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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27 minutes, 10 secondsGetting Started with Unit Testing Part 2Jun 11, 2014 at 8:36 AM
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This is another in Robert's Getting Started series, where he provides an introduction to a topic that everyone knows about but not everyone is actually doing (or doing enough of). In part 1 of this 3 part series, Robert showed how to get started with unit testing in Visual Studio. In this episode,… -
28 minutes, 3 secondsGetting Started with Unit Testing Part 1Jun 04, 2014 at 8:25 AM 31
This is another in Robert's Getting Started series, where he provides an introduction to a topic that everyone knows about but not everyone is actually doing (or doing enough of). In this episode, part 1 of 3, Robert shows how to get started with unit testing in Visual Studio. The primary goal of… -
43 minutes, 32 secondsMVVM Best PracticesMay 21, 2014 at 10:06 AM 24
In this episode, recorded at TechEd in Houston, Robert is joined by Brian Lagunas of Infragistics, who shares with us best practices for building applications using MVVM. Brian starts off by reviewing what MVVM is and what it isn't. He then demonstrates several things you should not do and why you… -
56 minutes, 35 secondsGetting Started with Source Control with Visual Studio OnlineApr 23, 2014 at 8:00 AM 8
This is another in Robert's Getting Started series, where he provides an introduction to a topic that everyone knows about but not everyone is actually doing (or doing enough of). In this episode, Robert shows how to get started with source control with Visual Studio Online. You will see how to set… -
35 minutes, 52 secondsXAML Authoring Improvements in Visual Studio 2013Apr 16, 2014 at 6:29 AM 1
In this episode, Robert is joined by Harikrishna Kumar, who show us improvements to authoring XAML in Visual Studio 2013. Hari shows us the Hub App template for Windows Store apps, Go to Definition, IntelliSense for data binding and resources, statement completion, IntelliSense matching and more. He… -
46 minutes, 48 secondsUsing Xamarin to take Existing .NET Apps Cross PlatformApr 09, 2014 at 8:59 AM 5
This is the last of a four part series on building cross platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses how to mobilize an existing .NET Silverlight app by reusing the existing C# code on Android, iOS, and… -
1 hour, 7 minutes, 12 secondsCross Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin and Azure Mobile ServicesMar 26, 2014 at 8:35 AM 5
This is the third of a four part series on building cross platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses how to leverage Azure Mobile Services and Xamarin to transform an offline app to a cloud connected… -
13 minutes, 48 secondsBing Code SearchMar 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM 15
In the episode, Robert is joined by Youssef Hamadi and Yi Wei, who show us the Bing Code Search extension for Visual Studio. With this extension, you can search for code samples across the coding community, including MSDN, StackOverflow, Dotnetperls and CSharp411. You don't need to switch context… -
43 minutes, 57 secondsSideWaffleMar 12, 2014 at 8:42 AM 2
In this episode, Robert is joined by Sayed Hashimi and Mads Kristensen, two of the driving forces behind the Sidewaffle Template Pack. SideWaffle is an extension that adds a bunch of useful Snippets, Project- and Item Templates to Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. The purpose is to make your daily work… -
27 minutes, 32 secondsBrowse the .NET Reference SourceMar 05, 2014 at 10:56 AM 7
In this episode, Robert is joined by Alok Shriram of the .NET Framework team and Kirill Osenkov of the Roslyn team. They show us the new experience for browsing the .NET Reference Source. You can browse through the .NET Framework source code online at http://referencesource.microsoft.com/. You can…
