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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

Introduction


In Chapter 3, Web Development, we looked at web development, and how Visual Studio supports web developers. Of course, the .NET Framework is also useful for writing traditional desktop applications and server-side programming.

In this chapter, we turn the spotlight on Visual Studio 2015's support for the .NET platform for non-web applications. We will look specifically at functionality that has been added or enhanced. This chapter will start by discussing what was included with the .NET Framework 4.5, and then move on to discuss the new features found in 4.6.1.

You should be aware that like its previous version, .NET Framework 4.5, Framework 4.6.1 is an in-place upgrade of its 4.x predecessors. This means that while you may have only one version of the 4.x series installed, they will run side by side with the earlier versions of the framework (version 3.5 SP1 and its predecessors).

Note

Be aware that, like the previous 4.5 release, .NET Framework 4.6.1 is not supported on Windows...