Need to make your .NET applications more responsive? Run faster? On today's multicore hardware, async and parallel programming may be the answer. This course (part 1 of 2) overviews the new Task Parallel Library (TPL) in .NET 4, starting with an introduction to its Task-oriented programming model and working through various techniques for effective use of the TPL.
An Introduction to the PhoneGap mobile platform. PhoneGap is an exciting mobile platform that allows mobile developer to build a mobile application using HTML and JavaScript. This course is designed to get you started with PhoneGap by teaching you the basics of creating a PhoneGap application. In this course we will develop a PhoneGap application using the Windows Phone 7 tools and JQuery Mobile. We will also learn how to use some of the PhoneGap native APIs to access the native libraries of various mobile platforms.
Whenever you write an application that requires a login (and need to implement authorization based on that login), this course is for you. It provides a technical introduction to the authentication and authorization APIs in .NET, and focuses specifically on the new claims-based identity features in .NET 4.5.