Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-482—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of building Windows Store apps with HTML5 and JavaScript. Designed for experienced developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSD level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Develop Windows Store apps
• Discover and interact with devices
• Program user interaction
• Enhance the user interface
• Manage data and security
• Prepare for a solution deployment

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives.
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.

Roberto Brunetti is an experienced consultant, trainer, and author of enterprise applications. He is a founder of DevLeap, a company focused on providing high-value content and consulting services to professional developers, and the author of a book on ASP.NET and two on Windows Azure. He has spoken regularly at major conferences since 1996, and works closely with Microsoft for events and training courses. Vanni Boncinelli is a consultant and author on .NET technologies. Since 2010, he has been working with the DevLeap team, developing several enterprise applications based on Microsoft technologies. Vanni has authored many articles for Italian editors on XNA and game development, Windows Phone, and, since the first beta version in 2011, Windows 8. He also worked on Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic Step by Step for Microsoft Press.

• Introduction
• Preparing for the exam
• Chapter 1: Develop Windows Store apps
• Chapter 2: Discover and interact with devices
• Chapter 3: Program user interaction
• Chapter 4: Enhance the user interface
• Chapter 5: Manage data and security
• Chapter 6: Prepare for a solution deployment
• About the Authors