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What’s new for ALM in Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013

What’s new for ALM in Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 – Adam Cogan

Book Adam Now The latest versions of Visual Studio and TFS bring some great new features for developers, Product Owners, testers, and even the crusty old stakeholders. More than ever, TFS integrates the whole ALM story to help you deliver your project on time and on budget. In this session, we’ll quickly recap the best…

What’s New in Visual Studio 11 and C++ and Why You Should Care with Artur Laksberg

C++ and Visual Studio – Why C++ isn’t dead | Adam Cogan and Artur Laksberg

Book Adam Now Adam Cogan sits down with Artur Laksburg of Microsoft to discuss Visual C++ and Visual Studio 11 They discuss: C# Why C++ Again? Vectorization Auto Vectorization & Auto Parallelization Runtime Parallelism and Concurrency Parallel Bubble Sort Project Building C++ AMP CPU vs GPU

July Software News with Adam Cogan

July Software News with Adam Cogan

This month in software: Windows 8.1 Douglas Englebart Firefox Mobile Devices Microsoft Reorg Xbox One TechEd Australia VS 2012 Update 3 VS 2013 preview Nokia 925 – Nokia 1020

Visual Studio 2012 with Jamie Cool

Visual Studio 2012 with Jamie Cool

Adam Cogan interviews Jamie Cool from Microsoft about the new Visual Studio 2012 Jamie showed Adam the new Visual Studio 2012 and what a fantastic insight into the early Beta it was. Jamie demoed only the best features. In this interview, we cover: The philosophy behind the new design to the new Team Explorer The…

SSW Webinar: The pros and cons of using LightSwitch to speed up your development

The Pros and Cons of Using LightSwitch to Speed Up Your Development

SSW’s Mehmet Ozdemir, Solution Architect, is the host of this Webinar. He is joined by Andrew Coates, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, to talk about the pros and cons of using LightSwitch. They discuss: Introduction to LightSwitch and how it fits into Visual Studio The LightSwitch Architecture (Client Tier; Middle Tier; Data Access) Example library application…

How to implement Scrum using Team Foundation Server 2012 with Gerard Beckerleg

How to Implement Scrum Using Team Foundation Server 2012 with Gerard Beckerleg

Today, 84% of Agile teams are using Scrum. Gerard will guide you through what’s new in Team Foundation Server 2012, changes in the Visual Studio Scrum template, how to use the new Agile project management tools, and many other best practices. He will create and manage a product backlog, forecast and plan work for a…

Why C++ is Better Than C# with Kate Gregory

Why C++ is Better Than C# with Kate Gregory

Kate Gregory explains in language that a C# guy can understand, what is cool about C++ She then explains: Templates vs Generics Libraries C++ AMP C# Bottlenecks/Pitfalls Unit Testing – Testing code with code Bad Habits with Clients Visual Studio Writing for iPhones/iPads Show Notes Learn more from Kate about the C++ language: bit.ly/kate_pluralsight C++…

Improved HTML5 Coding with Mark Michaelis

Improved HTML5 Coding with Mark Michaelis

Adam Cogan and Mark Michaelis discuss: Continuous Testing Compiling Programming languages JavaScript Q-Unit J-Query Testing with different UI’s Dependancy Graphs

Video thumbnail for youtube video User Voice and Visual Studio 2012 with Doug Turnure of Microsoft - SSW TV

User Voice and Visual Studio 2012 with Doug Turnure of Microsoft

Adam Cogan interviews Doug Turnure, the man in charge of all user feedback involving TFS and Visual Studio over at Microsoft. They cover:

  • Doug’s history at Microsoft
  • How Doug manages and orginazes the feedback using User Voice
  • Furture versions of User Voice
  • Indepth look at how Doug uses User Voice to monitor feedback
  • Top feedback suggestion submitted by users

Doug lead’s the feedback and early adoption strategy for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. This includes both strategic planning and driving process improvements, which can get fairly complex for a distributed team of more than 1000 people.
His specific areas include pre-release technology adoption by enterprise customers, Improved listening systems for better conversations with customers, and end-to-end process improvement for handling customer feedback.