Monthly Meetup: Visual Studio 2015 with Randy Pagels

Instead of having our meetup on the 2nd Thursday of the month as usual, our June meetup will be on June 25th in Spud Software's brand new building!

Visual Studio 2015 is one of the biggest releases ever, with major changes to the entire .NET ecosystem! There’s Roslyn, support for native Windows, iOS, and Android app/game development, cross-platform mobile development tools, ASP.NET vNext, productivity enhancements, broadened support for commonly-used libraries/frameworks/utilities, ALM enhancements, Application Insights… wow! It can be tough to wrap your head around all the changes, so come us for quick guided exploration of the many new Microsoft technologies you can add to your developer toolkit.

As a Sr. Developer Technology Specialist, Randy Pagels (https://twitter.com/randypagels) serves as a field expert for Microsoft’s flag-ship development and application lifecycle management tools, specifically Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Team Foundation Server, Test Professional, Lab management, Release Management, and Azure dev/test scenarios. Randy helps Inspire customers to build modern software across desktops, tablets, and phones and illuminate Microsoft's integrated tools and platform story across connected devices and continuous services. His responsibilities include presenting a variety of technical topics (from version control, work item tracking, testing practices, requirement practices, and ALM solutions) for individual customers or at larger events, developing content for events, and helping customer understand the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s development technologies.

As always, we will start off with complementary food/pop/water and socializing, followed by a featured speaker.