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Learn how to use the Xamarin.Auth library to authenticate mobile users and restrict or allow access to resources and functionality in your C# applications. This course reviews the components involved in authentication, including identity providers, OAuth, tokens, and claims, and then dives straight into working with Xamarin.Auth, from installing the necessary packages to authenticating and storing user credentials. Then learn how to centralize claims with an identity management service such as Azure Active Directory B2C, and access claims from authentication tokens in order to authorize users and personalize the user experience in your apps.

Xamarin is a cross-platform development tool. It solves dilemmas many developers face when developing cross-platform apps: separate coding languages and UI paradigms. With Xamarin, you can use C# for iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps. And with Xamarin Forms, interface design for all three platforms can be accomplished within its XAML-based framework.

In this course, Walt Ritscher helps develop a sample app for each of the three platforms using Visual Studio and the IDEs in Xamarin (including Xamarin Studio). He touches on the processes that make Android, iOS, and Windows app development unique. Then he shows how to recreate the three apps as a single cross-platform app, and test and debug the app using Xamarin's powerful emulators. He also covers UI design with Xamarin Forms, the data binding engine that automatically syncs data between views and data sources, and pages, Xamarin's templates for content, navigation, tabbed, carousel, and master pages.

Learn how to create your first app using Xamarin, a cross-platform development solution that helps simplifies the development process by letting developers use C# to create iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps. Matt Milner starts the course by walking through the setup process. Then, he demonstrates how to develop remotely and leverage libraries. Next, he goes through how to provision devices and test applications on real and simulated hardware. He also covers how to apply layouts, create views, and more.

Learn how to create your first app using Xamarin, a cross-platform development solution that helps simplifies the development process by letting developers use C# to create iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps. Matt Milner starts the course by walking through the setup process. Then, he demonstrates how to develop remotely and leverage libraries. Next, he goes through how to provision devices and test applications on real and simulated hardware. He also covers how to apply layouts, create views, and more.

You can create the interfaces for your Xamarin applications in code, but another approach is to create the UI declaratively using XAML. In this course, the instructors from Xamarin University help you explore the XAML support in Xamarin.Forms. Learn how to create pages, add controls, program behavior, and even change property values in a device-specific fashion. Plus, find out how to reuse XAML views for maximum coding efficiency.

This course was created by Xamarin University. We are honored to host this training in our library.

Explore the major features of Xcode, the integrated development environment for developers of OS X, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. This IDE has been popular since the first release, but more and more developers are discovering how Xcode makes for an easier and more efficient development workflow. And, with Xcode 7, it now supports Swift 2.0.

This Xcode tutorial helps new iOS and OS X developers install Xcode and start writing and editing code. Author Todd Perkins also reviews the version control and storyboard features, as well as the basics of Interface Builder, Xcode's intuitive UI design tool. Plus, learn how to compile and debug apps, test apps in the iOS Simulator, and send your app to Apple to be published in one of its app stores.

Xcode 8 is the official integrated development environment for developers of macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. This IDE has been popular since the first release, but more and more developers are discovering how Xcode makes for an easier and more efficient workflow.

These Xcode tutorials help new developers install Xcode and start writing and editing code. Instructor Todd Perkins shows how to build a brand-new user interface (UI) with buttons and menus in Interface Builder, Xcode's intuitive UI design tool, as well as advanced designs that adapt to screen size, aspect ratio, and orientation changes. He reviews the version control and storyboard features, as well as the basics of schemes and behaviors. Plus, learn how to compile and debug apps, test apps in the iOS Simulator, and send your app to Apple for distribution in the App Store.

Xcode is the official IDE for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. This tool has been popular since the first release, but Xcode 9 delivers an even easier and more efficient workflow. Follow along with instructor Todd Perkins to learn how to build your own apps with Xcode 9.

