Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Unleashed:
by Mike Snell, Lars Powers

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 “Windows 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

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Publisher: Sams Publishing
Page Count (est.): 1149
ISBN10: 0672336251
ISBN13: 9780672336256
Cover: Paperback
Pub Date: 11/14/2012