eBook Details:

• Paperback: 1104 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; 1st edition (November 20, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1118337700
• ISBN-13: 978-1118337707

eBook Description:

Professional Visual Studio 2012

• Offers programmers a fast way to IDE-centric programming success
• Demonstrates new IDE features, including the new Metro style app project templates and Windows 8 app store features
• Explains each feature, then illustrates the context in which it will help you solve problems
• Covers timely and essential topics related to rich client app development, web applications, application services, file configuration, debugging and testing, and more
• Helps advanced users customize and extend Visual Studio through the Automation Model, writing macros, working with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), and more
• Provides ample detail for programmers who are new to Visual Studio 2012, as well as for experienced programmers exploring the advanced capabilities of the IDE

This expert Wrox guide is exactly what you need to get up and running quickly with Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the exciting features of the integrated development environment (IDE) —such as code snippets, refactoring, and patterns—while also showing you how to maximize all the latest tools and significant improvements to the technology. The in-depth coverage as well as numerous illustrative examples go a long way to get you up to speed so you can start using Visual Studio 2012 right away.

The ultimate developers’ guide to Visual Studio 2012

This expert Wrox guide is what you need to get up and running quickly on Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the integrated development environment (IDE), showing you how to maximize all new tools and improvements.

• Offers programmers a fast way to IDE-centric programming success
• Demonstrates new IDE features, including the new Metro style app project templates and Windows 8 app store features
• Explains each feature, then illustrates the context in which it will help you solve problems
• Covers timely and essential topics related to rich client app development, web applications, application services, file configuration, debugging and testing, and more
• Helps advanced users customize and extend Visual Studio through the Automation Model, writing macros, working with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), and more
• Provides ample detail for programmers who are new to Visual Studio 2012, as well as for experienced programmers exploring the advanced capabilities of the IDE

Professional Visual Studio 2012 uses a unique, IDE-centric approach to help you get up and running quickly on this exciting new release.

Get savvy with Visual Studio 2012

This expert Wrox guide is exactly what you need to get up and running quickly with Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the exciting features of the integrated development environment (IDE)— such as code snippets, refactoring, and patterns—while also showing you how to maximize all the latest tools and significant improvements to the technology. The in-depth coverage as well as numerous illustrative examples go a long way to get you up to speed so you can start using Visual Studio 2012 right away.

Professional Visual Studio 2012:

• Explains how to use the class designer, server explorer, IntelliSense, and bookmarks
• Takes a thorough look at unit testing, documentation with XML comments, code tools, and language-specific features
• Explores ASP.NET applications (including MVC 4), Office business applications, and Windows Store applications
• Addresses a wide variety of data resources, such as visual database tools, datasets and databinding, and more
• Demonstrates how to use the debugging windows, debug with breakpoints, and advanced debugging techniques
• Highlights customizing and extending Visual Studio

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Professional Visual Studio 2012: The ultimate developers’ guide to Visual Studio 2012

This expert Wrox guide is what you need to get up and running quickly on Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the integrated development environment (IDE), showing you how to maximize all new tools and improvements.

Professional Visual Studio 2012: Get savvy with Visual Studio 2012

This expert Wrox guide is exactly what you need to get up and running quickly with Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the exciting features of the integrated development environment (IDE) —such as code snippets, refactoring, and patterns—while also showing you how to maximize all the latest tools and significant improvements to the technology. The in-depth coverage as well as numerous illustrative examples go a long way to get you up to speed so you can start using Visual Studio 2012 right away.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; 1st edition (September 19, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1118314085
• ISBN-13: 978-1118314081

eBook Description:

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012

Focused on the latest release of Visual Studio, this edition shows you how to use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 to streamline software design, development, and testing. Divided into six main parts, this timely and authoritative title covers Team Foundation Server, stakeholder engagement, project management, architecture, software development, and testing. Whether serving as a step-by-step guide or a reference for designing software solutions, this book offers a nuts-and-bolts approach to using Microsoft’s flagship development tools to solve real-world challenges throughout the application lifecycle.

