Learn how to give your WPF applications a "modern" or "Metro" look and feel with the help of the open source library MahApps.Metro.

Learn how to build a complete Windows Store app in 20 lessons, leveraging most of Windows 8's key capabililites. This course takes the learner through a complete and in-depth lap around building a Windows 8 Store app. Areas covered include planning an app, designing and creating a store-ready user experience, handling the application lifecycle and hooking into key Windows integration mechanisms, accessing data in the cloud, downloading files and performing work in the background, working with live tiles and toast notifications, interacting with a custom cloud service, and more. By the end of this course, you should be proficient in the platform and ready to build or improve your own apps.

This course is the second in a Learning Path of six that covers the CompTIA Network+ certification exam. This course covers every objective in CompTIA Network+ (N10-006) domain 1.0, Network Architecture. The student learns the basic building blocks of Ethernet networks and emerges with an excellent, well-rounded understanding of computer networking fundamentals.

This course introduces you to WebSphere® Application Server and provides you everything you need to get started.

In this course, we will take an in-depth look at the collection types available in PL/SQL, namely Associative Arrays, Varrays, and Nested Tables. We'll also talk about the bulk fetch and collect features which greatly enhance the performance our PL/SQL code.

This course covers the essentials of SVG, including what they are, how to create them, how to use them, common elements, sprites, animation, and more.

Delivering database changes pose a unique set of challenges that force many to treat database changes as a second class citizen when releasing software. In this course, you'll learn how to use Flyway to version changes to a MySQL database. You'll also learn how to leverage versioned changes from your code repository to get early feedback about potential problems, including how to simulate a production database update every time someone checks in a database change.

In this Play by Play, Mark Minasi delivers an adapted version of his highly-rated presentation on Windows Clustering.

Visual Studio 2012 is an integrated development environment you can use to create applications and libraries with many different frameworks and languages. It has a rich feature set including an intelligent editor, built in compiler (and related tools) and context sensitive help. This course covers basic concepts like projects and solutions, shows you how to make Visual Studio look and work the way you want it to, and demonstrates how to use the most popular tool windows and dialogs. When you've completed it, you'll know how to use the tool itself and can focus on a specific language or framework as your next step. You may want to take Part 2 of this course, which covers visual designers for your GUI, debugging, and extensions to Visual Studio.