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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26 minutes, 11 secondsWindows Azure Mobile ServicesSep 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM| 42,805 views
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In this episode, Josh Twist and Nick Harris introduce us to Windows Azure Mobile Services. This makes it incredibly easy to connect a scalable cloud backend to your client and mobile applications. It enables you to easily store structured data in the cloud that can span both devices and users and… -
24 minutes, 5 secondsProductivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012Dec 05, 2012 at 11:03 AM| 42,351 views 2
The Productivity Power Tools is an extension pack that delivers powerful tools for improved productivity. With 1.5 million downloads, the Visual Studio 2010 version is the second most downloaded extension in the Visual Studio Gallery. The Visual Studio 2012 version was released… -
30 minutes, 4 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Dependency GraphsMar 07, 2012 at 8:54 AM| 41,047 views 9
In this episode, Cameron Skinner joins us to talk about the enhanced dependency graphs in Visual Studio 11. Dependency graphs represent your application structures as nodes and the relationships in your application as links. Cameron shows us how these graphs help you better understand your… -
27 minutes, 37 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development EnvironmentMar 14, 2012 at 7:56 AM| 40,969 views 29
In 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… -
15 minutes, 53 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Write XMLOct 05, 2011 at 10:15 AM| 39,656 views 8
Previously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert showed how to use LINQ to XML to query data from Web sites. In this episode, Robert shows how to use LINQ to XML to write XML. He starts with a simple example that stores personal settings in an XML file, and then retrieves wines from Wine.com and writes… -
32 minutes, 40 secondsOData Support and HTML Clients in LightSwitchAug 01, 2012 at 8:40 AM| 39,020 views 2
In this episode, Beth Massi joins us to demonstrate some cool new features in LightSwitch. First, she shows us how LightSwtich now has built-in support for OData. Then, she shows us how to use the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview to build a cross-browser, mobile web client. -
33 minutes, 55 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Interviews with Jay Schmelzer and John PapaJun 27, 2012 at 8:24 AM| 38,970 views 0
In this episode, taped at TechEd North America, Robert chats with Jay Schmelzer, a Principal Director of Program Management at Microsoft, and John Papa, an independent consultant, speaker, and trainer for Pluralsight. Jay's team owns the business application tooling in Visual Studio. He and Robert… -
26 minutes, 19 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: LightSwitch Starter KitsAug 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM| 37,942 views 11
LightSwitch is the fastest way to build database applications for the desktop and the cloud. In this episode, Robert shows you how to make developing with LightSwitch even faster with the LightSwitch Starter Kits. These Starter Kits cover common business needs like expense reporting and issue… -
22 minutes, 56 secondsVisual Studio 2012 Color Theme EditorNov 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM| 37,604 views 12
In this episode, Matthew Johnson shows us the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension. With this extension, you can customize the Visual Studio 2012 color palette, choosing from several available themes or creating your own in order to customize colors used for menus, toolbars,… -
58 minutes, 27 secondsCSLA.NETAug 22, 2012 at 8:44 AM| 37,326 views 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…
