Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, 2nd Edition
Using agile methods and the tools of Visual Studio 2010, development teams can deliver higher-value software faster, systematically eliminate waste, and increase transparency throughout the entire development lifecycle. Now, Microsoft Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer and leading Visual Studio implementation consultant Neno Loje show how to make the most of Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in your environment.
This book is the definitive guide to the application of agile development with Scrum and modern software engineering practices using Visual Studio 2010. You’ll learn how to use Visual Studio 2010 to empower and engage multidisciplinary, self-managing teams and provide the transparency they need to maximize productivity. Along the way, Guckenheimer and Loje help you overcome every major impediment that leads to stakeholder dissatisfaction from mismatched schedules to poor quality, blocked builds to irreproducible bugs, and technology “silos” to geographic “silos.”
Using agile methods and the tools of Visual Studio 2010, development teams can deliver higher-value software faster, systematically eliminate waste, and increase transparency throughout the entire development lifecycle. Now, Microsoft Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer and leading Visual Studio implementation consultant Neno Loje show how to make the most of Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools in your environment. Download eBook Free »
SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010
SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.
With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What’s more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft experts who created these tools show you how to take full advantage of them.
The authors focus specifically on the SharePoint scenarios that Visual Studio 2010 now makes accessible to mainstream Microsoft developers. They assume no experience with SharePoint development and focus on SharePoint Foundation 2010: the low-cost version designed for organizations and departments of all kinds, not just large enterprises.
SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead. Download eBook Free »
A jump-start book and eBook to application development with Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch
A hands-on guide, packed with screenshots and step-by-step instructions and relevant background information—making it easy to build your own application with this book and ebook
Easily connect to various data sources with practical examples and easy-to-follow instructions
Create entities and screens both from scratch and using built-in templates
Query using built-in designer and by coding (both VB and C#)
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new development tool for building business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud with ease. You can easily do most of the designing for your application, but for building business applications you need to acquire the right skills. With this book you will gain confidence in working with LightSwitch, and the skills you acquire will greatly help you to develop applications yourself.
This Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development book is dedicated to giving you hands-on experience, when it comes to developing applications on LightSwitch. Everything, right from downloading the software to creating your application to deploying it, is discussed extensively. All this is laid out in an easy to understand and step-by-step format.
Develop, debug, and deploy business solutions for Microsoft SharePoint applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with this book and ebook
Create applications using the latest client object model and create custom web services for your SharePoint environment with this book and ebook.
Full of illustrations, diagrams and key points for debugging and deploying your solutions securely to the SharePoint environment.
Recipes with step-by-step instructions with detailed explanation on how each recipe works and working code examples.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook
Microsoft SharePoint 2010, is the best-in-class platform for content management and collaboration. With the combined capabilities of Sharepoint and Visual Studio, developers have an end-to-end business solutions development IDE. To leverage this powerful combination of tools it is necessary to understand the different building blocks. This book will provide necessary concepts and present ways to develop complex business solutions and take them further.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook is an instructional guide for developing and debugging applications for SharePoint 2010 environment using Visual Studio 2010. The cookbook approach helps you to dip into any recipe that interests you, you can also read it from cover to cover if you want to get hands on with the complete application development cycle.
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1st edition (August 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735649928
ISBN-13: 978-0735649927
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Expert advice to help you work smarter and increase your productivity with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010
Take a detailed look into Visual Studio and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Microsoft Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity includes a comprehensive collection of tips and shortcuts for working with the code editor, visual designers, searches, debugger, and other features in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. You’ll gain valuable insights for using this IDE no matter what your experience level.
Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio: Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010, Discover how to:
Change development settings and keyboard mappings to optimize your efficiency
Save time initiating a new project by creating custom templates
Uncover secrets for working with the toolbox, commands, and window layouts
Work with files in more practical ways, such as using the File Tab Channel
Use the Editor more effectively with tips on selecting and manipulating code
Apply techniques to help reduce the time you spend debugging code
Create Visual Studio extensions to increase your development productivity
Take a detailed look into Visual Studio and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Microsoft Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity includes a comprehensive collection of tips and shortcuts for working with the code editor, visual designers, searches, debugger, and other features in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010.
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1st edition (August 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735649928
ISBN-13: 978-0735649927
eBook Description:
Expert advice to help you work smarter and increase your productivity with Visual Studio
Take a detailed look into Visual Studio and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Microsoft Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity includes a comprehensive collection of tips and shortcuts for working with the code editor, visual designers, searches, debugger, and other features in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. You’ll gain valuable insights for using this IDE no matter what your experience level.
Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio: Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010, Discover how to:
Change development settings and keyboard mappings to optimize your efficiency
Save time initiating a new project by creating custom templates
Uncover secrets for working with the toolbox, commands, and window layouts
Work with files in more practical ways, such as using the File Tab Channel
Use the Editor more effectively with tips on selecting and manipulating code
Apply techniques to help reduce the time you spend debugging code
Create Visual Studio extensions to increase your development productivity
Take a detailed look into Visual Studio and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Microsoft Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity includes a comprehensive collection of tips and shortcuts for working with the code editor, visual designers, searches, debugger, and other features in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010.
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1st edition (August 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735640602
ISBN-13: 978-0735640603
eBook Description:
Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of parallel programming
Teach yourself how to help improve application performance by using parallel programming techniques in Visual Studio 2010 one step at a time. Ideal for experienced programmers with little or no parallel programming experience, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating applications that optimize the use of multicore processors.
Discover how to:
Apply techniques to help increase your application’s speed and efficiency
Simplify the process of adding parallelism with the Task Parallel Library (TPL)
Execute several tasks concurrently with various scheduling techniques
Perform data queries in parallel with PLINQ
Use concurrent collections in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 for data items
Extend classes in the TPL to meet the specific requirements of your application
Perform live debugging of an application with parallel code
Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step
Teach yourself how to help improve application performance by using parallel programming techniques in Visual Studio 2010 one step at a time. Ideal for experienced programmers with little or no parallel programming experience, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for creating applications that optimize the use of multicore processors.
Beginning Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Development: Learn how LightSwitch can accelerate and simplify application development
As Microsoft’s newest offering for simplifying application development, LightSwitch opens the development door to creating applications without writing code. This introductory, full-color book shows you how to quickly create, modify, and distribute information for your business with LightSwitch. Packed with simple example programs, this beginner-level resource guides you through a complete small business application using LightSwitch to demonstrate the capabilities of this exciting new tool.
You’ll explore the most common application development issues that developers encounter on a daily basis and learn how LightSwitch makes them easier to handle with solutions that streamline application development without requiring code.
Gets you started with Visual Studio LightSwitch, Microsoft’s newest offering for simplifying application development
Shows you how to prepare a LightSwitch application and looks at the technologies behind a LightSwitch application
Addresses working with simple data screens, working with master-detail data screens, and using exciting SQL server data
Looks at deploying applications, using SharePoint 2010 lists, and extending Visual Studio LightSwitch
If you’re ready to simplify the application development process without writing a piece of code, then this is the book for you!