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Visual Studio 2010 Essential Training

with Walt Ritscher

In Visual Studio 2010 Essential Training, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to use Visual Studio 2010 Professional to develop full-featured applications targeting a variety of platforms. Starting with an overview of the integrated developer environment, the course covers working with code editors, navigating and formatting code, and deploying applications. Also included are tutorials on running performance and load tests, and debugging code. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Creating a Visual Studio project
Building the user interface
Binding to an RSS feed
Coding with IntelliSense
Creating rich Internet applications with Silverlight
Building Windows applications with Windows Forms
Integrating with SQL Server
Working with Microsoft Office applications
Understanding extensibility in Visual Studio
Working with data, ADO.NET and datasets
Using source control

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author: Walt Ritscher
subject: Developer
software: ASP.NET , Silverlight , Visual Studio 2010
level: Intermediate

duration: 8h 9m
released: Nov 16, 2010

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Introduction 2m 3s

Welcome 1m 2s

Using the exercise files 1m 1s

1. Getting Started 7m 19s

Understanding the Visual Studio versions 3m 51s

Setting up your developer computer 3m 28s

2. Exploring the Visual Studio Workspace (IDE) 58m 2s

Creating a Visual Studio project 4m 58s

Working with Solution Explorer 6m 32s

Working with big projects 3m 53s

Taking a tour of the Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) 8m 36s

Introducing drag-and-drop UI design 7m 38s

Working with the Properties window 6m 44s

Looking at Server Explorer 7m 4s

Exploring the new Help engine 6m 41s

Setting options for the IDE 5m 56s

3. Building a Simple Application 39m 25s

Creating a simple WPF application 1m 32s

Building the UI with the editors 9m 14s

Working with the application code 3m 37s

Communicating with the web site 7m 15s

Connecting your data 8m 4s

Binding to an RSS feed 5m 4s

Packaging and deploying the application 4m 39s

4. Exploring the Code Editors 39m 46s

What languages are supported in Visual Studio 2010? 1m 17s

Exploring basic settings for the Code Editor 5m 35s

Writing a C# program 6m 48s

Writing a VB program 6m 29s

Working with C++ 6m 38s

Working with F Sharp 6m 9s

Font and color options 6m 50s

5. Working with Code 1h 5m

Formatting your code 6m 43s

Navigating your code 7m 44s

Using the Task List 2m 26s

Commenting your code 2m 45s

Documenting your code 8m 26s

Using IntelliSense effectively 7m 0s

Working with code snippets 6m 25s

Refactoring your code 5m 15s

Understanding code generation 2m 10s

Generating code with T4 6m 29s

Using the Class View, Class Designer, and Class Diagram tools 5m 51s

Refactoring VB with CodeRush Xpress 4m 33s

6. Understanding the Project Types 1h 11m

Working with project and item templates 8m 38s

Creating a console application 7m 5s

Creating a class library 6m 26s

Creating a web site with ASP.NET 7m 37s

Creating a rich internet application with Silverlight 6m 57s

Creating a classic Windows application with Windows Forms 10m 31s

Creating a dramatic Windows application with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4m 41s

Creating a WCF service 9m 1s

Using an existing WCF service 6m 38s

Navigation UI designs with the Document Outline view 3m 41s

7. Digging Into Your Data 33m 18s

Creating a data project with SQL Project 6m 24s

Clarifying the confusion on .NET Data 3m 31s

Using ADO.NET in your application 6m 50s

Creating typed datasets 7m 55s

Using the data binding tools 8m 38s

8. Debugging Your Application 30m 13s

Debugging code 9m 32s

Working with the Watch and other debug windows 7m 46s

Other debugging techniques 6m 50s

IntelliTrace historical debugging in Visual Studio Ultimate 6m 5s

9. Testing Your Application 17m 56s

Understanding Visual Studio editions and test tools 2m 22s

Verifying your code with unit tests 8m 58s

Running performance and load tests 6m 36s

10. Deploying Your Application 34m 5s

Building your application 4m 19s

Customizing the build process with MSBuild 6m 36s

Setting assembly information 2m 12s

Deploying a basic Windows application 2m 19s

Creating an installer with Visual Studio 7m 39s

Creating a ClickOnce application 5m 13s

Setting up IIS for deploy 2m 9s

Deploying a Silverlight or ASP.NET application 3m 38s

11. Working with Source Control 14m 0s

Understanding source control 2m 9s

Setting up Team Foundation Server source control 3m 5s

Using Team Foundation Server source control 8m 46s

12. Integrating with Microsoft Office Applications 17m 31s

Understanding the .NET Office integration 4m 16s

Making a Word 2010 application 7m 54s

Making an Excel 2010 add-in 5m 21s

13. Extending Visual Studio 31m 34s

Understanding the extensibility model in Visual Studio 2m 17s

Adding external tools to the Tools menu 4m 42s

Creating macros 7m 16s

Using the Extension Manager 5m 1s

Creating an MEF add-in 7m 9s

Deploying and installing an add-in with VSIX 5m 9s

14. Configuring Your Application 25m 34s

Working with configuration files 5m 37s

Using the Settings Editor 7m 30s

Using the Resources Editor 6m 59s

Localizing your resources 5m 28s

Conclusion 1m 17s

Goodbye 1m 17s

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