Visual Studio

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back and discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:29] TechEd NA 2013 is on Channel 9 [01:05] TechEd Europe 2013 [01:45] Visual Studio 2013 Announcement (Brian Harry),Team Foundation Service Updates for TechEd 2013, Windows Azure: Announcing…

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Welcome to this series of lessons about the C# programming language. In this episode, Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.NET introduces the topic, sets expectations for the series, and provides tips on how to get the most out of it. Bob also tells you where you can download the software you'll need to…

This lesson teaches you how to create a simple application—first using Windows Notepad and the C# Command Line Compiler, and then by using Visual Studio or Visual C# Express Edition. The point of this episode is to demonstrate how utilizing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is far easier…

 Are you wondering what shipped with .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012? If yes, you are not alone! Get some popcorn, a large mug of coffee and join Robert MacLean, Technology Specialist, ALM MVP and Distinguished ALM Ranger, who takes us on an Epic journey with three exciting adventures filled…

This lesson picks up from the previous one by discussing at length each completed action and written line of code. It discusses the relationship between the C# code, the C# compiler, the .NET Framework, and more. The lesson discusses the concept of code blocks at a high level explaining how methods,…

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three top async patterns and anti-patterns. Tips: Async void is for top-level event-handlers only, and…

In this lesson we start adding C# syntax to your vocabulary by talking about one of the fundamental building blocks: data types and variables. As well as basic topics such as naming conventions, data type conversions are discussed.    Download the source code for Declaring Variables and…

NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet version 2.5! This has been an elusive feature for VC++ developers so we are thrilled it's here. It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen,…

This lesson demonstrates some common Visual Studio IDE features, various windows, debugging features, code window features, customizations, and more found in Visual C# Express Edition. A more complete discussion of features is found in the Visual C# Express Edition Fundamentals series and the Visual…