On Sale Now: 2019 - May/June

In our feature article this month Wei-Meng Lee introduces Google’s Cloud Firestore NoSQL document database. Also, beginners learn the basics of A.I., WPF developers are introduced to the message broker class, John Petersen discusses working with immutable objects in C#, Brian Noyes shares how to create embedded reports in web applications with Power BI Embedded and much, much more. Enjoy!

Articles in this issue:

• Decades of Thanks
  Rod reflects with gratitude on lessons he learned when he first started consulting.
• AI for Absolute Beginners
  If you’ve been thinking that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are a bit out of your league, think again. Sahil shows that you’re already using and benefiting from it, and you can create it too.
• A Design Pattern for Building WPF Business Applications: Part 1
  Paul begins a new series of articles on how to create a WPF business application. This first one teaches how to use a message broker to eliminate strong coupling between classes, how to display status and information to the user while resources are loading, and how to load user controls onto a single window while aggregating controls and building a large screen.
• Immutability in C#
  If your application uses multi-threading, immutability should be part of it. John covers how to enforce and work with immutable objects, despite C#’s lack of native support for them.
• Five PowerShell cmdlets for Beginners
  The sheer number of PowerShell cmdlets that come straight out of the box with Microsoft products these days can be bewildering. Dan provides a handy guide to the most important ones.
• Creating Embedded Reports in Your Web Apps with Power BI Embedded
  Brian shows you that Power BI Embedded makes it possible to have great visuals as part of your app. He also helps you figure out which of the many flavors is the right one for you.
• Introduction to Cloud Firestore
  You probably need to persist data and store it on a database server for synchronization purposes. Wei-Meng shows you how to use Google’s Cloud Firestore so you can get on to the more fun parts of building an application.
• Synchronizing Databases Using Microsoft Sync Framework
  If you’ve got multiple data stores, you have to keep them synced or you’ve got trouble on your hands. Joydip makes it look easy using Sync Framework.
• Using JetBrains Rider to Develop ASP.NET Core Applications on Docker
  Maarten explores containers, especially in regard to an ASP.NET Core application, and uses JetBrains Rider as an IDE to build and debug apps in a Docker container.
• On Effective Executives
  Ted looks at what makes the difference between a good leader and a great one.

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