Visual Studio .NET -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

Visual Studio .NET

Microsoft continues to deliver updates at a rapid pace. In 2014, Microsoft released quarterly updates to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) on-premises and the Visual Studio Online (VSO) service saw updates about every three weeks. Then at the end of 2014, they released the first public preview of Visual Studio 2015. 2015 promises to be an exciting release with new versions of Visual Studio, TFS, and continued updates to VSO, not to mention Microsoft's exciting venture into more open source and cross-platform development. From ALM to DevOps and core code cutting, Microsoft has a ton of new stuff that you need to learn. Visual Studio Live! gives you the information you need to understand and leverage the power of .NET, Visual Studio, ALM, DevOps, and the .NET Framework today and into the future. Topics in this track include:

Sessions focused on Visual Studio 2013 (and 2015 preview), .NET 4.5 and C# 6.0
ALM, Visual Studio tooling and Visual Studio Online
Asynchronous programming
DevOps best practices and shipping code

M03 Workshop: ALM and DevOps with the Microsoft Stack Monday September 28 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn to get the most out of your tools so you can deliver great solutions. more

T16 Defensive Coding Techniques in C# Tuesday September 29 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Come and learn how to shore up your code's defenses to protect it from bugs, other developers, and your future self. more

W04 What's New in C# 6.0 Wednesday September 30 9:15am - 10:30am

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

This session will cover new C# 6.0 features and how they work in detail. more

W08 Using Microsoft Application Insights to Implement a Build, Measure, Learn Loop Wednesday September 30 10:45am - 12:00pm

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Learn how you can enable Application insights for your applications and how you can use the information to better support your team. more

W12 Enhancing Application Quality Using Visual Studio 2015 Premium Features Wednesday September 30 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Anthony Borton, ALM Consultant & Trainer, Enhance ALM

Learn how you can use features in Visual Studio Premium to enhance your application quality and build better software. more

W16 Automated Cross Browser Testing of Your Web Applications with Visual Studio CodedUI Wednesday September 30 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Learn to build cross browser automated test suites using Visual Studio CodedUI and integrate it with Microsoft Test Manager. more

W20 Managing the .NET Compiler Wednesday September 30 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

Get a tour of the elements behind this new API. more

TH04 Not Your Grandfather's Build - A Look at How Build Has Changed in 2015 Thursday October 1 8:00am - 9:15am

Anthony Borton, ALM Consultant & Trainer, Enhance ALM

This session is for any dev team member wanting to learn about the exciting world of Build in Visual Studio ALM. more

TH08 Async Patterns for .NET Development Thursday October 1 9:30am - 10:45am

Ben Dewey MVP, Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division, Tallan, Inc

This session is a deep dive into asynchronous development using .NET. more

TH12 DevOps and ALM-Better Together Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate Thursday October 1 11:00am - 12:15pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this session, Brian will cover what you need to know related to ALM and DevOps with the Microsoft stack. more

TH16 To Git or Not to Git for Enterprise Development Thursday October 1 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

See Git from the perspective of a Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server user and discuss the ins, outs, and gotchas of using Git for large-scale, enterprise software development. more

TH20 Load Testing ASP.NET & WebAPI with Visual Studio Thursday October 1 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Learn what you need to run your load tests in the cloud using Visual Studio Online or on-premise with a Load Test Rig. more