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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Scott Hanselman's huge list of dev tools are awesome! Some of them I didn't know that exist are really super helpful in making a dev's life easier. Bookmark it now!

Check out Scott Hanselmans Awesome Dev Tools List

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Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (09) Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

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And where would we be if we could not scale it all up or down. This flexibility can be provided with Windows Azure. Here you will see how Windows Azure fits in with mobile services, virtual machines while managing caching and storage.

• [01:20] - Azure signup
• [08:45] - Single serving sites
• [15:36] - Azure command line
• [20:06] - Wrap-up

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (08) Real-time Communication with SignalR

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In this segment the instructors go over SignalR, and an incredibly simple real-time web for .NET. It will also provide an overview for real-time hit counter, what SignalR is and how to build a chat application, a multi-player game and load balancing SignalR.

• [08:00] - Demo - Move shape
• [29:18] - SignalR or service bus
• [36:56] - Real-time gaming
• [44:20] - Chat application

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (07) Building for the Mobile Web

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This module will provide and overview of adaptive rendering in ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 focused on mobile web. This is especially important since mobile is fast becoming the primary way people browse the web.

• [08:24] - Adaptive rendering - change the client
• [11:24] - Display modes - change the server

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (06) Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET

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In this session you will see how to build a social web app using ASP.NET. In addition you will see a demo of how social authentication works with social web applications such as Facebook, Google, Yammer, LinkedIn, etc.

• [03:02] - OAuth flow
• [06:34] - Demo - OAuth and OpenID
• [27:47] - Facebook applications

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (05) Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps

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Get ready to see several Demos leveraging ASP.NET skills to build apps for Office specifically using HTML 5+ jQuery and ASP.NET Web API. This module will also go into further details regarding apps for Office and how they work.

• [01:25] - HTML5 and jQuery for Office 2013
• [07:53] - Adding ASP.NET Web API
• [12:24] - What is an App for Office

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (04) Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API 

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Have you always want to know how to build a service layer with ASP.NET Web API? This segment shows how ASP.NET Web API fits in, and how to consume Web API from jQuery and Windows 8.

• [01:32] - Introduction to Web API
• [14:40] - Consuming Web API from jQuery
• [20:44] - Consuming Web API from Windows 8

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (03) Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery

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This module introduces you to the new standards of HTML5 and provides a demo of how powerful it is. Additionally you will see how it works with ASP.NET MVC 4, jQuery overview, Visual Studio Web Tools, Web Essentials and SPLA Template.

• [02:31] - Introduction to HTML5
• [13:13] - HTML5 markup
• [27:06] - jQuery overview
• [48:04] - Visual Studio web tools

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (02) Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4 Enjoy!

In this sessions the instructors will go over ASP.NET MVC 4 and provide several demos on creating a new site; adding a model, controller and view, to entity framework code first. Lastly they will demo how to deploy to Windows Azure Web Sites.

• [01:26] - Intro to ASP.NET MVC
• [03:58] - Creating a new ASP.NET MVC site
• [15:19] - Adding a model, controller, view
• [34:57] - Deploying to Windows Azure Web Sites

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start: (01) What's New in ASP.NET 4.5 

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This module will review what's new in ASP.NET 4.5. It will provide an overview of strongly typed data controls and model binding in web forms, friendly URLs, pager inspector, Visual Studio Web Editor features and so much more.

• [02:51] - Web development overview
• [10:48] - ASP.NET Web Forms model binding
• [20:27] - Bundling and Optimization
• [39:53] - Page inspector
• [43:58] - Async

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5
• Mod 02: Building and Deploying Websites with ASP.NET MVC 4
• Mod 03: Creating HTML5 Applications with jQuery
• Mod 04: Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API
• Mod 05: Leveraging Your ASP.NET Development Skills to Build Office Apps
• Mod 06: Building and Leveraging Social Services in ASP.NET
• Mod 07: Building for the Mobile Web
• Mod 08: Real-time Communication with SignalR
• Mod 09: Taking Advantage of Windows Azure Services

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