Visual Studio
The State of .NET with Markus Egger [Full Presentation]
A free, unbiased look at current and future development! The industry is in a state of flux. What does that mean for your software projects today and tomorrow? Will your skills be outdated? Will your current investment become obsolete? What should you focus on right now? And what will become important a year or two…
Read MoreWhat’s New in Visual Studio 2017 + VS Code | Adam Cogan
Visual Studio 2017 is a great step forward for developer productivity. Thanks to a new/refreshing/cool/awesome change of attitude, Microsoft is embracing the winning tools in the development space and is building them into the next version of Visual Studio. The open sourcing of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core along with the release of the free…
Read MoreTest & Feedback (was Exploratory Testing) Chrome extension 2017 – Adam Cogan’s interview with Product Owner Ravi Shanker – Microsoft Seattle
Ravi Shanker and Adam Cogan talk about the test improvements in Visual Studio Team Services and the Chrome Exploratory Testing extension. Ravi demos some impressive new features like screenshots and performance reports that are attached to Bug Work Items. They finish off with the new VSTS metrics screen, which tracks tests and outcomes. Related rule:…
Read MoreNDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with John Bristowe (Hybrid Native)
NDC made its way to Sydney this year and SSW TV was there to catch all the action. As usual there were a host of top industry pros talking about various subjects related to software development. SSW TV was there to run the ‘Ask Me Anything’ booth, where we grabbed some of those speakers after…
Read MoreHanselman Unplugged 2 – Back Down Under
Scott Hanselman was in Australia as a special guest presenter at NDC Sydney. Scott was awesome enough to stop in at SSW to give a talk at an extra-special Sydney .NET users group. In this session, audience members were given the unique opportunity to ask any questions they wanted to Scott. Scott was incredibly “edutaining”…
Read MoreExploratory Testing Chrome extension 2016 – Adam Cogan’s interview with Product Owner Ravi Shanker – Microsoft Seattle
Ravi Shanker and Adam Cogan talks about the new Chrome Exploratory Testing extension for Visual Studio The extension use various capture formats- notes, screenshots with annotations, user action logs, and videos. Test your applications on real devices using cloud providers like Perfecto, or test them on browser-based emulators. Related links: Do you do exploratory testing?…
Read MoreIntroducing Entity Framework Core: Everything you need to know | by Brendan Richards
Entity Framework Core (previously known as EF7) has been self-described as “Microsoft’s recommended data access technology for new applications in .NET” EF Core is effectively a complete rewrite of Entity Framework designed to work in more places and with more persistence stores so you can use non-SQL data sources. This talk covers: What has changed…
Read MoreMastering ReSharper | Dev SuperPowers Episode #18 | Danijel Malik
Being a great professional requires from you to write high quality code and being fast at the same time. Unless you have a great toolset this certainly isn’t an easy task. Luckily the market is full of extensions for Visual Studio which can boost your productivity. One of those tools is ReSharper. In this session…
Read MoreNew unit testing features in Visual Studio 2015 | Terje Sandstrom
Visual Studio 2015 adds a new Unit Test Generator feature, which can generate test skeletons, including project files. It can generate for multiple frameworks, currently MSTest, NUnit and XUnit. In the case of the latter two, nuget packages are also automatically included. VS 2015 also includes Intellitest, a framework for generating tests parametrized data driven…
Read MoreHow to build your own Visual Studio Extension | Dev Superpowers Episode #14 | Danijel Malik
Visual Studio is an awesome development tool, but what really makes it great are the extensions you can find in the Visual Studio Gallery. You’ve at least heard about ReSharper, WebEssentials, JustCode and tools that can make your life a little bit simpler. Now what if you wanted to write something of your own, where…
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