In this episode, Donovan Brown makes his debut as a co-host. He is joined by Sondra Batbold, who shows the Kanban board in Visual Studio Team Services. She shows how quickly you can customize the board to fit your team and how it is integrated with Microsoft Teams. For more information on the basics of Kanban, see the Visual Studio docs.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Jordan Matthiesen, who shows us enhancements to the Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). Jordan shows how quickly you can install Visual Studio 2017 with just the Mobile development with JavaScript workload (less than 10 minutes!) [03:30]. He demonstrates new Ionic templates in Visual Studio 2015 [05:30]. He then shows several new features in VS 2017 that speed up the edit-debug cycle [14:45], including a new browser based simulator, live reload and plugin simulation. For more information on what's new in TACO, see the Visual Studio blog.
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Windows 10 isn't just for Desktop, Laptops and Phones, it's also a platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). In this episode, Dmitry Lyalin is joined by Stephen Huang to go over how to get started with Windows 10 IoT Core. Learn the fundamentals such as setting up the OS on an SD card, monitoring your device, using Windows device portal, and running sample code using Visual Studio. They also show off the Intel and Raspberry Pi boards and various starter kits with touch screens and sensors to empower your next idea. Resources:Windows Dev Center for Windows IoTGitHub: Windows 10 IoT Core Samples
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, who shows us another batch of extensions he has written, all designed to boost developer productivity. Mads shows: File Icons [01:00] Adds icons for files that are not recognized by Solution Explorer.Syntax Highlighting Pack [05:00] Adds syntax highlighting and snippet support for a wide variety of programming languages such as Clojure, Go, Jade, Lua, Swift, Ruby and many more... .Ignore [08:20] A language service that makes it painless to handle all types of .ignore files such as .gitignore, .tfignore, etc.Markdown Editor [10:45] A full featured Markdown editor with live preview and syntax highligting. Supports GitHub flavored Markdown....
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In this episode, Dmitry is joined by Kevin Cunnane to give an overview of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Visual Studio, a fully integrated SQL Server development environment. In this video we'll demonstrate capabilities such as importing T-SQL into your solution, IntelliSense, table designers, data and schema compare capabilities, and much more. Resources: Follow us on Twitter: Dmitry Lyalin, Kevin Cunnane and SSDTDownloads: SQL Server Data Tools and HealthClinic.Biz Sample (GitHub)
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Stefan Wick, who shows how to convert a desktop app to a UWP app using the Desktop Bridge. Stefan demonstrates some of the benefits of using the Desktop Bridge, including clean install and uninstall and taking advantage of Windows 10 features including push notifications, Live Tile updates and background tasks. All of this without having to rewrite the existing app.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Jeremy Foster, who just did a GitHub for Windows users course for Microsoft Virtual Academy. Here, he focuses on how you can use GitHub in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Jeremy covers: GitHub Extension for Visual Studio [05:30]Creating and using repos [08:00]Committing changes and syncing [16:50]Downloading, cloning and forking code [28:00]Adding an existing project to GitHub [30:37]Using Git in Visual Studio Code [39:30]
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Adam Driscoll, author of the very popular PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio. This extension is a set of tools for developing and debugging PowerShell scripts and modules in Visual Studio. With this extension, you can edit, run and debug PowerShell scripts while leveraging Visual Studio's editor and debugging tools.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Charles Sterling, who shows how to use Power BI in your development efforts, specifically how to call REST APIs with Power BI without writing any code. You can parse, model and transform the resulting JSON to make creating rich interactive reports a snap and integrate this into your development efforts by embedding the Power BI data visualizations into your web applications. Towards the end of the video, he also discusses how client and mobile developers can take advantage of Power BI. Resources: Download Power BICharles' blog
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Daniel Jacobson, who shows how he built a Windows 10 IOT app that can be used by a coffee shop to know when customers enter and exit the shop. With that data, the shop can monitor traffic flow and figure out things like what days and times are the most, and least busy. The app uses a Raspberry Pi, sensors and Azure and is a great example of the types of Universal Windows Apps you can build. Daniel also offers a preview of some of the XAML tooling enhancements coming in the next version of Visual Studio [34:50]. Get the source code here.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by David Catuhe, the project lead for the UWP Community Toolkit, an open-source collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services that simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks for building UWP apps for Windows 10. David shows how easy it is to use the Toolkit and discusses some of the motivation and goals behind its creation. Resources: UWP Community Toolkit on GitHubUWP Community Toolkit Sample App in the Windows Store.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Kasey Uhlenhuth, who shows off a number of features that increase your code writing productivity in the current and next versions of Visual Studio. Among the things she shows are the C# Interactive window, Quick Launch, Navigate To, IntellliSense improvements, refactorings and better feedback from the code editor.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Scott Klein, host of the Data Exposed and SQL Unplugged shows, for a whirlwind tour of some of the advancements in data technology that have appeared recently. They review data technologies and services covering both on-premises and the cloud. Highlights include:SQL Server 2016 [03:30] -> Some of the exciting new features in SQL Server 2016 include StretchDB (stretch your on-premises cold data transparently and securely to the cloud), Polybase (access and combine both relational and non-relational data all from within SQL Server), Always Encrypted (enables clients to encrypt sensitive data inside client applications without ever revealing the encrypti...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by James Montemagno, who shows us what is new in the latest version of Xamarin.Forms, which enables you to build a native UI for three platforms with one shared C# codebase. Simply put, if you know C# then you already know how to build iOS, Android, and Windows apps. Xamarin.Forms is already packed with tons of awesome and recently had a major overhaul with Xamarin.Forms 2.0, but the fun didn't stop there as there have been amazing new features introduced. James gives a full break down of all the spectacular features that have been recently released and a peek into the future of Xamarin.Forms. Resources Get StartedVisual Studio Dev EssentialsJames on Twitte...
