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Online Courses
Creating a Teams App Using the Microsoft Bot Framework
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
This course will teach you how to leverage the magnitude of Microsoft Teams by designing, developing, and deploying an app to Microsoft Teams and utilizing the Microsoft Bot Framework.
Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Bing Custom Search API
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
Learn to understand, configure, and utilize Bing Custom Search APIs. You will learn what kind of data it accepts and sends, how to utilize C# code to interact with it, and what features it offers.
Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Speaker Recognition and Bing Speech API
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
Move forward with your overall understanding of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Suite with this foundational course on Speaker Recognition and Bing Speech API.
Microsoft Cognitive Services: Text Analytics API
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
In this course you will gain a foundational knowledge of the Text Analytics API that will help you move forward with your overall understanding of the Microsoft Cognitive Services Suite.
Getting Started with Building Bots with Microsoft’s Bot Framework
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
This course is an introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework, which is a new centralized framework that is meant to allow developers to create, edit, and deploy Chatbots quickly and easily.
iOS Unit Testing with XCTest
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
This course walks you through the fundamentals of iOS Unit Testing using the XCTest framework.
SQL Server 2016 New Features for Developers
INSTRUCTOR: LEONARD LOBEL
This course teaches the new developer features in SQL Server 2016, including Drop If Exists (DIE), SESSION_CONTEXT, dynamic data masking (DDM), row-level security (RLS), Always Encrypted, stretch database, temporal data, and built-in JSON support.
iOS Debugging in Xcode
INSTRUCTOR: MATT KRUCZEK
This course covers iOS Debugging in detail using the Xcode IDE. You’ll also learn several advanced tips and tricks that can help you jump start your debugging experience.
Introduction to Azure DocumentDB
INSTRUCTOR: LEONARD LOBEL
This course teaches Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s NoSQL database that works with schema-free JSON documents, uses a SQL grammar for querying, and supports a server-side programming environment for stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions.
Publications
AUTHOR: BEN DEWEY
Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2017
Learn how to build web applications from three Microsoft MVPs!
With the release of .NET Core and Visual Studio 2017, you can now deploy applications to multiple operating systems. And with the rising popularity of JavaScript UI frameworks, you can choose whether to stay with ASP.NET Core MVC or use a JavaScript framework.
This insightful guide provides .NET web developers with a mechanism to compare and contrast several frameworks and select the best one for your needs. PURCHASE
AUTHOR: LEONARD LOBEL
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Step by Step
Your hands-on guide to Azure SQL Database fundamentals
Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure SQL Database. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Azure, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques. PURCHASE