Category Archives: Visual Studio

Hands On: Universal Apps @ Reston VA

By Shahed C on January 30, 2016
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I will be hosting a Hands-On Workshop on Universal Apps at the DC MS Devs meetup group @ Microsoft’s Reston VA office on March 24, 2016.

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/DC-MS-Devs/events/228461569/

  • Date/Time of Event: Thursday, March 24, 2014 @ 6:30pm
  • Location: Microsoft, 12012 Sunset Hills Rd., Reston, VA
  • Instructions: Come up to Room 3054 (3rd floor)

Learn how you can build Universal Apps using Microsoft dev tools and technologies!

Windows 10 now has more than 200 million users worldwide, and its users are more engaged with the Windows Store than ever! Learn about how Universal Windows Apps can be built for various device families:

  • PC (desktop, laptop, tablet)
  • Mobile (smartphones)
  • Xbox
  • Surface Hub
  • HoloLens

In this Hands-On Workshop, you will learn how to build a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app on your laptop. You will also get an introduction to exciting features such as voice control, adaptive UI and cloud connectivity.

You will also get a brief look at how to use 3rd-party game development tools to export to UWP.

You should arrive with the following:

  • Laptop with Windows 10
  • Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition ok)

Optional:

  • Unity 5 (Personal Edition ok)
  • Construct 2 (Free Edition ok)

 

 RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/DC-MS-Devs/events/228461569/

Microsoft Web Tour 2016 @ Reston VA

By Shahed C on January 28, 2016
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Register for FREE here: https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x834687628

Microsoft Web Tour 2016 @ Reston VA

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Starts: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 8:30 AM
Ends: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:00 PM
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:30 AM
Venue: Microsoft Office, Reston
Address: 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston Virginia 20190, United States
Meal: Yes
Presenter(s): Mostafa Elzoghbi, Shahed Chowdhuri,
Language(s): English.
Product(s): ASP.NET 5 (aka ASP.NET Core 1.0), Angular, Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code
Audience(s): Pro Dev/Programmer.

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Deploy Your Web Site or Web App on Azure

By Shahed C on December 4, 2015
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Are you building a web application? Learn how you can deploy it to Microsoft’s Azure cloud using Visual Studio, Git/GitHub or FTP!

Video: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/CloudDevWithShahed/Deploy-Your-Web-Site-Web-App-on-Azure

Download PPTX: https://wakeupandcode.com/public_downloads/azure-web-deploy.pptx

SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/shahedC3000/deploy-your-web-site-or-web-app-on-azure

 

 

Microsoft Connect 2015 Recap

By Shahed C on November 19, 2015
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Have you caught up with all the news from Microsoft’s Connect() 2015 online conference?

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Read all the details here:

TL;DR below…

  • Visual Studio Code beta release, Added extensibility support, open source project
  • .NET Core 5 RC and ASP.NET 5 RC with Go-Live license, can start using it in production
  • Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services, agile team collaboration and DevOps
  • Visual Studio Dev Essentials, priority forum support, Pluralsight, Wintellect,, Xamarin, (Azure early 2016)
  • Visual Studio cloud subscriptions
    • Monthly subscriptions include the VS Pro or Enterprise IDE, access to VSTS
    • Annual subscriptions includes technical support incidents, Azure credits, etc
  • Visual Studio Marketplace, central place to find, acquire, install extensions for all editions of Visual Studio
  • VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1, will both happen on November 30th.
  • Xamarin 4 support. end-to-end solution to build, test, monitor native mobile apps with VS2015 Update 1
  • iOS Build with MacinCloud on VSTS, currently in preview at $30/month per agent with no limits on build hours

Additional Announcements

There are also more than 70 on-demand videos with additional details on:

Enjoy! 🙂

ASP.NET 5 Overview @ BaltoMSDN

By Shahed C on October 22, 2015
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I presented ASP.NET 5 at BaltoMSDN on Wednesday, October 21, 2015. We also covered some bonus material on Unit Testing in ASP.NET 5. Here is the presentation material with the slides, links and my contact information.

Download PPTX or view slideshow below

SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/shahedC3000/aspnet-5-overview-post-rtm

 

The following presentation material on Unit Testing was put together for a live audience for my in-person presentations.

 Download Sample Project file

Download PPTX or view slideshow below

SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/shahedC3000/aspnet-5-unit-testing