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In this episode, Robert welcomes James Montemagno back to the show to talk about how you can get started developing with Xamarin. James shows exactly what you need to get started building mobile apps with Xamarin including the hardware required and software you need to install. He then shows how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS, Android and Windows mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. He also shows how to reuse existing .NET libraries and share business logic across apps. Resources:Get StartedVisual Studio Dev EssentialsJames on TwitterJames on GitHubJames's Surface Book Setup Guide
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Hall, who shows a number of cool debugging tips and tricks for C++ developers. More specifically, he shows: Configuring launch options from project properties (command line arguments and setting environment variables)Seeing function return valuesSet next statementStep into specificRun to cursorEdit and Continue (including x64 support)Exception SettingsConditional, Hit Count, and Filter BreakpointsPinning DataTipsParallel Stacks windowShow External CodeParallel Watch windowFreeze and Thaw threadsFlag Threads and Run Flagged Threads to CursorShow Threads in sourceDebug Location toolbarDebugging Heap Corruption with Page HeapPerfTipsIntegrate...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Stacey Haffner, co-owner/dev of What Up Games, who will show us how to build a Unity game that includes simple mechanics such as audio, animations, AI and UI. The game is Super Space Shooter and it involves shooting enemy spaceships. In part 4 of this 4 part series, Stacey focuses on UI issues, particularly how to display shooter score and health and how to add a start screen to the game. Resources: Part 1Part 2Part 3What Up GamesSuper Space Shooter on GitHubDownload UnityGames assets from Kenney
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NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. It recently surpassed 1 billion downloads. In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Haack, Jeff Fritz and Hari Menon to talk about NuGet, its origins and the important role it plays in software development.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Stacey Haffner, co-owner/dev of What Up Games, who will show us how to build a Unity game that includes simple mechanics such as audio, animations, AI and UI. The game is Super Space Shooter and it involves shooting enemy spaceships. In part 3 of this 4 part series, Stacey adds the ability for the player and enemy ships to shoot each other. Resources: Part 1Part 2What Up GamesSuper Space Shooter on GitHubDownload UnityGames assets from Kenney
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Stacey Haffner, co-owner/dev of What Up Games, who will show us how to build a Unity game that includes simple mechanics such as audio, animations, AI and UI. The game is Super Space Shooter and it involves shooting enemy spaceships. In part 2 of this 4 part series, Stacey sets the player up so it can shoot a laser and refactors the player object to a ship object, making it easier to create the enemy ship. Resources: Part 1What Up GamesSuper Space Shooter on GitHubDownload UnityGames assets from Kenney
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Stacey Haffner, co-owner/dev of What Up Games, who will show us how to build a Unity game that includes simple mechanics such as audio, animations, AI and UI. The game is Super Space Shooter and it involves shooting enemy spaceships. In part 1 of this 4 part series, Stacey introduces us to the Unity environment, shows us how to create the game's background and the player's ship and gets us familiar with writing scripts in Visual Studio. Resources: What Up GamesSuper Space Shooter on GitHubPart 2Download UnityGames assets from Kenney
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Harikrishna Menon, who shows us MyDriving, an Azure IoT and Mobile sample application. This solution uses On-board diagnostics (OBD) data from your car to analyze your driving. The backend uses multiple Azure Services like IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, SQL databases, HDInsight, Machine Leaning, and App Services and how you can configure them without having to write a lot of code. The app runs on Windows, iOS and Android and is built with Xamarin. Hari shows how to make use of the full DevOps cycle (Visual Studio Team Services, HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud) to build, test and distribute the app. Resources: MyDriving sample appSource codeReference guideDocum...
