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

T15 What’s New in the Visual Studio 2013 IDE Tuesday August 20 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Cathy Sullivan, Program Manager, IDE Experience, Microsoft
Radhika Tadinada, Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team, Microsoft

In this session you’ll get to see some remarkable new features in Visual Studio 2013 and find out how they make Visual Studio even more attractive to your customers. more

W05 What's New in the .NET 4.5 BCL Wednesday August 21 9:15am - 10:30am

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

This talk will focus on the additions to the next version of the .NET Framework, such as asynchronous I/O, reflection, and exceptions. more

W10 Understanding Dependency Injection and Those Pesky Containers Wednesday August 21 10:45am - 12:00pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Learn about dependency injection from concept to implementation, and understand how it works and what problems it solves. more

W15 Mastering Visual Studio 2012 Wednesday August 21 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Come and see all of these new tools and features to help you master all of Visual Studio 2012. more

W20 TFS vs Team Foundation Service Wednesday August 21 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this session Brian will explain the good, the bad, and yes, the ugly of both products. more

TH05 Build It So You Can Ship It! Thursday August 22 8:00am - 9:15am

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

A crash course on the why and what of Team Foundation Server and the online Service’s build components. more

TH10 Better Process and Tools with Microsoft ALM Thursday August 22 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies
Jeff Levinson , Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio Online, Microsoft

Get advice from two experts on how you can manage your team and get the metrics to know “how you’re doing” from Team Foundation Server. more

TH12 Design Patterns for Multi-Threaded Web Services Thursday August 22 11:00am - 12:15pm

Adam Wilson, Director of Software Development , Prospective Software

Explore the usage of new patterns and tools for WCF and REST. more