Experience modern app development and discover all of the incredible new features of Visual Studio 2012 from wherever you happen to be at the Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch.
Modern apps embrace the new needs in software development, by evolving business and consumer apps into a new era where connected, user-centric experiences are exposed through any device and powered by continuous services. Learn how Visual Studio 2012 and the Microsoft platform enable these experiences for your existing apps and empower you to build new exciting apps that delight your users.
- .NET 4.5 and languages: Learn the latest capabilities of .NET Framework 4.5, including enhancements in languages, libraries, and tools for creating modern apps.
- Web and cloud: Take advantage of Visual Studio 2012 to create compelling online experiences and continuous services that run on-premise and in the cloud.
- Windows platform: Learn about creating apps for Windows platform with Visual Studio 2012 to reach millions of potential customers
Modern app lifecycle management practices help teams build and ship great software that exceeds customer and business expectations, with agility, quality, and operational excellence. See how Visual Studio 2012 provides a comprehensive solution for any team to embrace modern app lifecycle management practices at their own pace to reduce cycle times, eliminate impediments and continuously deliver value.
- ALM development: Learn about the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2012 that help development teams plan projects with agility, integrate quality into the dev cycle, and break down team barriers.
- ALM testing: Learn about the market-leading capabilities Visual Studio 2012 has for testers, including formal & exploratory manual testing, and automated UI testing.
Visual Studio Industry Program (VSIP) partners provide a wide variety of products and solutions to help development teams Define, Develop, and Operate software and services in conjunction with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Modern developers and development teams use VSIP partner UI controls, test tools, TFS enhancements and migration products, and various other Visual Studio extensions to create better applications faster.
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Visual Studio 2012: Modern App Development
The world of software development has changed and so has Visual Studio. To build the next killer product or service, developers and development teams of any size need an integrated solution to turn their ideas into exceptional applications. In this keynote, you'll hear directly from the leaders of Visual...
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Building Modern Apps with Visual Studio 2012
Developers are now targeting a variety of platforms across the desktop, phone, and cloud while also focusing on satisfying users' demand for great app experiences. With Visual Studio 2012 developers can create compelling experiences across multiple connected devices powered by continuous services. Join...
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Managing the Modern App Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2012
Creating world class software requires more than just stellar developers. Yet, getting all stakeholders to collaborate effectively can be difficult and result in a lot of waste. Visual Studio 2012 has the solutions to support your development team from defining your project, to developing and testing...
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Creating Windows Store apps using C++ and DirectX
It is increasingly more common to see user interfaces for modern apps that are graphically intensive. Whether you are creating an interactive UI for a Windows Store app or a 3D game, having the right tools will make your job easier. Take a tour of the tools and technologies in Visual Studio 2012 for...
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Taking your business forward with modern apps
Join us to learn about the changing state of IT and application development and learn about the "New Normal" for our industry. Get a broad-picture of modern application development and how trends like the "Consumerization of IT" and "Bring your own Device" are affecting...
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Developer productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2012 IDE
This session provides an overview of new productivity features and capabilities of Visual Studio IDE that make it a very exciting release for developers. It also shows some of the C++ specific IDE features that makes writing C++ code in Visual Studio a very modern and productive experience.
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What's new in C# and Visual Basic: Async made simple
Explore the deep language innovation that Visual Studio 2012 brings to C# and Visual Basic. See how the Async language feature works together with new .NET Framework APIs to simplify asynchronous programming. No more callbacks!
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My favorite .NET 4.5 performance features
.NET just got faster. This session covers a few of the key performance features introduced in .NET 4.5, including background GC for server, Multi-core JIT, and the Managed Profile Guided Optimization Tool (Mpgo.exe).
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Creating cross platform apps using Portable Class Libraries
Learn how to create an app with versions for Windows Store and Windows Phone by using the new Portable Class Libraries supported in Visual Studio 2012 to share code between different versions of the app. See how the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (MVVM) is ideally suited to sharing code between platforms.
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What is new in WF4.5?
Modern app development requires rich foundation technologies, like Workflow, in order to implement high-quality applications. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) provides many improvements based on key customer requests such as C# expressions, contract-first, designer improvements, side-by-side versioning...
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A look at WPF 4.5
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4.5 powers the most complex desktop applications and is now adding a number of updates designed to help make your applications easier to develop and faster to execute. Smooth filtering and sorting of large lists of data, support for bound collection updates from...
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Creating Windows Store app using WCF 4.5 and WebSockets
Many new Windows Store apps require connections to back-end services to show live and collaborative data coming from concurrent users and multiple services. One important element is the ability to get connections to any kind of service, using any protocol. In this case, WCF helps you connect Windows...
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Entity Framework 5
Modern app development requires a rich foundation as well as back-end services in which data access is critical. Entity Framework is the strategic data technology for Microsoft that helps to develop data-driven applications and domain-driven applications. Take a tour of the new features in Entity Framework...