First, learn how to install Xcode and create a new project. Then find out how to edit code; leverage helpful features like the Assistant Editor, playgrounds, and snippets; and integrate version control with GitHub. Discover how to use Interface Builder, Xcode's intuitive UI design tool, to design a responsive interface that adapts to screen size, aspect ratio, and orientation changes. Todd also shows how to map application flow with storyboards, and reviews the basics of schemes and behaviors. Plus, learn how to compile and debug your code, test apps in the iOS Simulator, and submit apps for publication in the App Store directly from Xcode 9.

Bugs and performance issues inevitably come up during coding. Xcode 9 has some great new tools for finding and fixing these issues. In this course, learn how to leverage the new Xcode developer tools to enhance your debugging workflow. First, learn what's new in Xcode 9, including refactoring tools like fix-its, wireless debugging, GitHub integration, and multiple concurrent simulators. Instructor Jon Bott also covers auditing your app for accessibility, determining the location of memory issues, and troubleshooting performance issues with threads. Plus, he explains how to debug view hierarchies to solve UI issues during runtime, and how to discover memory leaks.

Bugs and performance issues inevitably come up during coding, and Xcode 8 has provided some great new tools for finding and fixing these issues. In this course, learn how to leverage the new Xcode developer tools to enhance your debugging workflow. Instructor Jon Bott covers auditing your app for accessibility, determining the location of memory issues, and troubleshooting performance issues with threads. Plus, he explains how to debug view hierarchies to solve UI issues during runtime, and how to discover memory leaks.

By encouraging smaller, more frequent merges, continuous integration can help make it easier for you and your team to merge feature branches into your main branch. Xcode Server—a service provided by OS X Server—can also play a part in this process. In this course, learn how continuous integration and Xcode Server can help you streamline your development workflow. Learn how to install and set up Xcode Server, create a bot for your project, download build artifacts, and more.

In XHTML and HTML Essential Training, Bill Weinman helps designers and coders understand XHTML and HTML. In the process, Bill covers document structure, block and inline-level tags, floating images, controlling white space, phrase and font markup, and tables and frames. He even provides a good introduction to CSS. Bill offers step-by-step guidance for building a complete working web site. Exercise files accompany the course.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) was designed to make information sharing and data interpretation easier. Having a solid grasp of what XML is and how to work with it is essential for any developer. In this course, Joe Marini takes you through the basic rules of XML, explains its syntax, and covers more advanced topics such as styling your XML with CSS and manipulating XML content using XPath and XSLT. From integrating XML into your site to using document type definitions and XML schema, this course covers what you need to know to not only get started with XML, but also master it.

X-Particles is an awesome addition to CINEMA 4D, allowing artists to create finely rendered fluid simulations, dynamics, and collisions quickly and easily. This course gets you started with this powerful plugin. Join Andy Needham as he walks through the Emitter interface, shows how to use modifiers to change the look and behavior of particles, create visible particles that trail and branch, make fluid and fire simulations, and render your work. He'll also provide workflow tips and a series of miniprojects that show how to create effects like pixie dust and fireworks with X-Particles.

X-Particles 4 is a stellar addition to Cinema 4D, allowing artists to quickly and easily create finely rendered fluid simulations, dynamics, and collisions. This course gets you started with this powerful plugin. Join Andy Needham as he walks through the Emitter interface, and shows how to use modifiers to change the look and behavior of particles. Andy demonstrates how to create visible particles, make fluid and fire simulations, and render your work. He also covers additional ways to sculpt particles, and shares helpful tips for enhancing your workflow.

This tutorial covers how to customize your XSEDE environment to meet your specific usage and application development needs. Learn how to display your environment settings and customize your computing environment using UNIX commands and the Modules package.

This course will enable XSEDE users to manage their account in a manner that protects the security of XSEDE resources.

Yammer is an enterprise social network for businesses to get work done smarter and faster. It's built by Microsoft but powered by employees like you. In this course, Gini von Courter takes you through all the essential features of Yammer 2016. Learn how Yammer works, and find out how to join or create a Yammer network at your organization. Communicate with posts, messages, and chat; collaborate on files; and create and administer groups. Plus, learn how to get and give feedback with polls and praise. Start now and find out how to foster the kind of collaboration that makes a positive impact on productivity with Yammer.