Focused on the latest release of Visual Studio, this edition shows you how to use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 to streamline software design, development, and testing. Divided into six main parts, this timely and authoritative title covers Team Foundation Server, stakeholder engagement, project management, architecture, software development, and testing. Whether serving as a step-by-step guide or a reference for designing software solutions, this book offers a nuts-and-bolts approach to using Microsoft’s flagship development tools to solve real-world challenges throughout the application lifecycle.

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading reference book on ALM.

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Use ALM to solve real-world challenges

Focused on the latest release of Visual Studio, this edition shows you how to use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 to streamline software design, development, and testing. Divided into six main parts, this timely and authoritative title covers Team Foundation Server, stakeholder engagement, project management, architecture, software development, and testing. Whether serving as a step-by-step guide or a reference for designing software solutions, this book offers a nuts-and-bolts approach to using Microsoft’s flagship development tools to solve real-world challenges throughout the application lifecycle.

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012:

• Includes practical examples that demonstrate the capabilities of each of the ALM tools available in Visual Studio 2012
• Covers developing, debugging, and testing applications with tools such as Visual Studio, Microsoft Test Manager, lab management, and IntelliTrace
• Explains how to use Team Foundation Server 2012 for version control, project management, test case management, and feedback collection
• Provides pragmatic tutorials for the entire team including developers, project managers, testers, architects, business managers, and external stakeholders

The authoritative and timely guide to ALM from Microsoft insiders and MVPs

Focused on the latest release of Visual Studio, this edition shows you how to use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 to streamline software design, development, and testing. Divided into six main parts, this timely and authoritative title covers Team Foundation Server, stakeholder engagement, project management, architecture, software development, and testing. Whether serving as a step-by-step guide or a reference for designing software solutions, this book offers a nuts-and-bolts approach to using Microsoft’s flagship development tools to solve real-world challenges throughout the application lifecycle.

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading reference book on ALM.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1st edition (September 26, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430246383
• ISBN-13: 978-1430246381

eBook Description:

Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012

Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP .NET developers make the leap to the inevitable and exciting world of HTML5. The growing HTML5 specifications promises to revolutionize the way web sites are developed with an impressive set of built-in client-side features.  The use of HTML5 as a preferred development language in Windows 8, along with growing support from the major browser vendors, is likely to make HTML5 the de-facto standard for all future web development. The number of HTML5-capable phones alone is estimated to top 1 billion by 2013. Many professional web developers who are firmly rooted in the Microsoft toolset such as Visual Studio, Active Server Pages, and .NET are trying to understand how HTML5 fits into their world.

Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is for the professional web developer who is familiar with traditional ASP.NET web forms or the relatively new Model View Controller (MVC) framework. It is designed for the web builders who want to take advantage of the new design features or the infrastructure improvement of HTML5. It is geared toward individuals who want the practical, real-world demonstrations and not just a lot of theory. Discover the future of web development with Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012.

With this book, you’ll quickly master the new HTML elements, the improved CSS features, and advanced content including audio, video, and graphic processing. You will also learn how your enterprise applications can benefit from some brand-new technology such as local storage and web sockets. Using practical hands-on demonstrations you will learn all of the really cool features that you can start using now, within your existing ASP .NET applications.

Discover the future of web development with Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012.

• Illustrates how to integrate the new HTML5 features in an ASP .NET application.
• Explains how to add active content including video and graphics.
• Demonstrates the new scripting features such as application cache and local storage.

What you’ll learn

• Take advantage of the new browser capabilities from within your ASP applications.
• Use local storage and other infrastructure improvements.
• Use the new CSS3 features to create dramatic web sites.
• Integrate the new HTML5 features with the MVC4 framework.
• Create mobile friendly web sites.
• Use canvas and SVG to build some amazing web pages.

