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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
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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

Using Visual Studio for Node.js development


The open source Node.js platform has become a popular way to deploy server-side applications written in JavaScript. Node.js can be hosted by numerous operating systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix variants, and Windows. If you are interested in developing for Node.js, you will be pleased to learn that you can use your existing Visual Studio knowledge with Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS).

This toolset provides a powerful new way to write Node.js applications while using Visual Studio to provide important features—including an IntelliSense-powered editor, debugging and profiling, and the Node.js package manager npm. In this recipe, we will see how VS2015 can be expanded to support Node.js development.

Getting ready

This recipe will require a bit more preparation than usual. The good news is that the NTVS supports VS2015 Community, premium editions, and VS2015 Express for Web—which means that a paid version of VS2015 is not required.

You can obtain NTVS...