Visual Studio 2012 / .NET 4.5 -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

Visual Studio 2012 / .NET 4.5

The Microsoft .NET 4.5 framework includes exciting new capabilities that apply to any type of .NET application. To create these applications, developers use Visual Studio, including its LightSwitch toolset for creating line of business applications. Visual Studio 2012 provides powerful features around debugging, architecture and application lifecycle management (ALM). LightSwitch offers high levels of productivity for building business applications and data services. We'll give you the information you need to understand and leverage the power of .NET, Visual Studio, ALM, and LightSwitch today and into the future. Topics in this track include:

ALM, Visual Studio 2012 tooling, TFS, and DevOps
Asynchronous/parallel computing
Design patterns
.NET compilers, and static analysis of code

MW03 Workshop: Happy ALM with Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 Monday May 13 9:00AM - 6:00PM

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop, Brian will show you how Microsoft’s tool suite has changed and evolved to help you manage your entire lifecycle. more

T08 IntelliTrace, What is it and How Can I Use it to My Benefit? Tuesday May 14 10:45AM - 12:00PM

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Come and see why this feature can be a game changer for you today, and even more so when we look at the future of where we can use it in a production environment! more

T12 Team Foundation Server 2012 Builds: Understand, Configure, and Customize Tuesday May 14 1:30PM - 2:45PM

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Ben will start by giving you a tour of the features. Then he'll move on to show you how to configure your build servers, builds and how to extend and customize the default build scripts to handle environment-specific configuration files, configuring IIS applications, and more. more

T16 Modern ALM and the DevOps Story Tuesday May 14 3:00PM - 4:15PM

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

You’ll see how you can take a single idea and get it into production on an hourly basis if you choose. So get rid of your Federation uniform and your Klingon bat'leth just be a citizen of the universe with DevOps. more

T20 Patterns and Tools for Parallel Programming Tuesday May 14 4:45PM - 6:00PM

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

See the concepts of parallel and asynchronous programming and how to apply them in code. more

W04 Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces Wednesday May 15 9:15AM - 10:30AM

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

In this session, Ben will start by clarifying the difference between unit and integrationtests. After that, he'll demonstrate how using dependency injection, mocks objects and stubs can help break dependencies and simplify your tests. more

W12 Visual Studio 2012 – Everything You Need to Design, Build, Deploy, Operate and Maintain Quality Software Wednesday May 15 1:30PM - 2:45PM

Raj Krishnan, Technology Architect, Microsoft

Visual Studio 2012 – Everything You Need to Design, Build, Deploy, Operate and Maintain Quality Software more

TH09 Managing the .NET Compiler Thursday May 16 11:00AM - 12:15PM

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

In this session, you'll get a tour of the elements behind this new API, such as syntax trees and engines, and how you can use them in code analysis and metaprogramming techniques. more

TH13 Understanding Dependency Injection and Those Pesky Containers Thursday May 16 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

In this session, Miguel will explain dependency injection from concept to implementation, and use raw code samples to show you how it works and what problems it solves. more

TH17 Static Analysis in .NET Thursday May 16 3:00PM - 4:15PM

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

In this session, you'll see how you can use static analysis tools (like Code Analysis/FxCop) to find all kinds of implementation issues before they show up in a release. more