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In this episode, live from BUILD 2016, Robert is joined by Ryan Salva and several luminaries from the JavaScript world: John Bristowe (NativeScript evangelist), Max Lynch (co-founder of Ionic) and Jesse MacFadyen (one of the founding developers of PhoneGap/Cordova). Ryan updates us on some news and then John, Max and Jesse shed light on modern JavaScript development.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, who shows us the Web Extension Pack. This extension installs a number of extensions that help you become a more productive Web developer. The extensions contained in the Web Extension Pack have been proven to be stable over time and useful for all Web developers. The Web Extension Pack includes the following extensions (as of the day this episode was published :)): Add New FileBrowser Reload on SaveBrowser SyncGlyphfriendImage OptimizerJavaScript Snippet PackOpen Command LinePackage InstallerSuggested ExtensionsWeb AnalyzerWeb CompilerWeb Essentials 2015
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In this episode, Robert is joined by JB Evain, who gives us a walkthrough of how you can write and debug your C# based Unity game scripts using Visual Studio. With the Visual Studio Tools for Unity, you get full IntelliSense and the ability to implement MonoBehaviours. You can take advantage of the full Visual Studio debugging environment. And you can also use the Unity Project Explorer to navigate and create your Unity scripts, without having to bounce back and forth between Visual Studio and the Unity IDE.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Donovan Brown, who shows us infrastructure as code. This provides you the ability to take the infrastructure you want to host an app in and define it in code that can be checked into source code. These code files can server as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, which can be used to spin up a pre-defined environment.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Ryan Salva, who shows us new tooling recently made available by the Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) team. These include the Cordova Tools extension for Visual Studio Code [07:00], Project ACE, which provides the capability to include native controls in your Cordova apps [32:00] and CodePush, a cloud service that enables Cordova developers to deploy mobile app updates directly to their users' devices [48:00].
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Jerry Nixon, who shows us Template 10, a set of Visual Studio project templates for Windows 10 apps. Template 10 provides a number of controls (eg Hamburger), services (eg Navigation), converters (eg StringFormat and ValueWhen), MVVM classes and more. Why write your own when you can use the ones Template 10 provides? If you are writing Windows 10 apps, you should look at using Template 10, or at least look at the code and see how it does what it does. Resources: Download Template 10 from the Visual Studio GalleryTemplate 10 code on GitHubTemplate 10 documentation Wiki on GitHubTemplate 10 on Stack Overflow
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Nick Landry for a whirlwind tour of the Visual Studio Emulator for Android. This emulator is free, fast and powerful. It supports a variety of Android versions and screen sizes, as well as the full range of sensors, including accelerometer, screen orientation, SD card, battery, multi-touch, GPS, camera, audio and keyboard. If you are building Android apps, you want to download and use this!
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Jon Chu to explore how good the Visual Studio XAML Designer and Blend are these days. Robert's New Year's resolution is to spend less time typing XAML and more time using the designers. Jon shows several examples of how you can build a XAML app and not have to type the XAML. Resources Windows Dev Center (dev.windows.com)UWP samples (aka.ms/uwpsamplesrepo)Sample app used in this episode (aka.ms/bandeventuwp)Guide to customizing the sample app (aka.ms/bandeventuwpcustomize)
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Oleg Kharitonov, who shows new features in the Visual Studio 2015 IDE that will make life better for C++ developers. Among the new features he shows are: Refactoring (Rename, Create Declaration/Definition, Move Definition, Implement Pure Virtuals, Convert to a Raw String)Improved Find in Files experienceSimplified IntelliSense (show string instead of basic_string<char>)Single File IntelliSense (open a standalone .cpp file to get IntelliSense)Move a line by holding Alt+Up and Down
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Paul Litwin, who shows us how to get started with Git in under an hour. Git is a free, open source and quite popular distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Starting with the command line and ending up in both VS Code and Visual Studio, Paul takes us on a tour of the how you can use Git to manage your source code.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by John Papa, who explains and shows why he is a huge fan of Visual Studio Code and has adopted it for Web development. Among the topics they discuss in this freewheeling show are learning new technologies, JavaScript. TypeScript, Angular, and of course lots of features in Visual Studio Code. Resources: Download Visual Studio CodeJohn's Visual Studio Code course on Pluralsight
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Tim Sneath for the second of two episodes focused on building Visual Studio extensions. In part 1, Tim provided an overview of extensions and talked about some of the enhancements in Visual Studio 2015 for writing extensions. In part 2, Tim goes shows in detail how he built Gists, a simple Visual Studio extension that supports publishing a text selection or file to a GitHub Gist
