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Apress is a publishing company devoted to meeting the needs of programmers and IT professionals. Apress' unique approach to computer book publishing grew out of conversations between Dan Appleman and Gary Cornell, Apress' founders, who believe that too many programming books are of such low quality that they are a complete waste of time.

Books by this publisher

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in VB

Published 8 years ago

by Matthew MacDonald, Apress

This book is the most comprehensive and up to date introduction to ASP.NET ever written. Focusing solely on Visual Basic, with no code samples duplicated in other languages, award winning author Matthew MacDonald introduces you to the very latest thinking and best practices for the ASP.NET 4.5 technology.Assuming no prior coding experience, you'll be taught everything you need to know from the ground up.
Pro C# and the .NET 4.5 Framework (Professional Apress)

Published 8 years ago

by Andrew Troelsen, Apress

This new edition of Pro C# 4.5 and the .NET Platform has been completely revised and rewritten to reflect the latest changes to the C# language specification and new advances in the .NET Framework. You'll find new chapters covering all the important new features that make .NET 4.5 the most comprehensive release yet, including: *.NET APIs for Metro-style apps *An improved Managed Extesibility Framework (MEF) *New asynchronous task-based model for async operations
SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning

Published 8 years ago

by Grant Fritchey, Apress

Queries not running fast enough? Tired of the phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey’s book SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques. It is current with SQL Server 2012. It provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.
Beginning C# 2012 Databases (Beginning Apress)

Published 8 years ago

by Vidya Vrat Agarwal, Apress

Assuming only basic knowledge of C#, Beginning C# 2012 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers.A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2012 and .NET 4.5, Beginning C# 2012 Databases explains and demonstrates how to create database objects and program against them in both T–SQL and C
Illustrated C# 2012

Published 8 years ago

by Daniel Solis, Apress

This book presents the C# 2012 language in a uniquely succinct and visual format. Often in programming books, the information can be hidden in a vast sea of words. As a programmer who has over the years used a dozen programming languages, the author understands it can sometimes be difficult to slog through another 1,000-page book of dense text to learn a new language. There are likely many other programmers who feel the same way.
Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS: Web Standards-based Apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Published 8 years ago

by Scott Preston, Apress

You have a great idea for a simple mobile web app. Or, you have a great idea for a complicated mobile web app. Either way, Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS will help you build, fine-tune, and publish your app for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Scott Preston will walk you through building a mobile web app from scratch using real-world examples. You'll learn about design considerations, mobile web frameworks, and HTML5 features like animation and graphics using Canvas.
Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 (Professional Apress)

Published 8 years ago

by Adam Freeman, Steve Sanderson, Apress

The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET.ASP.NET MVC 4 contains a number of significant advances over previous versions. New mobile and desktop templates (employing adaptive rendering) are included together with support for jQuery Mobile for the first time.
Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012

Published 8 years ago

by Jason Strate, Ted Krueger, Apress

Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 is a deep dive into perhaps the single-most important facet of good performance: indices, and how to best use them. The book begins in the shallow waters with explanations of the types of indices and how they are stored in databases. Moving deeper into the topic, and further into the book, you will look at the statistics that are accumulated both by indices and on indices.
Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012

Published 8 years ago

by Alastair Aitchison, Apress

Microsoft SQL Server implements extensive support for location-based data. Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012 introduces SQL Server’s spatial feature set, and covers everything you'll need to know to store, manipulate, and analyze information about the physical location of objects in space. You’ll learn about the geography and geometry datatypes, and how to apply them in practical situations involving the spatial relationships of people, places, and things on Earth.
Cracking SJPP: A Comprehensive Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification Study Guide

Published 8 years ago

by Mala Gupta, Ganesh Samarthyam, Apress

Cracking the Sun Java Programmer Plus (SJPP) certification exam is not an easy task. But the difficult search for a comprehensive, yet concise study guide ends here. This book walks step-by-step through programming techniques and solutions designed to prepare you for the exam, providing the knowledge and confidence that is necessary for success.Cracking SJPP equips the reader for SJPP certification through a hands-on presentation of the complete objectives of the exam.
Decompiling Android