Yammer is an enterprise social network for businesses to get work done smarter and faster. It's built by Microsoft but powered by employees like you. In this course, Gini von Courter takes you through all the essential features of Yammer 2018. Learn how Yammer works and find out how to join or create a Yammer network at your organization. Discover how to communicate with colleagues using posts, messages, and chat; collaborate on files; and create and administer groups. Plus, find out how to get and give feedback with polls and praise.

Yo Santosa took a big leap when she decided to quit her job as a motion graphics artist. But her fledgling design agency, Ferroconcrete, has gone on to create award-winning branding campaigns for companies like Pinkberry, TNT, and TBS. As Yo explains it, there are parallels. Branding, like film, is about storytelling. But instead of telling a story over a few minutes or hours, a brand's story is told over a period of months, years, or even decades.

In this Creative Spark, Yo explains how her team maps the personality of a brand, creates messaging and imagery that support it, and helps clients earn the love and loyalty of their customers. See how this played out for Pinkberry, which under Ferroconcrete's guidance evolved from a single storefront to a nationally recognized name. Yo's team also introduces its fragrance line, Commodity, a project they started to gain firsthand experience building a product alongside the brand. Plus, get a glimpse of the uniquely collaborative design team hard at work in their downtown LA offices.

ZBrush combines 3D modeling, texturing, and painting into one digital sculpting workflow. As such, it has dozens of features to master, and the 2018 edition adds the Sculptris Pro mode, new deformers, a polygroup generation tool, and more. If you're a beginner, this course is the best introduction you can get. Instructor Ryan Kittleson helps digital artists—and those who are simply new to ZBrush—to learn all the essential tools and techniques. He shows how to create basics forms with meshes, sculpt details with brushes, paint and texture your models, and render the results—using the same professional pipeline you would for real-world projects. Follow along and learn how to use ZBrush to build the wildest 3D creations you can imagine.

ZBrush combines 3D modeling, texturing, and painting into one digital sculpting workflow. As such, it has dozens of features to master, and the 2018 edition adds the Sculptris Pro mode, new deformers, a polygroup generation tool, and more. If you're a beginner, this course is the best introduction you can get. Instructor Ryan Kittleson helps digital artists—and those who are simply new to ZBrush—to learn all the essential tools and techniques. He shows how to create basics forms with meshes, sculpt details with brushes, paint and texture your models, and render the results—using the same professional pipeline you would for real-world projects. Follow along and learn how to use ZBrush to build the wildest 3D creations you can imagine.

Prepare your models for 3D printing with ZBrush, the popular program for 3D modeling and digital sculpting. Learn how to measure your models with real world units, so everything prints at the right size; save on material costs by hollowing out your models; and make sure your colors print true. Author/artist/3D aficionado Ryan Kittleson also shares some advanced tips and tricks for getting the best results from your particular printer.

This course was created by Ryan Kittleson. We're honored to host this training in our library.

In ZBrush 4 Essential Training, Ryan Kittleson introduces ZBrush to artists making a transition from another sculpting program or who may just need some help with the finer points of this powerful digital arts package. The course covers the most popular tools and techniques for digital painting and sculpting in ZBrush, and explains how to export the models and texture maps to other programs for use in games, film, fine art, or 3D printing. The course also highlights the new features in ZBrush 4, such as ShadowBox, clip brushes, and LightBox. Exercise files are included with the course.

ZBrush 4R8 adds several powerful new features that make the process of creating digital art faster than ever. Gizmo 3D provides new ways to move, rotate, and scale models. The enhanced ZModeler brush gives you greater freedom for polygonal modeling, including extremely low-res modeling. Live Boolean mode lets you add, subtract, and overlay objects in real time, while some of the smaller new features—straight line strokes, inverse masks, and the vector displacement map brush—make drawing and sculpting in ZBrush even better. Watch this course to learn the basics of how the new features work and get professional results with them every time.