Microsoft Visual Studio: 2012 Unleashed

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 significantly improves developer productivity across virtually all application lifecycle management tasks, while providing first-class support for Windows 8, Windows Phone, WindowsRT, and Windows Azure cloud development. This end-to-end deep dive will help working developers squeeze maximum productivity out of Microsoft€s powerful new toolbox.

 

The authors combine authoritative and detailed information about Microsoft€s latest IDE, with extensive insights and best practices drawn from decades of development experience. Developers will quickly get comfortable with Visual Studio 2012€s revamped interface and discover multiple opportunities to leverage the updated .NET 4.5 platform it supports.

 

By focusing entirely on Visual Studio 2012 Professional, the authors have gone deeper into Microsoft€s core product than ever before. You€ll find expert coverage of everything from debugging through refactoring, automation through enterprise-class development. Throughout, this book€s focus is relentlessly practical: how to apply Microsoft€s tools to build better software, faster.

 

Detailed information on how to...

·         Use Visual Studio 2012€s new interface to significantly improve your productivity

·         Make the most of VS 2012€s new WPF-based code editor

·         Work with solutions, projects, browsers, explorers, and designers

·         Create modern €œWindows Store€ applications for Windows 8 and Windows RT apps with VS 2012 and Windows Runtime Library

·         Develop websites with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and the Razor View Engine

·         Create richer, smarter user interfaces for software of all types

·         Build robust service oriented architecture (SOA)-based systems

·         Construct data-centric applications with LINQ and Entity Framework

·         Develop SharePoint and other Microsoft Office business applications

·         Write Windows Azure applications that live in the cloud

·         Instrument, analyze, and test your software

·         Refactor code for greater robustness, maintainability, and performance

·         Leverage brand-new improvements to Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation

              Use VS 2012€s one-click web deployment capabilities

              Extend VS 2012 with Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and Automation Object Model