Professional Visual Studio 2012

Get savvy with Visual Studio 2012

This expert Wrox guide is exactly what you need to get up and running quickly with Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the exciting features of the integrated development environment (IDE)—such as code snippets, refactoring, and patterns—while also showing you how to maximize all the latest tools and significant improvements to the technology. The in-depth coverage as well as numerous illustrative examples go a long way to get you up to speed so you can start using Visual Studio 2012 right away.

Professional Visual Studio 2012:

• Explains how to use the class designer, server explorer, IntelliSense, and bookmarks
• Takes a thorough look at unit testing, documentation with XML comments, code tools, and language-specific features
• Explores ASP.NET applications (including MVC 4), Office business applications, and Windows Store applications
• Addresses a wide variety of data resources, such as visual database tools, datasets and databinding, and more
• Demonstrates how to use the debugging windows, debug with breakpoints, and advanced debugging techniques
• Highlights customizing and extending Visual Studio

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Bruce Johnson is a principal consultant with ObjectSharp Corporation. He has been published in a wide variety of technology periodicals and has given more than 500 presentations at user conferences. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.