Who this book is for

Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is for the professional web developer who is familiar with traditional ASP.NET web forms or the relatively new Model View Controller (MVC) framework. It is designed for the web builders who want to take advantage of the new design features or the infrastructure improvement of HTML5. It is geared toward individuals who want the practical, real-world demonstrations and not just a lot of theory.

Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP .NET developers make the leap to the inevitable and exciting world of HTML5. The growing HTML5 specifications promises to revolutionize the way web sites are developed with an impressive set of built-in client-side features.  The use of HTML5 as a preferred development language in Windows 8, along with growing support from the major browser vendors, is likely to make HTML5 the de-facto standard for all future web development. The number of HTML5-capable phones alone is estimated to top 1 billion by 2013. Many professional web developers who are firmly rooted in the Microsoft toolset such as Visual Studio, Active Server Pages, and .NET are trying to understand how HTML5 fits into their world.

With this book, you’ll quickly master the new HTML elements, the improved CSS features, and advanced content including audio, video, and graphic processing. You will also learn how your enterprise applications can benefit from some brand-new technology such as local storage and web sockets. Using practical hands-on demonstrations you will learn all of the really cool features that you can start using now, within your existing ASP .NET applications.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 386 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073565798X
• ISBN-13: 978-0735657984

eBook Description:

Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Discover how to turn requirements into working software increments faster and more efficiently using Visual Studio 2012 in combination with Scrum and Agile engineering practices. Designed for software development teams, this guide delivers pragmatic, role-based guidance for exploiting the capabilities of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Team members will learn proven practices and techniques for implementing Scrum to manage an application’s life cycle, as well as seamlessly plan, manage, and track their Scrum projects.

Discover how to turn requirements into working software increments faster and more efficiently using Visual Studio 2012 in combination with Scrum and Agile engineering practices. Designed for software development teams, this guide delivers pragmatic, role-based guidance for exploiting the capabilities of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Team members will learn proven practices and techniques for implementing Scrum to manage an application’s life cycle, as well as seamlessly plan, manage, and track their Scrum projects.

Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Discover how to turn requirements into working software increments faster and more efficiently using Visual Studio 2012 in combination with Scrum and Agile engineering practices. Designed for software development teams, this guide delivers pragmatic, role-based guidance for exploiting the capabilities of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Team members will learn proven practices and techniques for implementing Scrum to manage an application’s life cycle, as well as seamlessly plan, manage, and track their Scrum projects.

About the Author

Richard Hundhausen

Richard is the president of Accentient, a company that helps software development teams understand and leverage Application Lifecycle Management and Scrum tools and practices. He has over 30 years of software development experience and over 20 years of training experience. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Visual Studio ALM MVP, and author of several books and courses, including Microsoft’s Professional Scrum Developer program. Richard grew up in southern Idaho, lived in Germany for a couple of years, and moved back to Boise in 2001. He enjoys playing soccer, writing code, and being a husband and father of five.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849686521
• ISBN-13: 978-1849686525

eBook Description:

Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook

• Take advantage of all of the new features of Visual Studio 2012, no matter what your programming language specialty is!
• Get to grips with Windows 8 Store App development, .NET 4.5, asynchronous coding and new team development changes in this book and e-book
• A concise and practical First Look Cookbook to immediately get you coding with Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook

There’s a new technology wave coming, and for Microsoft this is reflected in Windows 8, HTML5 web development, .NET 4.5 and C++11. Riding that wave is a new version of their flagship development tool, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook has you putting the new features into practice from the get-go!

Among the exciting new features of Visual Studio 2012 is support for Windows 8, HTML5 and asynchronous development, as well as Team Foundation Server 2012 integration. Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook doesn’t waste time explaining what you already know from prior Visual Studio versions; instead you’ll see targeted and focused recipes on only new features so that you can get up to speed and back to work faster.

Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook empowers you to take advantage of all the new features in Visual Studio 2012 so that you can develop applications for the next technology wave.

The task-based recipes in this guide will have you up and running with improvements like support for Windows 8 development, HTML5 and JavaScript, .NET 4.5, asynchronous code and C++11.

