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In SharePoint Designer 2010: Creating Data-Driven Web Pages, author Simon Allardice explores how to use SharePoint Designer to create rich, highly visual web pages in SharePoint that connect, read, and even update information stored externally. The course shows how to manage data sources that connect to different databases, web services, and XML files, without any coding necessary. It also covers how to provide powerful visual information with conditional formatting, and how to make custom data entry forms.

In InfoPath 2010 Essential Training, InfoPath expert Gini Courter shows how to create and publish sophisticated electronic forms using the latest version of Microsoft's form-creation tool. The course introduces the new InfoPath Designer tool and its Ribbon interface and provides in-depth tutorials on designing form templates. The course explains how to create browser forms and publish forms via email, the network, and SharePoint. It also demonstrates advanced aspects of InfoPath, like connecting forms to outside data sources and creating templates from Office documents, databases, or XML files. Exercise files accompany the course.

If you want to use XAML, the XML-based markup language developed by Microsoft to create better user interfaces for Windows applications, you need to understand how it treats content and properties.

The use of RSS feeds is a growing trend, and they can be found within many new websites. In ActionScript 3.0: Working with XML, instructor Todd Perkins places strong emphasis on using RSS data for blogs, podcasts, and images. He also demonstrates how to perform common tasks with XML, such as using E4X syntax, loading external data from local and remote locations, saving data, and integrating with popular services like Flickr. Exercise files accompany the course.

Open up new sources of data and make your user's mobile experience amazing.

Android powers the majority of smartphones on the planet and a growing number of devices, from Android Wear on your wrist to Android Auto for your car.

Explore the world of Android app development.

The Standard PHP Library (SPL) is a collection of useful classes for traversing, filtering, and sorting data and objects. One of its main features is the iterator, which provide easy access to arrays, trees, and directory listings. In this course, David Powers reviews using these iterators to explore the file system, and combining iterators in order to edit and manage specific types of files.