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Learn about pure functions and why they should be your weapon of choice when writing code for parallel and, more generally, concurrent execution.

Understand the limitations and problems with the existing approaches to IoT that do not prioritize an open, universal, and simple application layer protocol for devices.

Chapter 2 of "Introduction to Mono for Android" starts with an overview of Mono and then moves to a discussion of Mono for Android, configuring the development stack, and developing and deploying a “Hello Mono for Android” application -- first to an emulator and then to your Android-based phone.

The fact that SQL Azure is inherently multitenant, and needs to share physical resources among all clients of the service underlies many of the feature differences between SQL Server and SQL Azure; although, a tremendous overlap exists in functionality and compatibility between the two. Read on to learn more.

Take a look at the various features of Visual Studio for working with WPF.

Check-in policies help enforce your organization's development methodology and ensure that the code being checked in passes the necessary quality requirements. In addition to using the pre-defined check-in policies, you can create custom ones.