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, author of many of the most useful and cool Visual Studio extensions around. Mads shows the following extensions: Open Command Line [01:10]Command Task Runner [06:30]Add New File [09:50]Web Compiler [13:15]Package Installer [20:45]File Nesting [25:00]Web Analyzer [26:30]You can find the source code for Mads' extensions on GitHub.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Tim Sneath for the first of two episodes focused on building Visual Studio extensions. In part 1, Tim provides an overview of extensions and talks about some of the enhancements in Visual Studio 2015 for writing extensions. He creates a very simple extension and then gives a quick overview of an extension he is writing. In the upcoming part 2, Tim will go into more detail on how he built that extension. You can download the C# Essentials and DuoCode extensions Tim showed using the links here. You can also find them in the Visual Studio Gallery.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Lasker, who explains what containers are and how Visual Studio developers can take advantage of them. If you have been hearing about Docker and containers and wondering what it means to you, this is the episode to watch. [Note: This is a redo of the original episode, After receiving some feedback from viewers, we decided to reshoot the video and attempt to be more focused and clear on the topic. As always, we greatly appreciate your comments and suggestions on this show.] Resources Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Docker - August PreviewWindows ContainersDocker for .NET DevelopersDeploying to Linux & Windows Docker ContainersHelp improve Docker Con...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Lasker, who explains what containers are and how Visual Studio developers can take advantage of them. If you have been hearing about Docker and containers and wondering what it means to you, this is the episode to watch. Resources Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Docker - August PreviewWindows ContainersDocker for .NET DevelopersDeploying to Linux & Windows Docker ContainersHelp improve Docker Container Tooling
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Nick Landry, who shows us how to integrate Cortana into apps. Among the topics Nick covers and shows are voice commands, speech recognition and synthesis, background voice commands and continuous dictation. Resources: Nick's BlogNick's DemosUniversal Windows App Development with Cortana and the Speech SDK on Microsoft Virtual AcademySlideShare - Building Windows 10 Universal Apps with Speech and CortanaAdventure Works Cortana VCD DemoWindows 10 Speech SamplesWindows 10 Universal App Development Docs - Cortana Interactions
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Hall, who shows tips and tricks for debugging multithreaded applications. Computers with multiple processors, multi-core processors, or hyperthreading processes can run multiple threads at the same time. Parallel processing of multiple threads can greatly improve program performance, but it can also make debugging more difficult because it introduces the need to keep track of multiple threads. Andrew shows how you can use features that have been in Visual Studio for several releases to effectively debug multithreaded applications.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Brady Gaster and Mike Morton, who show us what Visual Studio developers get when they install the Azure SDK 2.7. Among the many enhancements they show are: Visual Studio provides the ability to sign in with multiple Azure accounts simultaneously [02:15]Cloud Explorer, a new tool window which will soon replace the Azure node in Server Explorer [05:23]New templates for creating Azure API apps and Azure App Service tooling improvements, including improvements to the Swagger generation process [23:00]Improvements in how you work with multiple resources and resource groups [38:45]For more information on the Azure SDK 2.7, read the Azure team blog post here. ...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Jeff Fattic, who shows us how to use IntelliTest to automatically generate unit tests. IntelliTest explores your .NET code to generate test data and a suite of unit tests. For every statement in the code, a test input is generated that will execute that statement. A case analysis is performed for every conditional branch in the code. This analysis is used to generate test data for a parameterized unit test for each of your methods, creating unit tests with high code coverage.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Peaky Yuter, a Microsoft summer intern who worked on the Roaming Extension Manager. This very cool extension helps you keep track of your extensions across all of your development environments. It keeps track of the extensions you have installed by creating a synchronized list in the cloud. tracks which extensions you have installed and lets you choose which ones to are added to your Roaming list.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Chris Dias, who shows us Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code is code editing redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. It is free and available on your favorite platform — Linux, OS X, and Windows. In his demos, Chris builds a Node/JavaScript application and then an ASP.NET application.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Jordan Matthiesen, who shows us improvements to JavaScript editing in Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2015 improves the experience for JavaScript developers by focusing on three key areas: Improving the development experience when using popular JavaScript librariesAdding support for new JavaScript ECMAScript 2015 (also known as ES2015 and formerly ES6) language and web browser APIsIncreasing your productivity in complex JavaScript code basesJordan demonstrates enhancements in each of these areas.
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Visual Studio 2015 has released. In this episode, Robert and Dmitry Lyalin highlight and demo ten of their favorite features. Robert shows: Custom Window layouts [07:30]. Customize the position, size and behavior of windows to create window layouts that work best for various development workflows.Debugging Lambda expressions [11:00]. Evaluate lambda expressions in the Watch, Immediate, and other debugger windows.IntelliTest [15:30]. Automatically generate unit tests with high code coverage.Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer [21:40]. View the full visual tree and inspect the properties set on any element of a running XAML application.Xamarin Starter Edition [27:30]. Get started buil...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Ryan Salva, who shows us what's new in the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. These enable developers to use their HTML, CSS and JavaScript (or TypeScript) skills to write and debug Windows, iOS and Android apps. Ryan focuses on the most recent additions to the tools, including changes to the project system and support for the latest in modern Web technologies.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Mark Wilson Thomas, who shows us how Visual Studio 2015 helps you find and eliminate common coding issues as you code. You may have seen demos where light bulbs appear in the Visual Studio editor along with advice on how to fix the issue. Mark is on the team that created the infrastructure that makes that possible and he provides a good understanding of not only how and why that was added to Visual Studio but also how you can take advantage of it to fix coding issues as you go.
