This book is about OData and Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the use of OData, and explain its importance. OData is a protocol used to expose and consume data over the web. It uses a common REST-like (representational state transfer) interface to communicate, rather than the usual pre-defined application specific interfaces used by traditional web services. Visual Studio LightSwitch is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create 'forms over data, line of business applications'. It allows you to build applications for...

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications and build applications for the desktop and the internet cloud by providing a tool that allows you to quickly and easily define and connect to your data, program your security and business rules, expose this via OData to practically any 'client' such as mobile devices and web pages. This book will demonstrate its use, explain, and provide examples of important concepts of its API (Application Programming Interface). Over the past year I have...

This book covers using Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 to create LightSwitch HTML Client, and Cloud Business Applications. This book describes creating HTML web applications and SharePoint 2013 provider-hosted applications. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the use and provide examples of, and to explain, important concepts of the LightSwitch technology used to create the applications. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications. It allows you to build applications for the...

This book covers using Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013-2015 to create LightSwitch HTML Client, and Cloud Business Applications. This book describes creating HTML web applications and SharePoint 2013 provider-hosted applications. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the use and provide examples of, and to explain, important concepts of the LightSwitch technology used to create the applications. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications. It allows you to build applications for the...

The Microsoft Bot Framework allows you to easily create Bots. This book covers using Visual Studio 2015 to create Chatbots using the Microsoft Bot Framework. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, provide examples of, and to explain important concepts of the technology. You can create bots that interact with your users naturally wherever they are, including Facebook, text, Skype, Office 365 email, and other popular services. Chapter 1: Understanding the Microsoft Bot Framework Chapter 2: Create a Hello World Bot Chapter 3: Using FormFlow Chapter 4: Using Dialogs Chapter 5: Using Images,...

Creating predictive models is no longer relegated to data scientists when you use tools such as the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio. Azure Machine Learning Studio is a web browser-based application that allows you to create and deploy predictive models as web services that can be consumed by custom applications and other tools such as Microsoft Excel. With this book, you will learn how to create predictive experiments, operationalize them using Excel and Angular .Net Core applications, and create retraining programs to improve predictive results. Table of Contents Chapter 1: The...