Visual Studio 2012 - is it worth the dollars? - SSW TV - Learn from Professional Software Developers

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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 a Developer Solutions Specialist
Why Visual Studio Ultimate is not that expensive
New tools in Visual Studio 2012
Intellitrace and Chris’s wishes for more guidance
Test Manager and how it is for organized companies
Exploratory Testing
How Lab Manager is useful for manual and automated testing
Intellitrace: How bugs should be logged to a build and to a test case, which links back up to a User Story

About the speakers

Chris Menegay

For the past 15 years, Chris has been a founder, leader and manager of IT organizations as well as a technical expert, most recently in Microsoft technologies. As an IT leader, he has developed extensive leadership, management, financial, sales and marketing experience.

Chris a passion for process improvement and problem solving both within IT and business in general.

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