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In this episode, Seth Juarez guest hosts and is joined by Unni Ravindranathan, who shows off many of the improvements in XAML tooling in both Visual Studio 2015 and Blend for Visual Studio 2015. Some of these improvements are specific to Windows Universal Apps, but many are available to all XAML developers. Among the features Unni shows and discusses are a redesigned and more streamlined Blend [02:00]a much faster and more robust editing experience as a result of rewriting the XAML language service using Roslyn and decoupling the language service from the designer [18:25]inline peek definition in XAML enabling you to both view and edit code and XAML [20:20]support for regions in XAML [24:25...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Lucian Wischik and Anthony Green, who take us on a tour of the new features in Visual Basic 14. These new features are aimed at making your everyday code cleaner and clearer, at making common coding patterns simpler, and at removing boilerplate to let the intent of the code stand out. They also show several IDE enhancements as well as spend some time discussing Windows 10 development, the benefits of .NET Native and open source VB.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Torgersen, who takes us on a tour of the new features in C# 6 that aim at making your everyday code cleaner and clearer. Mads has spoken on this subject at both Build and Ignite. Mindful of this, Robert and Mads go beyond the demos and also talk about how and why C# gained these features as well as what role the open-source .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") plays.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Navit Saxena, who demonstrates building Universal Windows Apps with Visual Studio 2015. Navit reviews how to install the Windows 10 tooling, create adaptive apps, build UI for different device families and use platform and 3rd-party extension SDKs.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Hall, who shares a number of tips and tricks for using the debugging capabilities of Visual Studio. Some of the things Andrew shows are new in Visual Studio 2015, but many have been in the product for several versions. You are sure to find at least a few things here that will improve your debugging skills. You can find Andrew's sample project here.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Brian Lagunas and Brian Noyes to talk about the future of Prism. The Prism Library was created by Microsoft in 2008 and has grown into a mature set of guidance showing developers how to use proven patterns and development practices to create XAML based applications. Recently, Microsoft gave full control of the Prism Library to a new community team, headed by the two Brians (along with Ariel Ben Horesh). They met up with Robert at Build to discuss their plans. Resources The Future of the Prism Library on Brian Lagunas' blogPrism Library on GitHub
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This is the last of our second 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 Xamarin Insights, a new monitoring solution for all mobile applications. We get an indepth look at how to integrate Xamarin Insights into your iOS, Android, and Windows applications to get real time crash reporting of native and managed crashes. Then, we see how to monitor custom events and data and tie directly into popular services such as Visual Studio Online to get mission critical updates. Resources: Try Xamarin today: www.xamarin.comFollow James on Twitter and his personal blogXamari...
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This is the third of another 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. James takes us for a tour of CocosSharp, a Xamarin library for building 2D Windows, iOS and Android games from a shared C# code base. CocosSharp blends the power of the Cocos2D programming model with C# and the .NET Framework. James walks us through getting started with the Visual Studio templates and creating your first game. Resources: Try Xamarin today: www.xamarin.comFollow James on Twitter and his personal blogXamarin developer documentation and blogCocosSharp documentation and GitHub and samplesPart...
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In this episode, the first half of the second of two parts (in other words, part 2a :)), Robert continues exploring how you can modernize your existing WPF line of business applications and move to the cloud. The demo app uses WCF and SQL Server. In part 1, he showed how to move the app's data to Azure SQL and how to publish the WCF service to an Azure Web site. In this episode, he shows how to add authentication using Azure Active Directory and require users to sign in. This episode is based on a module in the Cloud-Enable a Windows Presentation Foundation LOB App course on the Microsoft Virtual Academy. That course goes into much more detail, particularly on Azure. The sample code and the...
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In this episode, the first of two parts, Robert begins exploring how you can modernize your existing WPF line of business applications and move to the cloud. The demo app uses WCF and SQL Server. He first moves the data to Azure SQL and then publishes the WCF service to an Azure Web site. And he doesn't have to touch the code in the app! This episode is based on the first half of the Cloud-Enable a Windows Presentation Foundation LOB App course on the Microsoft Virtual Academy. That course goes into much more detail, particularly on Azure. The sample code and the scripts used are available at http://1drv.ms/1CKbP1D. Check the Readme.txt file for the latest updates.
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In this episode, the first of two parts, Robert begins exploring how you can modernize your existing WPF line of business applications and move to the cloud. The demo app uses WCF and SQL Server. He first moves the data to Azure SQL and then publishes the WCF service to an Azure Web site. And he doesn't have to touch the code in the app! This episode is based on the first half of the Cloud-Enable a Windows Presentation Foundation LOB App course on the Microsoft Virtual Academy. That course goes into much more detail, particularly on Azure. The sample code and the scripts used are available at http://1drv.ms/1CKbP1D.