And since most people don’t develop alone, you’ll also see how the new team development features of Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 can help your whole team work smarter, not harder.

Time is short and you’re in a hurry, so Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook will help you discover what’s new by way of a simple recipe format that is quick and easy to digest.

What you will learn from this book

• Get practical straight away by searching within your code, using IntelliSense and other general Visual Studio 2012 improvements
• Learn how Visual Studio 2012 supports the changes in ASP.NET web development
• Take advantage of the CSS Editor improvements in the new release
• Discover the debugging enhancements in Visual Studio 2012 like debugging on remote machines and tablets and the Concurrency Visualizer
• Dive into Windows 8 Store Apps with application construction, packaging and verification
• Get to grips with the practicality of the new changes with .NET 4.5, such as improving communications with WCF and Visual Studio 2012
• Detect duplicate code and develop Portable Class Libraries
• Get up and running with the C++ comeback in Visual Studio 2012
• Tackle how to work with DirectX in Visual Studio 2012

Approach

Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook is a concise and practical cookbook with recipes which get you up and running straight away with all the new functionality of Visual Studio 2012.

Who this book is for

If you are a developer excited about the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2012, then no matter what your programming language of choice is, Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook is for you. You should have a good knowledge of working with previous versions of Visual Studio to enjoy the recipes in this book.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 668 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 2nd edition (September 26, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430243449
• ISBN-13: 978-1430243441

eBook Description:

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012

You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn’t up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small, throughout your project’s life cycle that will lead to better quality finished products that are consistently delivered on time and within budget.

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest within the development community. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of responsibility and across many different disciplines, its effects on your project can be wide ranging and pronounced. It is a project management tool that has practical implications for the whole team from architects to designers, from developers to testers.

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful application lifecycle management tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful ALM tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. It demonstrates the key concepts and techniques of ALM at first with a guide to the overall methodology, and then delves into architecture and testing-illustrating all of the concepts, tips and tricks using the tools TFS provides. The book serves as a complete guide to the ALM style-with no fluff and many relevant code samples and examples.

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful application lifecycle management tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

After reading the book, you will understand how TFS can be used to generate continuous meaningful reporting on your project’s health for the decision makers on your team as well as for your project’s sponsors.

What you’ll learn

• What ALM is and what it can do for you
• How to achieve traceability in your projects
• How to improve your development process
• Why TFS is so much more than just a version control tool
• The new features in TFS that help encourage ALM best practices, especially within Metro and .NET 4.5 applications
• What the importance of well-designed and well-defined processes is and how to implement these things

Who this book is for

This book will be of value for anyone developing applications with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, whether they are working in a small team of just a few people or in a large enterprise environment.

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful application lifecycle management tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful ALM tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. It demonstrates the key concepts and techniques of ALM at first with a guide to the overall methodology, and then delves into architecture and testing-illustrating all of the concepts, tips and tricks using the tools TFS provides. The book serves as a complete guide to the ALM style-with no fluff and many relevant code samples and examples.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 24, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849687161
• ISBN-13: 978-1849687164

eBook Description:

Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices

• This book and e-book detail a large breadth of recommended practices in Visual Studio
• Consolidated reference of varied practices including background and detailed implementations, great for inexperienced and experience developers alike.
• A guidelines-based set of practices for all aspects of software development from architecture to specific technologies to deployment.

Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices

When you are developing on the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio 2010 offers you a range of powerful tools and makes the whole process easier and faster. After learning it, if you are think that you can sit back and relax, you cannot be further away from truth. To beat the crowd, you need to be better than others, learn tips and tricks that other don’t know yet. This book is a compilation of the best practices of programming with Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2010 best practices will take you through the practices that you need to master programming with .NET Framework. The book goes on to detail several practices involving many aspects of software development with Visual Studio. These practices include debugging and exception handling and design. It details building and maintaining a recommended practices library and the criteria by which to document recommended practices.

