On Demand training on latest web technologies

 

Programming with HTML5 and related technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/4f39070b-c435-4de5-9f50-0d2852c1dfbe

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for Web Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/90b79e80-eae9-47c8-a4f4-a2431e62178d

ASP.NET MVC3 Development with Visual Studio 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/fd907f28-bcbd-4a00-871f-4be5965d3764

Code-First Development with Entity Framework

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/966167f3-9da3-422b-ab7c-0ecedd3ae5f2

Web Sockets & Indexed DB

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/83478b2d-e2c2-427d-8a05-7e795efa03f0

Building cross browser compatible websites

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/in/details/0ed592c6-cf3b-495b-8e22-48f530f89f3b

Feedback on Visual Studio ALM or TFS

Now you can directly provide feedback on TFS to the team in terms of new features which you want to see in next version. You can also vote on existing new features requested.

Reach to this site for providing feedback

http://visualstudioalm.uservoice.com/forums/100197-visual-studio-alm

Whitepaper on exploit mitigation technologies

A new whitepaper has been recently published which discusses about various exploit mitigation technologies and how to use them. Release by Microsoft Security Engineering Center.

A must for every person on software development team. Covers following:

• economics of exploitation – attacker’s return on investment
• Tactics behind exploit mitigation technologies like enforcing variants, creating artificial diversity, leveraging knowledge deficits
• exploit mitigation technologies like
• Stack buffer overrun detection
• Data execution prevention (DEP)
• Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)
• SAFESEH and Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection (SEHOP)
• Heap metadata protection
• Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)
• For each technology it also mentions following:
• Overview
• How to use
• Proof point
• Performance consideration
• Compatibility considerations
• Availability on various OS/platforms including browser versions

Download the whitepaper from here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26788

Watch what is coming in next one year.

Even if you are not visiting Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference currently running, make sure you watch the keynotes LIVE/Recorded to get glimpse of all the products coming in next one year.

Here are few of them :

• Windows Phone ‘Mango’
• Windows 8
• Windows Server 8
• System Center 2012
• …lots of other cool stuff.

Visit http://www.digitalwpc.com

What’s new in Visual Studio vNext ?

There are still few months before we start getting the beta of Visual Studio vNext including TFS but the recent public announcements and demos have already created lot of excitement.
This will be a next major release after Visual Studio 2010.
Here are few of the important features coming up in ALM space.

• Onboarding Stakeholder & Operations teams on TFS
• Storyboarding tool primarily for Stakeholders
• Stakeholder feedback Tool
• Enhanced TFS web for backlog and iteration planning
• Scrum Board
• TFS connector for SCOM. This will allow operations team to directly log production issues from SCOM into TFS. Beta is already available for this and can be downloaded and installed.
• Code Review inbuilt into TFS.

For further detailed reading, have a look at following links:
Visual Studio vNext Roadmap
Visual Studio vNext ALM Foundational Session