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Introduction -- Integrated development environment. A quick tour ; The solution explorer, toolbox, and properties ; Options and customizations ; The Visual Studio workspace ; Find and replace and help -- Getting started. Solutions, projects, and items ; Intellisense and bookmarks ; Code snippets and refactoring ; Server explorer ; Modeling with the class designer -- Digging deeper. Unit testing ; Documentation with XML comments ; Code consistency tools ; Code generation with T4 ; Project and item templates ; Language-specific features -- Rich client applications. Windows forms applications ; Windows presentation foundation (WPF) ; Office business applications -- Web applications. ASP.NET web forms ; ASP.NET MVC ; Silverlight ; Dynamic data ; Sharepoint ; Windows Azure -- Data. Visual database tools ; Datasets and databinding ; Language integrated queries (LINQ) ; The ADO.NET entity framework ; Reporting -- Application services. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ; Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) ; Client application services ; Synchronization services ; WCF RIA services -- Configuration and resources. Configuration files ; Connection strings ; Resource files -- Debugging. Using the debugging Windows ; Debugging with breakpoints ; Datatips, debug proxies, and visualizers ; Debugging web applications ; Advanced debugging techniques -- Build and deployment. Upgrading with Visual Studio 2010 ; Build customization ; Assembly versioning and signing ; Obfuscation, application monitoring, and management ; Packaging and deployment ; Web application deployment -- Customizing and extending Visual Studio. The automation model ; Add-ins ; Macros ; Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) -- Visual Studio Ultimate (available online). Visual Studio Ultimate for architects ; Visual Studio Ultimate for developers ; Visual Studio Ultimate for testers ; Team foundation server. |