The book begins with practices on source code control (SCC). It includes different types of SCC and discusses how to choose them based on different scenarios. Advanced syntax in C# is then covered with practices covering generics, iterator methods, lambdas, and closures.

The next set of practices focus on deployment as well as creating MSI deployments with Windows Installer XML (WiX) including Windows applications and services. The book then takes you through practices for developing with WCF and Web Service.

The software development lifecycle is completed with practices on testing like project structure, naming, and the different types of automated tests. Topics like test coverage, continuous testing and deployment, and mocking are included. Although this book uses Visual Studio as example, you can use these practices with any IDE.

What you will learn from this book

• Learning source code control
• Practices for advanced C# syntax
• Asynchronous programming in C#
• Learn tips for architecting decoupled systems
• Practices for designing multi-threaded and parallel systems
• Practices for designing distributed systems
• Learn better ways of developing web services with WCF
• Learn faster ways to design automated tests
• Tips and tricks to test complex systems
• Understanding proven ways of deploying software systems in Windows

Approach

It will be a step-by-step tutorial that will discuss best practices. The book is structured in such a way that it can be read both from start to end or can dipped into.

Who this book is for

.Net developers using Visual Studio for programming will find this book useful. If you are developing your application with C#, you will find better ways to do things with Visual Studio.

You should know basics of development with .Net Framework and need working knowledge on Visual Studio.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (March 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672335530
• ISBN-13: 978-0672335532

eBook Description:

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed

Microsoft’s new Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in data-centric application development for Windows clients, the web, and the cloud. Using it, developers of all levels of experience can build powerful data-centric applications with little or no new code. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new development tool. Written by Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch – from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces.

Microsoft’s new Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in data-centric application development for Windows clients, the web, and the cloud. Using it, developers of all levels of experience can build powerful data-centric applications with little or no new code. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new development tool. Written by Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch – from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

• Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding
• Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details
• Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports
• Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud
• Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation
• Protect your applications with authentication and authorization
• Fine tune your code for scalability and performance
• Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud
• Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface
• Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio
• Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle
• Efficiently debug LightSwitch code and create code that’s easier to debug

Create powerful data-centric .NET applications for web, client, or cloud with just a few clicks – sometimes without writing any new code!

• The first book on Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch – a breakthrough in data-centric application development for everyone from experts to novices
• From the absolute basics to advanced deployment, security, and customization techniques
• By Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, one of the world’s most respected and well-known Visual Basic experts

Microsoft’s new Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in data-centric application development for Windows clients, the web, and the cloud. Using it, developers of all levels of experience can build powerful data-centric applications with little or no new code. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new development tool. Written by Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch – from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

Packed with examples and tips, it shows how to:

• Build simple data-centric applications, and add power with Relationships and Details screens
• Implement customized queries, filters, sorts, user controls, and reporting
• Aggregate data from multiple sources
• Handle events in code
• Efficiently debug LightSwitch applications
• Use authentication to secure LightSwitch applications
• Write custom .NET code in Visual Studio .NET to enhance your applications ” Customize and extend LightSwitch to do even more

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (September 23, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321685857
• ISBN-13: 978-0321685858

eBook Description:

Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, 2nd Edition

Using agile methods and the tools of Visual Studio 2010, development teams can deliver higher-value software faster, systematically eliminate waste, and increase transparency throughout the entire development lifecycle. Now, Microsoft Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer and leading Visual Studio implementation consultant Neno Loje show how to make the most of Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in your environment.

This book is the definitive guide to the application of agile development with Scrum and modern software engineering practices using Visual Studio 2010. You’ll learn how to use Visual Studio 2010 to empower and engage multidisciplinary, self-managing teams and provide the transparency they need to maximize productivity. Along the way, Guckenheimer and Loje help you overcome every major impediment that leads to stakeholder dissatisfaction from mismatched schedules to poor quality, blocked builds to irreproducible bugs, and technology “silos” to geographic “silos.”

