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Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook

By : Richard Banks
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Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook

By: Richard Banks

Overview of this book

<p>There’s a new technology wave coming, and for Microsoft this is reflected in Windows 8, HTML5 web development, .NET 4.5 and C++11. Riding that wave is a new version of their flagship development tool, Visual Studio 2012, and "Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook" has you putting the new features into practice from the get-go! <br /><br />Among the exciting new features of Visual Studio 2012 is support for Windows 8, HTML5 and asynchronous development, as well as Team Foundation Server 2012 integration. “Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook” doesn’t waste time explaining what you already know from prior Visual Studio versions; instead you’ll see targeted and focused recipes on only new features so that you can get up to speed and back to work faster.<br /><br />“Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook” empowers you to take advantage of all the new features in Visual Studio 2012 so that you can develop applications for the next technology wave.</p> <p>The task-based recipes in this guide will have you up and running with improvements like support for Windows 8 development, HTML5 and JavaScript, .NET 4.5, asynchronous code and C++11.</p> <p>And since most people don’t develop alone, you’ll also see how the new team development features of Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 can help your whole team work smarter, not harder.<br /><br />Time is short and you’re in a hurry, so “Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook” will help you discover what’s new by way of a simple recipe format that is quick and easy to digest.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Dave McKinstry has over 20 years professional experience in computer systems, including programming and system administration on VAX minicomputers through development and architecture in Microsoft technologies. For the past dozen years, he has been helping clients adopt modern technologies and best practices for application development.

He is currently the ALM practice manager for Microsoft's 2011 ALM Partner of the year, Imaginet Resources. Before merging with Imaginet, he was a founding partner with Notion Solutions.

He was a Technical Reviewer on Architecting Web Services (ISBN 1-893115-58-5).

Anand Narayanaswamy is an ASPInsider who works as a freelance technical writer based in Trivandrum, India. He has worked as a Technical Editor/Reviewer for various publishers such as Sams, Addison-Wesley, Mc Graw Hill, Packt Publishing, and ASPAlliance.com. He has expertise in the installation, management, and usage of popular ASP.NET and PHP based blogs/Content Management Systems (CMS). He is the author of Community Server Quickly (www.packtpub.com/community-server/book) published by Packt Publishing, and can be reached at . His tweet handle is @anandenclave.

Justin "JT" Taylor has been developing software for fun and profit for the last 12 years. He has worked on a variety of technologies throughout his career, but most recently has focused his craft on utilizing Microsoft XAML based technologies, WPF, Silverlight, and WinRT. Working with Readify, he provides opinions (of which he has many) and expertise to clients to help them get the most out of their software development efforts. He prefers to remain somewhat nomadic in nature, changing his place of residence as fast as the landscape of the industry he loves so much. If he weren't working in the software industry, he would most like to be caped and cowled, fighting crime on the mean streets of Gotham City.