Enabling Continuous Value Delivery in TFS 2012 with Justin Marks

Book Adam Now 8 minutes. (Short Version or scroll down to see the Long Version) Adam Cogan sits down with Visual Studio Program Manager Justin Marks to discuss: The concept of Continuous Value Delivery Testing Defining the Project – Value Definition and Ideation (a new American word something to do with Ideas and Creation) Delivering…

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October Software News with Adam Cogan

In this month’s news, Adam Cogan discusses: Windows Surface (price announcement) Office 2013 RTM SharePoint 2013 DDD Brisbane (December 1st 2012) – call for content www.webplatform.org – A new wiki for software developers Enterprise MVC Course (SSW) Xbox Music – 30 million tracks Scott Guthrie – Windows Azure for building Mobile Apps — Want to…

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Visual Studio 2012 – is it worth the dollars?

Book Adam Now All the way from Texas, Chris Menegay – an IT Specialist and Entrepreneur (currently working at Microsoft) – sits down with Adam Cogan to talk about Visual Studio 2012; specifically on whether Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate is worth the extra dollars. In this interview, they talk about: Chris’s job at Microsoft as…

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How to get up and running quickly with ASP.NET MVC

Adam Cogan sits down with Mark Liu, Solution Architect at SSW, to discuss what developers need to hit the ground running when working with ASP.NET MVC. Mark offers three great tips: Leverage twitter bootstrap to get a great looking and functional app. Use repository pattern in business logic Utilize Kendo UI controls Comments? Questions? Leave…

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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…

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Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Never Use Web Forms Again

Find out in less than 4 minutes the Top 5 Reasons to ditch Web Forms and move over to MVC already! #1: Testability– MVC provides true separation of concerns, and makes it easy to test the whole application from Unit Tests to Coded UI Tests. #2: Instant Pages – Get your admin pages up and…

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