Using agile methods and the tools of Visual Studio 2010, development teams can deliver higher-value software faster, systematically eliminate waste, and increase transparency throughout the entire development lifecycle. Now, Microsoft Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer and leading Visual Studio implementation consultant Neno Loje show how to make the most of Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in your environment.

This book is the definitive guide to the application of agile development with Scrum and modern software engineering practices using Visual Studio 2010. You’ll learn how to use Visual Studio 2010 to empower and engage multidisciplinary, self-managing teams and provide the transparency they need to maximize productivity. Along the way, Guckenheimer and Loje help you overcome every major impediment that leads to stakeholder dissatisfaction from mismatched schedules to poor quality, blocked builds to irreproducible bugs, and technology “silos” to geographic “silos.”

Coverage includes:

• Accelerating the “flow of value” to customers in any software project, no matter how large or complex
• Empowering high-performance software teams and removing overhead in software delivery
• Automating “burndowns” and using dashboards to gain a real-time, multidimensional view of quality and progress
• Using Visual Studio 2010 to reduce or eliminate “no repro” bugs
• Automating deployment and virtualizing test labs to make continuous builds deployable
• Using Test Impact Analysis to quickly choose the right tests based on recent code changes
• Working effectively with sources, branches, and backlogs across distributed teams
• Sharing code, build automation, test, project and other data across .NET and Java teams
• Uncovering hidden architectural patterns in legacy software, so you can refactor changes more confidently
• Scaling Scrum to large, distributed organizations

Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, 2nd Edition

Whatever your discipline, this book will help you use Visual Studio 2010 to focus on what really matters: building software that delivers exceptional value sooner and keeps customers happy far into the future.

Using agile methods and the tools of Visual Studio 2010, development teams can deliver higher-value software faster, systematically eliminate waste, and increase transparency throughout the entire development lifecycle. Now, Microsoft Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer and leading Visual Studio implementation consultant Neno Loje show how to make the most of Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in your environment.

This book is the definitive guide to the application of agile development with Scrum and modern software engineering practices using Visual Studio 2010. You’ll learn how to use Visual Studio 2010 to empower and engage multidisciplinary, self-managing teams and provide the transparency they need to maximize productivity. Along the way, Guckenheimer and Loje help you overcome every major impediment that leads to stakeholder dissatisfaction from mismatched schedules to poor quality, blocked builds to irreproducible bugs, and technology “silos” to geographic “silos.”

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 912 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (September 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321718313
• ISBN-13: 978-0321718310

eBook Description:

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What’s more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft experts who created these tools show you how to take full advantage of them.

The authors focus specifically on the SharePoint scenarios that Visual Studio 2010 now makes accessible to mainstream Microsoft developers. They assume no experience with SharePoint development and focus on SharePoint Foundation 2010: the low-cost version designed for organizations and departments of all kinds, not just large enterprises.

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

The essential companion to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), this book shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

Following a practical, developer-focused introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2010, you’ll learn about

• Visual Studio 2010 templates and tools that simplify the creation of SharePoint solutions
• The SharePoint object model and its most frequently used methods, properties, and events
• Using lists to store, manage, and share data
• Responding to events related to lists, features, items, or workflows
• Integrating external data with Business Data Connectivity Services
• Using content types that ship with SharePoint 2010 and creating new ones
• Building multi-step workflows and custom forms that work with them
• Utilizing Web Parts to present different data and applications on the same page
• Customizing SharePoint pages or navigation with ASP.NET
• Packaging and deploying solutions, and customizing deployment to your unique requirements

Whether you’re just starting out with SharePoint development, upgrading from earlier versions, or building on experience with ASP.NET, this book will help you solve real problems and get real results fast!

With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What’s more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft experts who created these tools show you how to take full advantage of them.

The authors focus specifically on the SharePoint scenarios that Visual Studio 2010 now makes accessible to mainstream Microsoft developers. They assume no experience with SharePoint development and focus on SharePoint Foundation 2010: the low-cost version designed for organizations and departments of all kinds, not just large enterprises.

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

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