Learn how to manage database connections, manipulate tables, query data, and deploy Azure and SQL Server databases in Visual Studio 2015.

Learn how to use C# and Visual Studio for Mac to generate simple console, command-line, and desktop applications that run natively on macOS.

In this course, instructor Jon Galloway offers up an introduction to Visual Studio for Mac, the integrated development environment for .NET applications from Microsoft. With Visual Studio, you can build all the different programs, apps, websites, and services that you can build with .NET, but with a user interface and tools to help you get started and be more productive as you’re developing. Jon guides you through the basics of installing Visual Studio, and gives a tour of the most important features it has to offer, like code navigation, debugging, testing, and collaboration. After installing the free software, he shows you how to create a C# app, compile it, and debug it. Jon also shows how to get more involved with the large .NET and Visual Studio communities, ranging from livestreams to in-person meetups.

Want to work smarter with Visual Studio? This series of tips and tricks are each less than a minute long, so you can transform your Visual Studio workflow in your spare moments. Learn how to use Tabify and Untabify to fix inconsistent spacing, use multiple carets to select and edit text, and rename classes and namespaces to match file and folder names. Discover how to refactor If statements and get a file path from the editor tab. Plus, see how to clone the Solution Explorer window to quickly do a side-by-side comparison of project structures across projects.

Discover tips and techniques that can make working in Microsoft Visual Studio simpler, faster, and more interesting. In this course designed for .NET developers, Walt Ritscher shines a spotlight on helpful shortcuts and productivity boosters for Visual Studio. He dives into a variety of topics, including filtering views, using custom keyboard commands, grouping files with tabs, duplicating code, and previewing files. Plus, learn about helpful extensions that augment the power of Visual Studio.

Work smarter with Visual Studio. Get practical tips that can help you streamline your web development workflow and make your developer environment a more pleasant place to visit.

Learn how to develop Azure projects with the Azure-specific tools in Visual Studio.

Learn how to work with the built-in Azure DevOps tools in the Visual Studio IDE. Discover how to leverage Azure Repos, Boards, and Pipelines in your DevOps workflow.

Get the most out of your Visual Studio debugging sessions. Learn about several powerful debugging tools and features that help pinpoint problems in your application code.

Prefer working with an IDE instead of the command line? Discover how to use Git, the defacto distributed source control tool, effectively within Visual Studio. Throughout this course, instructor Walt Ritscher delves into the mapping between Git and GitHub commands and the tools in Visual Studio. After going over key Git concepts, commands, and GUI tools, Walt shows how to initialize a new repository with PowerShell, Visual Studio, and GitHub. He then shows how to add, rename, move and delete files; add a remote repository; clone and fork a repository; and view and handle merge conflicts. Plus, see how to work with branches, create, review and compare pull requests, and more.

Find out how Visual Thinking Strategies, the "look and think" teaching methodology, can help educators bridge the gap between teaching and learning in the classroom.

The first step to leadership is self-awareness. In this hands-on leadership course, instructor Nevada Lane provides an effective and fun way to build self-awareness through visualization. First, Nevada helps you to identify life events that influenced your development and growth as a leader. She asks you to identify people who have inspired you and to articulate the core principles that drive your own leadership approach. Next, Nevada walks you through identifying your leadership strengths and values. She shows you how to state a vision for what you want to create or how you want to be. Then Nevada encourages you to identify a quote that summarizes an aspect of your values, principles, or vision. She has you pull all these pieces together and build a leadership story graphic. In conclusion, she helps you to identify ways to use your leadership journey graphic, including sharing it with others.

Discover how to make intentional choices about the technology you develop and use. Learn about an approach to help you make the right decision when faced with uncertainty.

Learn the ins and outs of vlogging. Explore the philosophy behind vlogging, and discover techniques and gear that can help you create a compelling video blog for your business.

Learn how to leverage VMware Cloud on AWS to migrate vSphere-based environments to the cloud and access the full range of AWS services.

Get up and running with VMware Horizon View 7.5, a leading platform for virtual desktops and applications. Learn what you need to know to administer a Horizon View environment.

VMware NSX is the most disruptive network technology in recent memory. Demand for employees who understand NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series of courses, VMware Certified Instructor Rick Crisci helps you understand all the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. Rick begins with basic networking. He covers networking fundamentals like the OSI model, Layer 2 switching, and maximum transmission units (MTU). Rick goes into ethernet broadcasts, the spanning tree protocol (STP), and base IP standards. He also discusses virtual networking basics like the vSphere standard switches and distributed switches. This course helps you prepare for the VMware VCP-NV exam. To take the VCP-NV exam, you will need to complete some course requirements from VMware. Be sure to check those requirements, as well, as you prepare to get certified.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

VMware NSX is the most disruptive network technology in recent memory. Demand for employees who understand NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series of courses, VMware Certified Instructor Rick Crisci helps you understand all the concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. This course highlights management and transport nodes in a vSphere environment. Rick walks you through managing NSX-T with the management plane, the control plane, and the data plane. He explains the architecture and Controller concepts for NSX, then goes over Controller plane sharding. Rick shows you each step in preparing transport nodes for NSX-T, including a useful demo of configuring hosts and VMkernel ports for NSX-T. He concludes with a discussion of uplinks and teaming. This course helps you prepare for the VMware VCP-NV exam.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Demand for employees who understand VMware NSX will continue to grow as the product reaches maturity. In this series of courses, Rick Crisci steps through each of the key concepts behind NSX-T 3.0. In this installment, Rick shines a spotlight on logical switching. Learn how logical switching is done within NSX-T, explore the integration between vSphere 7 and NSX-T, review the tables that make up the control plane of the N-VDS Layer 2 segments, and more. Along the way, Rick provides demos that showcase how these concepts function in the real world.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Continue your journey towards mastering the fundamentals of VMware NSX—one of the most disruptive network technologies in recent memory. In this installment of the VMware NSX-T 3.0 Essential Training series, Rick Crisci steps through each of the key concepts behind routing in NSX-T 3.0. Learn about logical routing; design options for routing with NSX-T; how to work with active-active services routers; Edge nodes and how to run network services that cannot be distributed; and more. Along the way, Rick provides demos that showcase how these concepts function in the real world.

Note: This course was created by Rick Crisci. We are pleased to host this training in our library.