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This is the second of another 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. James shows us the new Xamarin Designer for iOS that is integrated directly into Visual Studio to design iOS applications. You don't need to use XCode to build the UI. You can stay in Visual Studio! We take a look at several features of the designer including auto-layout, constraints, and even custom controls. Resources: Try Xamarin today: www.xamarin.comFollow James on Twitter and his personal blogXamarin developer documentation and blogParts one, two, three and four of James' debut Xamarin series
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IntelliTrace automatically records the execution of your application without you performing any additional steps. Any time the debugger breaks the execution of the application (e.g. because a breakpoint is hit), the IntelliTrace UI is updated and displays the data that has been collected up until that point. In this episode, Robert is joined by Angelos Petropolous, who was on the show three weeks ago. Angelos returns to show us in more detail the enhancements made to how you use IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2015 for historical debugging.
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Robert welcomes James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, back on the show for another series on building cross-platform apps with Xamarin and C#. In this episode, part one of four, we take a look at Xamarin.Forms, a cross-platform UI toolkit that sits on top of Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Windows Phone. We will see how to share not only the business logic of an application, but also how to build a fully native cross-platform UI completely in XAML, including features such as data binding, styles, and triggers. Resources: Try Xamarin today: www.xamarin.comFollow James on Twitter and his personal blogXamarin developer documentation and blogParts one, two, three and four of Ja...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Dan Taylor, Angelos Petropoulos and Charles Willis to explore some of the enhancements to the diagnostic tooling in Visual Studio 2015. You'll see how these tools are now brought into the debugging process to make them easier to discover and use [01:20], what improvements have been made to IntelliTrace [03:45], a new feature named PerfTips that makes it easier to evaluate the performance of your app during debugging [14:00] and the new memory usage tool that runs while debugging [23:15].
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Dan Taylor, Angelos Petropoulos and Charles Willis to explore some of the enhancements to the diagnostic tooling in Visual Studio 2015. You'll see how these tools are now brought into the debugging process to make them easier to discover and use [01:20], what improvements have been made to IntelliTrace [03:45], a new feature named PerfTips that makes it easier to evaluate the performance of your app during debugging [14:00] and the new memory usage tool that runs while debugging [23:15].
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This is the seventh, and final, in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Brust for a discussion on data analysis. Although most developers have an interaction with data, they usually stop at collecting and maintaining it. Andrew explains why it is imperative that developers should also know how to visualize data and derive interpretations from it.
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This is the seventh, and final, in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Brust for a discussion on data analysis. Although most developers have an interaction with data, they usually stop at collecting and maintaining it. Andrew explains why it is imperative that developers should also know how to visualize data and derive interpretations from it.
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This is the sixth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Brian Randell for a discussion on DevOps and what it means for developers. Brian provides insight into the benefits of adopting DevOps, as well as some best practices.
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This is the sixth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Brian Randell for a discussion on DevOps and what it means for developers. Brian provides insight into the benefits of adopting DevOps, as well as some best practices.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Erik Ejlskov Jensen, author of the SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio. This extension adds several features to help your embedded database development efforts, including scripting of tables and data, imports from SQL Server and CSV files and more. In this episode, we focus on using this with SQLite. Check out Erik's blog for more information on the tool's features.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Erik Ejlskov Jensen, author of the SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio. This extension adds several features to help your embedded database development efforts, including scripting of tables and data, imports from SQL Server and CSV files and more. In this episode, we focus on using this with SQLite. Check out Erik's blog for more information on the tool's features.
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This is the fifth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Miguel Castro. They discuss how you approach new technologies, and in particular, how you approach the fact that as new techniques become available, there is more then one way of doing things. Specific examples they discuss are WCF/Web API and WebForms/MVC, but the approach and the way you think about this is broadly applicable.
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This is the fifth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Miguel Castro. They discuss how you approach new technologies, and in particular, how you approach the fact that as new techniques become available, there is more then one way of doing things. Specific examples they discuss are WCF/Web API and WebForms/MVC, but the approach and the way you think about this is broadly applicable.
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Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio combines the functionality of two popular Visual Studio extensions into one: Sample Browser and Bing Code Search. In this episode, Robert is joined by Scott Ge and Pravin Indurkar to explore what is new in the Bing Developer Assistant since the last time it was featured on the show. Scott and Pravin show the new Visual Studio IntelliSense experience, the ability to find both code snippets and code samples, and offline search.
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Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio combines the functionality of two popular Visual Studio extensions into one: Sample Browser and Bing Code Search. In this episode, Robert is joined by Scott Ge and Pravin Indurkar to explore what is new in the Bing Developer Assistant since the last time it was featured on the show. Scott and Pravin show the new Visual Studio IntelliSense experience, the ability to find both code snippets and code samples, and offline search.
