Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information, and services. F# 3.0, to ship in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform.

The next release of Visual Studio has a major new language feature in VB/C#, “Async”. It will make for more responsive UIs, better performing web ASP websites, better network coding, and easier use of Phone/Silverlight/Windows APIs. Come to this talk to learn how it works and how to use it effectively. Learn how the .NET framework is changing to adapt to the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern. Learn what you should be doing right now to make your code ready for Async when it gets released.

This video guides you through what’s new in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012, changes in the Visual Studio Scrum template, how to use the new Agile project management tools and many other best practices.

This video discusses singletons, and when to use them.The Singleton is a well-known pattern in software. It’s got a lot of bad reputation too, since it makes testing more difficult. It has even come to being called “Evil”.

This video provides a demonstration of many of the features included in the CloudFormation template editor for Visual Studio, part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio that makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications using Amazon Web Services.