Visual Studio 2010 best practices / Peter Ritchie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ritchie, Peter.

Series:

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Visual studio.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Ritchie Peter: Peter Ritchie is a software development consultant. Peter is president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co. , a software consulting company in Canada's National Capital Region specializing in Windows-based software development management, process, and implementation consulting. Peter has worked with such clients as Mitel, Nortel, Passport Canada, and Innvapost from mentoring to architecture to implementation. Peter has considerable experience building software development teams and working with startups towards agile software development. Peter's range of experience ranges from designing and implementing simple standalone applications to architecting distributed n-tier applications spanning dozens of computers; from C++ to C#. Peter is active in the software development community attending and speaking at various events as well as authoring various works including Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Summary:

Learn and implement recommended practices for the complete software development lifecycle with Visual Studio 2010

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Working with Best Practices; Recommended practices; Intransitive ""best"" practices; Benefits to using practices; Avoiding pragmatic re-use; Reducing technical debt; Not invented here syndrome; Beyond practices; Using katas; Reaching kaizen; Aspects of a practice; Evaluating practices; Documenting practices; Geographic distribution; Team size; Regulatory compliance; Domain complexity; Organizational distribution; Technical complexity; Organizational complexity

Enterprise disciplineLife cycle scope; Paradigm; Categorization; In this book; Evolving practices-a collaborative effort; Axiomatic practices; Patterns; Why practices?; An empirical and not a defined process; Cross-cutting concerns; Focus on the value; The power of mantras; Summary; Chapter 2: Source Code Control Practices; Terminology; Repository; SCC; Edit/merge/commit; Lock/edit/check-in; Trunk; Branch; Fork; Merge; Check-out; Check-in; Changeset; Lock; Commit; Push; Pull; Tag/label; Shelving/shelvesets; Principles; Recommended SCC software evaluation criteria; Workflow model

Total cost of ownershipIntegration options; Team dynamics and location; Self or third-party hosting; Authentication; Organizing for source code control; Organizing directory structures; Solution structure; Continuous integration; Branching strategies; Isolation; Ad hoc isolation; Testing isolation; Release isolation; Feature isolation; Team isolation; Commit (check-in) practices; Merge remote changes before commit; Commit frequently; Atomic commits; Occasionally connected source control; Distributed source control; Summary; Chapter 3: Low-level C# Practices; Working with generics

Limits of genericsWriting sequence and iterator members; Working with lambdas; Working with extension methods; Exception handling; Exceptions to the exception practices; Summary; Chapter 4: Architectural Practices; Terms; Decoupling; Command Query Separation; Data Transfer Objects (DTO); Single responsibility; Layering; Data-Based applications; Object Relational Mappers (ORMs); NoSQL; Document Databases; Pulling it all together; Distributed architecture; Messaging; Data synchronization and events; DTOs Revisited; Summary; Chapter 5: Recommended Practices for Deployment

Working with installersWorking with Windows Installer; Uninstalling; Visual Studio Setup and Deployment projects; Setup Wizard; Setup Project; Web Setup Project; Merge Module Project; CAB Project; File System; File types; User interface; Launch conditions; Custom actions; Drawbacks of Setup and Deployment Project; ClickOnce; Windows Installer XML (WiX); Include files; Fragments; Migrating from Setup and Deployment projects; Integrating into Visual Studio; Setup Project; Merge Module Project; Setup Library Project; Bootstrapper Project; C# Custom Action Project; C++ Custom Action Project

Continuous integration

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613906465

9781283594011

1283594013

9781849687171

184968717X

OCLC:

810317547