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This is the fourth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse to discuss UI in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and see examples of natural user interfaces, fluid layouts and other things you can do in XAML to make apps more user friendly. Thanks to Phil for this exhaustive list of WPF resources: Interknowlogy website, with lots of WPF and Kinect case studies and demos From the InterKnowlogy Bloggers Setting up Test Data for Blend Triggers and States in Blend Text on a Path with Alignment Speech Recognition Transparent Windows in WPF Data Driven UIDs for WPF UI Testing WPF Te...
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This is the fourth in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse to discuss UI in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and see examples of natural user interfaces, fluid layouts and other things you can do in XAML to make apps more user friendly. Thanks to Phil for this exhaustive list of WPF resources: Interknowlogy website, with lots of WPF and Kinect case studies and demos From the InterKnowlogy Bloggers Setting up Test Data for Blend Triggers and States in Blend Text on a Path with Alignment Speech Recognition Transparent Windows in WPF Data Driven UIDs for WPF UI Testing WPF Te...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Scott Klein, host of the Data Exposed show. Scott shows us the SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio and demonstrates some scenarios when you can use those rather than leaving Visual Studio and using external tools such as SQL Server Management Studio.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Scott Klein, host of the Data Exposed show. Scott shows us the SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio and demonstrates some scenarios when you can use those rather than leaving Visual Studio and using external tools such as SQL Server Management Studio.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Lasker and Merwan Hade, who show us how Visual Studio 2015 makes it much easier to connect to cloud services. The new Connected Services dialog hides much of the complexity involved in connecting to services, blending together Getting Started guidance, with a wizard-based approach for finding relevant services, getting the right connection libraries, and configuring the services. Steve and Merwan show connecting to a Salesforce service and talk about other service providers you can expect to be added. Resources Steve (@SteveLasker) and Merwan (@merwanhade) on TwitterConnecting to Cloud Services on VS team blogConnected Services documentation
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Lasker and Merwan Hade, who show us how Visual Studio 2015 makes it much easier to connect to cloud services. The new Connected Services dialog hides much of the complexity involved in connecting to services, blending together Getting Started guidance, with a wizard-based approach for finding relevant services, getting the right connection libraries, and configuring the services. Steve and Merwan show connecting to a Salesforce service and talk about other service providers you can expect to be added. Resources Steve (@SteveLasker) and Merwan (@merwanhade) on TwitterConnecting to Cloud Services on VS team blogConnected Services documentation
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This is the third in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Rocky Lhotka for an in-depth and very engaging conversation on modern app development and how developers should think about building apps in what Rocky calls "the post mobile world".
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This is the third in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Rocky Lhotka for an in-depth and very engaging conversation on modern app development and how developers should think about building apps in what Rocky calls "the post mobile world".
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In this episode Robert is joined by Andrew Hall, who shows us improvements to debugging in Visual Studio 2015. He shows enhancements to how you configure breakpoint settings that make it easier to work with breakpoints [01:00], the ability to execute lambda expressions in the Immediate and Watch windows [10:00] and how the C++ debugger can unfreeze threads in a process so locked functions can execute [15:45].
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In this episode Robert is joined by Andrew Hall, who shows us improvements to debugging in Visual Studio 2015. He shows enhancements to how you configure breakpoint settings that make it easier to work with breakpoints [01:00], the ability to execute lambda expressions in the Immediate and Watch windows [10:00] and how the C++ debugger can unfreeze threads in a process so locked functions can execute [15:45].
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RTM is now available for download. Robert and Dmitry Lyalin - along with special guests Aaron Bjork and Rong Lu from the engineering team - take you through the many new features, highlighting and demoing web editor improvements (HTML, CSS, JSON), various new capabilities in Team Foundation Server such as Git pull requests, updated tooling for Azure WebJobs and the new GPU usage analyzer. For more information: Soma's blogBrian Harry's blogVisual Studio team blogSlides
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RTM is now available for download. Robert and Dmitry Lyalin - along with special guests Aaron Bjork and Rong Lu from the engineering team - take you through the many new features, highlighting and demoing web editor improvements (HTML, CSS, JSON), various new capabilities in Team Foundation Server such as Git pull requests, updated tooling for Azure WebJobs and the new GPU usage analyzer. For more information: Soma's blogBrian Harry's blogVisual Studio team blogSlides
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Johannes Kebeck, who shows us how easy it is to use Bing Maps in applications. Johannes reviews several features of Bing Maps, demonstrates how you can use the Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0 Interactive SDK to see what JavaScript code you would write to perform a variety of actions with maps and shows both a Web and Windows Store project in Visual Studio using Bing Maps. Resources: Bing MapsChoose your Bing Maps APIBing Maps for Windows Store AppsBing Maps AJAX Control, Version 7.0Bing Maps WPF ControlBing Maps BlogJohannes BlogThe Typhoon tracker demo
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Johannes Kebeck, who shows us how easy it is to use Bing Maps in applications. Johannes reviews several features of Bing Maps, demonstrates how you can use the Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0 Interactive SDK to see what JavaScript code you would write to perform a variety of actions with maps and shows both a Web and Windows Store project in Visual Studio using Bing Maps. Resources: Bing MapsChoose your Bing Maps APIBing Maps for Windows Store AppsBing Maps AJAX Control, Version 7.0Bing Maps WPF ControlBing Maps BlogJohannes BlogThe Typhoon tracker demo
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Previously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Chuck Sterling showed how to load test your Web Sites so that you can see how well your software responds to various levels of usage. In this episode, Chuck returns to show that it is now much easier to set up load testing. You can do this right from the Visual Studio Online home page! Chuck has Robert create and run a load test to confirm that a performance issue has been fixed in a demo app. For more information, check out his blog post, as well as Brian Harry's.
