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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

Getting started with a Bootstrap-based SPA


VS2015 ships with numerous templates and project types available for creating web applications. Since the rest of the chapter will be much more useful with a sample project available, we will use this recipe to create a new ASP.NET Single Page Application using C# and Bootstrap.

Bootstrap is a popular open source framework for frontend web development. It provides a dynamic, mobile-first design, which automatically reacts in a useful way to the resizing of browser windows, thus lending itself to easily accommodate the wide range of phones and tablets in use today.

A default Bootstrap-themed web application will look similar to the following screenshot:

In this recipe, we will create a new ASP.NET single page application to see Bootstrap in action.

Getting ready

You can use Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web, Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, or any of the premium editions for this recipe.

How to do it…

We'll start off by creating a new project to see...