Visual Studio Toolbox
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With its focus on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio, this show will help you become a more productive developer. Join your host Robert Green and see what tools you can put in your Visual Studio Toolbox.
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20 minutes, 43 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Interview with Billy HollisJul 05, 2012 at 8:12 AM
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In this episode—taped at TechEd North America—Robert chats with Billy Hollis, a consultant and trainer who is a widely recognized expert on XAML and design. Robert and Billy have a freewheeling discussion that focuses mostly on the design of Windows 8 apps. -
55 minutes, 14 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Designing XAML-based Metro style apps with Visual Studio and BlendApr 25, 2012 at 7:26 AM 8
Previously 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… -
26 minutes, 14 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: SQL Server Compact ToolboxMar 28, 2012 at 8:00 AM 3
In 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… -
38 minutes, 59 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with XAMLApr 05, 2012 at 8:29 AM 2
The 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… -
24 minutes, 25 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Customizing the Visual Studio Start PageOct 12, 2011 at 1:55 PM 2
In this episode, Robert reviews the Visual Studio Start page, showing how to configure it so that it automatically appears (or doesn't) as well as how to customize the RSS feed that appears on the Latest News tab. Since the Start page is XAML and can be customized, Robert builds a custom Start page… -
39 minutes, 41 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Building Extensions with CodeRushOct 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM 4
This week, Robert invites Mark Miller and Rory Becker from DevExpress onto the show. They demonstrate how you can use CodeRush to build a plug-in that will enforce naming conventions for classes, methods, and other members in a Visual Studio solution. Mark is in the studio and does all the… -
20 minutes, 2 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Creating Item TemplatesJun 01, 2011 at 4:45 PM 11
In this episode of Visual Studio Toolbox, we talk about reuse, something we want as much of as we can get. We look at how you can create your own item template. We take an XAML splash screen and turn it into an item template that shows up when in the Add New Item dialog box. Then, we take a look at… -
23 minutes, 5 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: JScript Editor ExtensionsAug 24, 2011 at 1:07 PM 9
Damian Edwards of the ASP.NET product team joins us this week and shows off the JScript Editor Extensions. These four extensions add support for brace matching, the <para> tag, outlining, and highlighting instances of a word. Damian will demonstrate how these enable you to more quickly and… -
26 minutes, 38 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010Sep 07, 2011 at 12:14 PM 4
Continuing with our Web theme, Mads Kristensen of the ASP.NET team joins us. Mads is the author of several Visual Studio extensions that aid Web developers. Here, Mads explains and demos the following topics: Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1, which provides HTML5 and CSS3 support.… -
58 minutes, 27 secondsCSLA.NETAug 22, 2012 at 8:44 AM 7
In this episode, Rocky Lhotka joins us to talk about CSLA.NET. CSLA is a software development framework that helps you build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented, and workflow applications. Its primary goal is to help you implement, manage, and reuse…
