Visual Studio Principal Program Manager who led the team that built Microsoft’s official Windows 8 JavaScript app templates, and Brandon Satrom, expert web/mobile developer, this book covers every facet of development with Microsoft’s new JavaScript framework and WinRT. The authors guide you through building full-featured Windows Store apps that merge the best aspects of desktop, web, and mobile apps into a single user and developer experience. You’ll learn how to leverage the full power of the Windows 8 platform and integrate services ranging from client-side state to offline storage. Leveraging these techniques, you can deliver information to users faster, more clearly, and more concisely, on whatever devices they prefer. Through complete example projects, Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript covers <ul>
<li> Understanding powerful new improvements in Windows 8 developer experience </li> <li> Using Windows 8’s more flexible binding to update the UI as underlying data changes </li> <li> Creating layouts and typography that fit Windows 8 style and leverage its advantages </li> <li> Working with audio, video, captured media, animation, and HTML5 graphics </li> <li> Making your app “connectable” with PlayTo </li> <li> Integrating WinJS navigation services to improve UI control </li> <li> Maintaining app states built up over time, and sharing them across devices </li> <li> Writing highly responsive async apps </li> <li> Supporting true-touch metaphors and interactions, location data, and sensors </li> <li> Designing apps for the Windows 8 design language </li> <li> Extending JavaScript code to integrate existing C/C++ code or to access Windows capabilities that WinRT doesn’t expose </li> <li> Discovering best practices for monetizing Windows Store apps </li> </ul>
All of the downloadable examples can be created and run with Microsoft’s free Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8, which includes all you need to build, package, and deploy your Windows Store apps.

Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript

Web Development & Design

Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides you, as an experienced programmer, with all the information needed to get the most out of the latest and greatest development tool from Microsoft®. It doesn't matter if you're an MFC, C++, STL, ATL, COM, Win32, Visual Basic, C#, HTML, XML, ASP.NET, database, web application, Web service, NT service, stand-alone client, or component programmer targeting Windows® or one of the Windows variants (i.e. Windows CE or the PocketPC) -- this is the book that will help you master the toolkit.Written by experienced developers and trainers John Flanders, Ian Griffiths, and Chris Sells, Mastering Visual Studio .NET begins with fundamental information about maximizing the power of Visual Studio .NET as it comes out of the box, including the following topics:
<ul>
<li>projects and solutions</li>
<li>files and the various file editors</li>
<li>debugging</li>
<li>web projects</li>
<li>database projects</li>
<li>setup projects</li>
</ul>To experience the full spectrum of functionality and extensibility, Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides you with the practical depth and detail needed to best put these features to work. The second section of the book is about extending VS.NET to suit your specific needs:<ul>
<li>integrating controls and components with VS.NET</li>
<li>the VS.NET automation object model</li>
<li>macros and add-ins</li>
<li>custom wizards</li>
<li>the Visual Studio Integration Program (VSIP)</li>
</ul>If you're serious about using the VS.NET toolkit, you'll want a book of this magnitude close by. Mastering Visual Studio .NET will take you beyond what you'll read in the standard documentation by offering hints and recommendations that the authors and the community at large have found to be useful after many years of experience.

Mastering Visual Studio .NET: Getting the Most Out of the Visual Studio .NET Environment

Griffiths, Ian

Flanders, Jon

O'Reilly Media

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (formerly known by its code name "Avalon") is a brand-new presentation framework for Windows XP and Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows client operating system. For developers, WPF is a cornucopia of new technologies, including a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language (XAML) for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls.
Programming Windows Presentation Foundation, authored by Microsoft Software Legend Chris Sells and WPF guru Ian Griffiths, is the book you need to get up to speed on WPF. By page two, you'll have written your first WPF application, and by the end of Chapter 1, "Hello WPF," you'll have completed a rapid tour of the framework and its major elements. These include the XAML markup language and the mapping of XAML markup to WinFX code; the WPF content model; layout; controls, styles, and templates; graphics and animation; and, finally, deployment.
Programming Windows Presentation Foundation features:
<ul>
<li>Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game</li>
<li>Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls</li>
<li>A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects</li>
<li>A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI</li>
<li>An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications</li>
</ul>
The next generation of Windows applications is going to blaze a trail into the unknown. WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world; it's an engine just itching to be taken for a spin. Inside, you'll find the keys to the ignition.
Updated samples and change notes for the move from the February CTP to Beta 2 are now available from the example site: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/avbook/

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major elements. WPF is the new presentation framework for Windows Vista that also works with Windows XP. It's a cornucopia of new technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language, called XAML, for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls. This second edition includes new chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with a new appendix that covers Microsoft's new WPF/E platform for delivering richer UI through standard web browsers -- much like Adobe Flash. Content from the first edition has been significantly expanded and modified. Programming WPF includes: <ul>
<li>Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game</li>
<li>Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls</li>
<li>A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects</li>
<li>A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI</li>
<li>An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications</li>
</ul>
WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world. Programming WPF helps you bring it all together.

Programming Wpf: Building Windows Ui with Windows Presentation Foundation

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