Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook. Build user-friendly apps, troubleshoot challenges, and navigate the evolving Power Apps landscape - Third Edition

Eickhel Mendoza

In the rapidly evolving world of low-code development, Microsoft Power Apps stands out as a powerful platform for building custom business solutions. Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 3rd Edition, is your hands-on guide to mastering this platform. Through a collection of step-by-step recipes, this updated edition helps you navigate the latest features, such as AI-powered Microsoft Copilot and custom UI elements while empowering you to build efficient and scalable apps.This book emphasizes practical solutions, guiding app makers through building everything from canvas apps to complex data integrations. You will learn how to streamline repetitive tasks using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and explore how to create external-facing websites using Microsoft Power Pages while handling data management with Dataverse and extending app functionality with the Power Apps Component Framework.Whether you're extending your app's capabilities with custom components or integrating advanced AI features, Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook equips you with the knowledge and skills to take your app development to the next level.

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL. BPMN and BPEL - Go from Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture with this book and

Matjaz B. Juric, Kapil Pant, Matjaz B Juric

Infosec Strategies and Best Practices. Gain proficiency in information security using expert-level strategies and best practices

Joseph MacMillan

Information security and risk management best practices enable professionals to plan, implement, measure, and test their organization's systems and ensure that they're adequately protected against threats.The book starts by helping you to understand the core principles of information security, why risk management is important, and how you can drive information security governance. You'll then explore methods for implementing security controls to achieve the organization's information security goals. As you make progress, you'll get to grips with design principles that can be utilized along with methods to assess and mitigate architectural vulnerabilities. The book will also help you to discover best practices for designing secure network architectures and controlling and managing third-party identity services. Finally, you will learn about designing and managing security testing processes, along with ways in which you can improve software security.By the end of this infosec book, you'll have learned how to make your organization less vulnerable to threats and reduce the likelihood and impact of exploitation. As a result, you will be able to make an impactful change in your organization toward a higher level of information security.

BeagleBone for Secret Agents. Browse anonymously, communicate secretly, and create custom security solutions with open source software, the BeagleBone Black, and cryptographic hardware

Joshua Datko

Learning Object-Oriented Programming. Explore and crack the OOP code in Python, JavaScript, and C#

Gaston C. Hillar

CryENGINE 3 Game Development: Beginner's Guide. Discover how to use the CryENGINE 3 free SDK, the next-generation, real-time game development tool with this book and

Sean Tracy, Paul Reindell, Sean P Tracy (USD)

CryENGINE is a complete game development environment used by AAA game development studio Crytek to produce blockbuster games such as Crysis 1, 2 and 3. This complete Beginner's Guide takes the would be game developer through the steps required to create a game world complete with event scripting, user interface and 3D environment in the free CryENGINE SDK. Learn to create game worlds with the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like the soon to be released Crysis 3. Follow straightforward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, script with Lua and code with C++. Learn to navigate the interface within the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, the tool used to create AAA games like Crysis 1 and 2, as well as the soon to be released Crysis 3. Learn to create your own worlds by following straight forward examples to sculpt the terrain, place vegetation, set up lighting, create game sounds, and script with the Lua language. The book covers all beginner aspects of game development including an introduction to C++ for non- coders.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook. Over 70 clear and incredibly effective recipes to get the most out of the many tools and features of ASP.NET MVC framework

Andrew Siemer, Richard Kimber, Richard J Kimber

ASP.NET MVC, one of the latest web development platforms from Microsoft, brings the power of MVC programming to ASP.NET development. It simplifies the task of application development and maintenance for developers. However, ASP.NET MVC is filled with so many features that developers end up looking for solutions to the many problems that are encountered in their routine development tasks.ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook will provide solutions for the very specific problems that are encountered while developing applications with the ASP.NET MVC platform. It consists of many recipes containing step-by-step instructions that guide developers to effectively use the wide array of tools and features of ASP.NET MVC platform for web development ASP.NET MVC Cookbook is a collection of recipes that will help you to perform your routine development tasks with ease using the ASP.NET MVC platform. In this book you will be walked through the solution to several specific web application development problems. Each recipe will walk you through the creation of a web application, setting up any Visual Studio project requirements, adding in any external tools, and finally the programming steps needed to solve the problem. The focus of the book is to describe the solution from start to finish.The book starts off with recipes that demonstrate how to work effectively with views and controllers – two of the most important ingredients of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It then gradually moves on to cover many advanced routing techniques. Considering the importance of having a consistent structure to the site, the book contains recipes to show how to build a consistent UI and control its look with master pages. It also contains a chapter that is packed with many recipes that demonstrate how to gain control of data within a view.As the book progresses through some exciting recipes on performing complex tasks with forms, you will discover how easy it is to work with forms to jazz up the look of your web site. Building large applications with ease is one of the prime features of the MVC model. Therefore, this book also focuses on tools and features that make building large applications easier to manage. As data plays an important role in the MVC architecture, there are ample recipes dedicated to cover data validation, access, and storage techniques. Finally, the book demonstrates how to enhance the user experience of your visitors by controlling the data at the application, session, caching, and cookie level.By the end of this book, you will have explored a wide array of tools and features available with the ASP.NET MVC platform

Building Slack Bots. Create powerful, useful, fast, and fun chat bots that make Slack better

Paul Asjes

Slack promises that its users will be less busy. Slack bots interact with users in Slack chatrooms, providing useful immediate information, and automating work. This book gives you everything you need to build powerful and useful Slack bots. You’ll see how to hook into the Slack API to create software that can read and post to chatrooms, respond to commands and hints given in natural conversational language, and build fun and useful bots for your own place of work, both as a front end to your own service and to distribute and share as apps. You can even sell your bots and build a business as a Slack bot developer.Throughout the book, you’ll build useful and fun example applications that you can modify for your own situations. These range from simple, fun applications to liven up discussions to useful, data-driven apps to help you make decisions quickly and manage work.