Microsoft Visual Studio ─ 2015 Unleashed

Where other books may concentrate on the .NET or WinRT runtime or one of the various .NET languages,Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed is a deep dive into the Visual Studio tool. Specifically, this book provides solid guidance and education to developers that allows you to get the most out of the Visual Studio development environment. This book folds in real-world development experience with detailed information about the IDE to make developers more productive, and also ease the transition from other development environments (including prior versions of Visual Studio).

Since Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has continued to refine and improve both the breadth and depth of the Visual Studio tool suite. This edition includes two major releases (Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2014).Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed focuses, in depth, on how to use the Visual Studio IDE to perform a myriad of programming tasks. It will bring you up to speed from Visual Studio 2012.

Key additions/changes to this edition include:

• Tighter integration with Azure
• Windows Phone 8.1 development
• Windows 8.1 development
• Hosted Visual Studio/Visual Studio online
• ASP vNext
• Single-page web apps (SPA)
• Cloud / Office Business Application projects
• CodeLens/Peek Definition
• “Monaco”

Mike Snell spends his work life helping teams build great software that exceeds the expectations of end users. He runs the Solutions division at CEI (www.ceiamerica.com ). Mike and his team deliver architecture, consulting, and mentoring to clients looking for help with enterprise projects, commercial software, mobile applications, or cloud-based solutions. He is also a Microsoft Regional director.

Lars Powers is currently the director of application development at Newgistics, Inc. Prior to Newgistics, he held various technical management positions at 3M and spent many years with Microsoft as a platform evangelist focused on emerging technologies.