SkillSoft Explore Course – Lambers, Inc.

IT Professional Curricula Software Development Solution Area Microsoft .NET Visual Studio for New Users

Contemporary software runs on an ever growing number of platforms, devices and hardware. Your development environment should be able to accommodate publishing to as many of these as possible. Due to Visual Studio 2015's extensible nature, a wide variety of frameworks and tools can be integrated to enable development on many platforms. In this course you will learn about using Visual Studio 2015 to develop web-based applications and services. You will also learn about developing mobile applications as well as managing and versioning your code.

Asset ID	wd_vsaa_a02_it_enus
Course Type	Video Course
Course Category	Software Development Solution Area

Objectives
Application Life Management start the course describe the Git version control software identify features and benefits of GitHub connect to the GitHub versioning service create a GitHub repository publish your work to GitHub use Team Foundation Server with Visual Studio Web Development describe programming models for creating interactive web content using ASP.NET with Visual Studio use the Model-View-Controller paradigm with ASP.NET describe the Web API framework for building web services use Bower to manage project dependencies use Gulp to manage building your project use Grunt to perform build operations in your project use TypeScript to develop a web application use SignalR to push content to clients in real time Client Development use AngularJS to create a client-side web app identify tools for styling applications use Knockout to create an MVVM client use Bootstrap to improve and style your user interface Mobile Development develop an app using the Universal Windows platform use Xamarin to target Android and iOS platforms use Apache Cordova to develop mobile applications develop multi-platform games with Unity and Visual Studio Cross-platform Development develop cross-platform apps with the .NET Execution Environment target code to the CoreCLR, the classic .NET Framework, or both use Node.js tools with Visual Studio Accessing Data use Entity Framework to access database objects use Cloud Explorer to work with Azure resources Practice: Universal Windows Platform develop a basic UWP application

Objectives

Application Life Management

start the course
describe the Git version control software
identify features and benefits of GitHub
connect to the GitHub versioning service
create a GitHub repository
publish your work to GitHub
use Team Foundation Server with Visual Studio

Web Development

describe programming models for creating interactive web content using ASP.NET with Visual Studio
use the Model-View-Controller paradigm with ASP.NET
describe the Web API framework for building web services
use Bower to manage project dependencies
use Gulp to manage building your project
use Grunt to perform build operations in your project
use TypeScript to develop a web application
use SignalR to push content to clients in real time

Client Development

use AngularJS to create a client-side web app
identify tools for styling applications
use Knockout to create an MVVM client
use Bootstrap to improve and style your user interface

Mobile Development

develop an app using the Universal Windows platform
use Xamarin to target Android and iOS platforms
use Apache Cordova to develop mobile applications
develop multi-platform games with Unity and Visual Studio

Cross-platform Development

develop cross-platform apps with the .NET Execution Environment
target code to the CoreCLR, the classic .NET Framework, or both
use Node.js tools with Visual Studio

Accessing Data

use Entity Framework to access database objects
use Cloud Explorer to work with Azure resources

Practice: Universal Windows Platform

develop a basic UWP application