Published 8 years ago

by Godfrey Nolan, Apress

Decompiling Android looks at the the reason why Android apps can be decompiled to recover their source code, what it means to Android developers and how you can protect your code from prying eyes. This is also a good way to see how good and bad Android apps are constructed and how to learn from them in building your own apps.
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# (Beginning Apress)

Published 8 years ago

by Matthew MacDonald, Apress

This book is the most comprehensive and up to date introduction to ASP.NET ever written. Focussing solely on C#, with no code samples duplicated in other languages, award winning author Matthew MacDonald introduces you to the very latest thinking and best practices for the ASP.NET 4.5 technology.Assuming no prior coding experience, you'll be taught everything you need to know from the ground up.
Pro Spring MVC (Professional Apress)

Published 8 years ago

by Marten Deinum, Koen Serneels, Colin Yates, Seth Ladd, Apress

Pro Spring MVC provides in-depth coverage of Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow, two highly customizable and powerful web frameworks brought to you by the developers and community of the Spring Framework.Spring MVC is a modern web application framework built upon the Spring Framework, and Spring Web Flow is a project that complements Spring MVC for building reusable web controller modules that encapsulate rich page navigation rules.
Pro NuGet (Professional Apress)

Published 8 years ago

by Maarten Balliauw, Xavier Decoster, Apress

Have you ever been to a place called dependency hell? Every dependency added to your software product is a potential increase in risk and needs proper management, especially if you do not own or have no control over one or any of the dependencies you're relying on.Pro NuGet will help you gain a solid architectural understanding of how to manage software dependencies using NuGet, an open-source package management tool for the .NET Framework.
Pro Spring 3

Published 9 years ago

by Clarence Ho, Rob Harrop, Apress

The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy/Grails, iBATIS, and more. Spring now also works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well.
Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Published 9 years ago

by Francis Rodrigues, Michael Coles, Apress

Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services teaches how to take advantage of the powerful extract, transform, and load (ETL) platform included with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You’ll learn to build scalable, robust, performance-driven enterprise ETL solutions that save time and make money for your company. You'll learn to avoid common ETL development pitfalls and how to extend the power of your ETL solutions to include virtually any possible transformation on data from any conceivable source.
Beginning Windows Phone App Development

Published 9 years ago

by Henry Lee, Eugene Chuvyrov, Apress

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community.Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you’ll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform.
PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA

Published 9 years ago

by David Kurtz, Apress

PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA, Second Edition stands on the boundary between the PeopleSoft application and the Oracle database. This new edition of David Kurtz's book is freshly revised, showing how to tame the beast and manage Oracle successfully in a PeopleSoft environment.You’ll learn about PeopleSoft’s Internet architecture and its use of Oracle’s Tuxedo Application Server.
Beginning Web Applications: With HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Published 9 years ago

by Robert Diana, Apress

Beginning Web Applications With HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows how to use the new web standards to create rich applications that go beyond what previous technologies allowed. By following the examples in the book, you will learn how to use these new standards in real-world applications, instead of just reading a dry reference manual. These real-life uses of the new HTML tags, WebSockets, and Canvas give you the foundation you'll need to build larger applications of your own.
Java 7 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Published 9 years ago

by Josh Juneau, Carl Dea, Freddy Guime, John OConner, Apress

Java 7 Recipes offers solutions to common programming problems encountered every day while developing Java-based applications. Fully updated with the newest features and techniques available, Java 7 Recipes provides code examples involving Servlets, Java FX 2.0, XML, Java Swing, and much more. Content is presented in the popular problem-solution format: Look up the programming problem that you want to solve. Read the solution. Apply the solution directly in your own code. Problem solved!