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Previously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Chuck Sterling showed how to load test your Web Sites so that you can see how well your software responds to various levels of usage. In this episode, Chuck returns to show that it is now much easier to set up load testing. You can do this right from the Visual Studio Online home page! Chuck has Robert create and run a load test to confirm that a performance issue has been fixed in a demo app. For more information, check out his blog post, as well as Brian Harry's.
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This is the second in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Brian Noyes, who shows us Prism 5 for WPF. Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain WPF desktop applications. Brian takes us on a tour of Prism and how easy it is to use it in your applications. Click here for more information on Prism 5.0 for WPF.
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This is the second in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Brian Noyes, who shows us Prism 5 for WPF. Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy to maintain WPF desktop applications. Brian takes us on a tour of Prism and how easy it is to use it in your applications. Click here for more information on Prism 5.0 for WPF.
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Nick Landry. Nick shows AzureChatr, a cross-platform chat app that he built to demonstrate mobile development techniques with a cloud backend. AzureChatr lets you chat live in real-time with other users in a global chat room. Nick walks us through some of the code and shares some best practices for building apps in a cloud-first mobile-first world. Resources: Blog post about AzureChatr, the project, the features, download links and source codeInstall AzureChatr for Windows Phone 8.1Universal Windows app source code on GitHubAndroid app source code on GitHubiOS app source code on GitHubGet started with the Microsoft Azure trialNick's blogFollow Nick on Tw...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Nick Landry. Nick shows AzureChatr, a cross-platform chat app that he built to demonstrate mobile development techniques with a cloud backend. AzureChatr lets you chat live in real-time with other users in a global chat room. Nick walks us through some of the code and shares some best practices for building apps in a cloud-first mobile-first world. Resources: Blog post about AzureChatr, the project, the features, download links and source codeInstall AzureChatr for Windows Phone 8.1Universal Windows app source code on GitHubAndroid app source code on GitHubiOS app source code on GitHubGet started with the Microsoft Azure trialNick's blogFollow Nick on Tw...
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Olivier Block and Salvador Ramirez, who talk about and show the just released beta update to the .NET Micro Framework SDK, which adds support for Visual Studio 2013. Olivier and Salvador show how easy it is to write C# applications that run on resource constrained embedded devices, including sensors and robots. Resources: .NET Micro Framework team blog.NET Micro Framework website.NET Micro Framework on CodePlex
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In this episode, Robert is joined by Olivier Block and Salvador Ramirez, who talk about and show the just released beta update to the .NET Micro Framework SDK, which adds support for Visual Studio 2013. Olivier and Salvador show how easy it is to write C# applications that run on resource constrained embedded devices, including sensors and robots. Resources: .NET Micro Framework team blog.NET Micro Framework website.NET Micro Framework on CodePlex
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This is the first in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Billy Hollis, who shows us how you can use data templates in XAML to create more interesting and easier to understand user interfaces. Download Billy's sample code here. Note: there are occasional audio issues in this video.
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This is the first in a series of shows featuring speakers from the VSLive conference, which was held in Redmond in August. In this episode, Robert is joined by Billy Hollis, who shows us how you can use data templates in XAML to create more interesting and easier to understand user interfaces. Download Billy's sample code here. Note: there are occasional audio issues in this video.
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Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a free, open source plugin that turns Visual Studio (including Express!) into a Python IDE. In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Dower, who shows how PTVS provides Python developers all of the goodness of Visual Studio, including IntelliSense, local and remote debugging and more. He also discusses why developers who have not used Python before might want to give it a try.
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Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a free, open source plugin that turns Visual Studio (including Express!) into a Python IDE. In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Dower, who shows how PTVS provides Python developers all of the goodness of Visual Studio, including IntelliSense, local and remote debugging and more. He also discusses why developers who have not used Python before might want to give it a try.
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