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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a UWP app


One of Microsoft's goals for UWP apps is to truly make them universal so that they run on any system based on the core Windows 10 technology—not only traditional desktop computers, but devices ranging from Raspberry Pi, to Xbox One, to Microsoft's new HoloLens.

In this recipe, we will begin by creating a brand new UWP app to see how the process differs from Windows 8.X app creation, and the new capabilities made available to us.

Getting ready

Windows 10 is required for this recipe. Visual Studio Community will be used to provide the example screenshots, but of course, a premium edition or VS Express for Windows 10 would also be suitable.

How to do it...

The types of app templates available has changed with VS2015 and Windows 10. Let's begin by creating a Blank App. For our example, we will use C#:

  1. From Visual Studio's File menu, navigate to New | Project…

  2. A dialog showing the available project templates will appear. From the Installed templates category, navigate to the Visual...