Visual Studio Toolbox
- 65 Episodes
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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50 minutes, 58 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: What's New in the Windows Azure June 2012 ReleaseJun 20, 2012 at 8:25 AM| 228 views this month
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In this episode, Nick Harris joins us to talk about what's new in Windows Azure tooling. On Cloud Cover, Nick and his co-hosts covered the Windows Azure June 2012 Release from a much broader perspective. Here, we take a different approach and look at the new release from the perspective of… -
55 minutes, 14 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Designing XAML-based Metro style apps with Visual Studio and BlendApr 25, 2012 at 7:26 AM| 209 views this month 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… -
42 minutes, 35 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Debugger CanvasMay 23, 2012 at 8:15 AM| 209 views this month 7
In 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… -
25 minutes, 58 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: SlowCheetahJun 06, 2012 at 8:35 AM| 201 views this month 8
In this episode, Sayed Hashimi joins us to demonstrate SlowCheetah, a Visual Studio extension that enables you to transform your app.config or any other XML file based on the build configuration—you can have both debug and release versions of your configuration files and swap between them when… -
48 minutes, 32 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 2Jan 25, 2012 at 8:01 AM| 201 views this month 16
In this episode, Rowan Miller and Diego Vega return for Part 2 of our deep dive into the Entity Framework. In Part 1, they showed the following workflows available in Entity Framework 4.2: Code First, Model First, Database First, and Code First with an existing database. In this episode, they show a… -
27 minutes, 44 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScriptApr 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM| 190 views this month 15
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, Robert shows you how to use JavaScript, demonstrating each of the three project templates Visual Studio provides as well as building an app that… -
14 minutes, 22 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Training Courses and KitsDec 21, 2011 at 3:55 PM| 155 views this month 3
In this episode, Robert highlights the Online Training Courses and Offline Training Kits he and his colleagues produce. He focuses on two that he owns—one for Visual Studio 2010 and one for Visual Studio 11—and shows that you can review the training course material online at MSDN as well… -
22 minutes, 50 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Performance ProfilingDec 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM| 151 views this month 5
In this episode, Robert shows how to use the profiling tools in Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate to identify performance issues in your applications. He demonstrates two profiling methods: Sampling and Instrumentation. Sampling collects data on the CPU methods are using. Instrumentation collects… -
17 minutes, 0 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Productivity Power Tools Part 1May 11, 2011 at 12:25 PM| 141 views this month 37
Welcome to the debut episode of the Visual Studio Toolbox, a show that will focus on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio. The goal is to help you become a more productive developer. In this episode, we will start to explore the Productivity Power Tools, a freely downloadable… -
16 minutes, 25 secondsVisual Studio Toolbox: Creating and Using Code SnippetsJun 08, 2011 at 9:32 AM| 134 views this month 20
In this episode, we explore code snippets, an underappreciated feature of Visual Studio. Code snippets are existing pieces of code. All you have to do is type the snippets shortcut and Visual Studio writes the code for you. Watch as we first use a couple of snippets that ship with Visual Studio.…
