Visual Studio 2010 Launch - Channel 9

Sean McBreen: Proactive Project Management with Visual Studio 2010

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:26:00 GMT

Successful projects share a number of common characteristics – tight integration between the ground level practitioner and project management, agile methodologies such as Scrum are taking hold in mainstream development.

In this session, we’ll explore how teams can leverage the capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to manage, communicate, and track work to be done as well as report on project status and key performance indicators through the project lifecycle. You will see the new Agile Planning workbooks in Visual Studio 2010, as well as new reporting tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server dashboards. You will see you how to take advantage of these tools in your current and future projects.

Doug Seven: Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:26:00 GMT

Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late.

In this session you will discover the six mechanisms in Visual Studio 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing.

Clemri Steyn: Team Foundation Server for Everyone

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:26:00 GMT

Are you still using Visual SourceSafe? Is your source code in Subversion? Have you hobbled together a set of open source tools that just “get the job done”? Team Foundation Server 2010 is the best next-step from Visual SourceSafe and other version control systems.

In this session we will dispel the myths for why you aren’t already using Team Foundation Server, show you how get started including migrating your existing code from Visual SourceSafe and introduce you to some of the additional capabilities of Team Foundation Server that will enable you to set up continuous integration builds with quality gates and document and track items from your backlog. If you’ve been thinking about trying Team Foundation Server, now is the time to check it out.

Sam Gazitt: SharePoint and Office Development with Visual Studio 2010

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:25:00 GMT

Many customers are turning to SharePoint as a way of meeting changing business needs and managing IT costs and complexity. Visual Studio 2010 provides new support for SharePoint 2010 development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company.

In this session we will cover connecting SharePoint to external data, enhancing customizations with Silverlight, and leveraging SharePoint data from Office client extensions. You will see how to leverage your existing .NET skills to deliver new functionality on a platform that is readily familiar to end-users.

Paul Yuknewicz: Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:25:00 GMT

The end users of your applications are being exposed to radical new experiences on Windows every day. The applications they use in their day-to-day jobs are starting to take advantage of hardware-accelerated graphics, 3D animation, and performance optimizations available on multiple core machines.

In this session we’ll examine how the integrated designers, improved support for line-of-business scenarios, and enhanced platform support in Visual Studio 2010 make it easier and faster to deliver innovative Windows applications. We’ll also see how you can enhance existing applications to take advantage of new Windows 7 capabilities and capitalize on multiple-core processing.

Doug Seven: Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:25:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 introduces an entirely new set of architecture tools to aide in both understanding the code you already have and in defining how new systems will be built.

In this session, you will discover how you can use new tools like the Architecture Explorer to better understand and comprehend complex systems before making any changes to them. You will see how graphically modeling the code makes it easier to understand the impact of a potential change. We’ll also show you how you can use modeling tools for UML and layer diagramming to describe and communicate the design of a new system—including how these tools can be used to validate the software being developed against its intended architecture.