Foreword

Now is an exciting time to be a developer for the Microsoft platform. Cloud-based technologies such as Office 365 offer businesses a way to contain their IT costs and focus on what they do best. That means there will be more opportunities to develop targeted solutions for those businesses that help them to be more effective and more competitive. And with the rapid adoption of mobile devices and an invitation to a broader developer base by emphasizing client-side technologies such as HTML and jQuery, it’s now easier than ever to develop solutions at a relatively low cost that can be marketed to a broader range of customers than in the past. That’s exciting!

With that said, an important aspect of developing for the cloud is gaining a ...

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