Robert Green
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Robert Green is a Technical Evangelist in the Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft. This is his second stint at Microsoft. From 2005 to 2010 he was a Sr Consultant with MCW Technologies, focused on developer training. He authored or co-authored a number of Visual Studio and .NET courses for AppDev (www.appdev.com). Prior to that, in his first stint at Microsoft, he was in Developer Tools marketing and then Community Lead on the Visual Basic team.
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Debugger CanvasIn this episode, Kael Rowan of Microsoft Research joins us and shows the Debugger Canvas. Debugger Canvas is a power tool for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate that pulls together the code you're exploring onto a single pan-and-zoom display. As you hit breakpoints or step into code, Debugger Canvas s...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Designing XAML-based Metro style apps with Visual Studio and BlendPreviously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert showed how to use Visual Studio 11 and XAML to start building Metro style apps for Windows 8. In this episode, Joanna Mason shows us how to use Visual Studio's XAML Designer and Blend to make these apps better looking. She demonstrates how powerful Bl...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Blend and HTML-flavored Metro Style AppsPreviously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert showed how to use Visual Studio 11 and JavaScript to start building Metro style apps for Windows 8. In this episode, Kirupa Chinnathambi shows us how to use Blend for Visual Studio to create good looking apps. He demonstrates how Blend is an excellent...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScriptPreviously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert showed how to use Visual Studio 11 and XAML to start building Metro style apps for Windows 8. In this episode, Robert shows you how to use JavaScript, demonstrating each of the three project templates Visual Studio provides as well as building an app that ...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with XAMLThe Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been available for download for about a month now and if you haven't started building Metro style apps, now is a good time. In this episode, Robert takes a look at how you can use Visual Studio 11 to start building Metro style apps for Windows 8. Robert will focus ...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: SQL Server Compact ToolboxIn this episode, Erik Ejlskov Jensen joins us. Erik is a SQL Server Compact MVP and the author of the SQL Server Compact Toolbox add-in, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times! If you are using SQL Server Compact in an application, you will find this add-in very helpful. You can connect t...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Help Viewer Enhancements in Visual Studio 11When you view offline help in Visual Studio, you use the Help Viewer. In this episode, Paul O'Rear shows us some significant and welcome improvements to the Help Viewer in Visual Studio 11, including
- Default install of a minimum level of documentation [01:30]
- Choosing between online and loc...
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Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance: F5 ExperienceMar 19, 2012 at 10:27 AM
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We've made significant performance improvements in the Beta release of Visual Studio 11! Take a look at this video comparing the Developer Preview and Beta F5 experience using C++ F5.
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Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance: F4 Refresh WindowsMar 19, 2012 at 10:27 AM 1
We received feedback from both internal and external users that the stop debugging / edit / build / launch / attach cycle was too heavyweight, especially by comparison to the typical Web experience. We wanted to focus on making sure that cycle was as fast as possible, but we also wanted a model that...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development EnvironmentIn this episode, Sam Zaiss and Dan Dole of the Visual Studio User Experience team join us to talk about simplification and reduction in the Visual Studio 11 development environment. They show how much easier it is to navigate both within code and within the IDE, and also that the complexity of the I...
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Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript
May 02, 2012 at 8:22 AM@thealgabban:No one is suggesting that you throw away any of your skills. If you want to build Metro style apps for Windows 8, you can choose whether you want to use XAML with C#/VB/C++ or use JavaScript with HTML/CSS. This is your choice and they are both good choices. If you don't want to build Metro style apps, you can continue to build the same types of apps you have been building, whether they are Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF or Silverlight. And you can do this both on Windows 7 and on Windows 8.
Robert
Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1
Apr 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM@Chen: If you use Code First without Migrations, you will see this because EF changes the database to match the class structure you create. But if you use Database First that doesn't happen. EF creates the class structure to match the database. Check out Code First Migrations in the Part 2 video and at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/02/09/ef-4-3-code-based-migrations-walkthrough.aspx.
Let me know if you have additional concerns or questions.
Robert
Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1
Apr 18, 2012 at 3:15 PM@Rafael: Entity Framework works with any database if the database maker supplies a provider. Oracle has a provider that supports Entity Framework 4.1 and 4.2, although it does not support Code First.
Robert
Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript
Apr 16, 2012 at 9:48 AM@Jules: You say VS 11 is dreary. Do you mean Visual Studio in general? If so, wouldn't that also be true if you are building XAML apps, as well as non Metro style applications? The IDE is pretty much the same regardless of what type of application you are building.
Or are you saying that the problem is not Visual Studio, but the actual apps you build? I agree that the various templates don't have a lot of color in them. But you can use Blend to create good looking apps. Check out this week's episode (coming Wednesday) on using Blend to create good looking HTML based Metro style apps. And next week's episode will show using Blend with XAML based Metro style apps.
Robert
Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment
Mar 15, 2012 at 12:42 PM@Pritesh Ostwal:Preview properties without going to the Properties window? What would you want that to look like? How would it work?
Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment
Mar 14, 2012 at 11:09 AMWe value all of your feedback. Beyond filing a Connect bug, there are two channels that we are monitoring regularly to improve the product. Any feedback, both positive or negative, is welcome on the Visual Studio blog or on Visual Studio Uservoice. Thanks!
Visual Studio Toolbox: Dependency Graphs
Mar 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM@Remi:Yes!
Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 11 Beta with Jason Zander
Mar 08, 2012 at 10:21 AMThe best place to share your UI feedback is the Visual Studio User Voice site. The product team is very interested in what you have to say and is listening.
Robert
Visual Studio Toolbox: Dependency Graphs
Mar 08, 2012 at 7:53 AMThe best place to share your UI feedback is the Visual Studio User Voice site. The product team is very interested in what you have to say and is listening.
Robert
Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 11 Beta with Jason Zander
Mar 06, 2012 at 8:50 AM@ElleNearMello:You will need Visual Studio 11 to develop using .NET 4.5 and C# 5 and to take advantage of all the other new features in VS. You will be eligible for upgrade pricing, but we haven't yet announced what the pricing will be.
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