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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2017 is the all-new IDE released by Microsoft for developers, targeting Microsoft and other platforms to build stunning Windows and web apps. 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. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2017 offers, but also what it takes to put it to work for your projects. Visual Studio 2017 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book will get you started with the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2017 IDE and C# 7.0. Next, you will learn to use XAML tools to build classic WPF apps, and UWP tools to build apps targeting Windows 10. Later, you will learn about .NET Core and then explore NuGet, the package manager for the Microsoft development platform. Then, you will familiarize yourself with the debugging and live unit testing techniques that comes with the IDE. Finally, you'll adapt Microsoft's implementation of cloud computing with Azure, and the Visual Studio integration with Source Control repositories.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Local functions or nested functions

C# 7.0, which comes with Visual Studio 2017, allows you to write local functions or nested functions. The local function provides you with the ability to declare methods/functions inside an already defined methods body. It has the same capability as normal methods, but it will be scoped to the method block where they are declared.

In earlier versions of C#, we needed to write the method bodies separately and then we needed to call one method from the other. Here is the old way to write a method called by another method:

     public static Person GetBloggerDetails() 
     { 
       return new Person 
       { 
         FirstName = "Kunal", 
         LastName = "Chowdhury", 
         Blogs = GetBlogs() 
       }; 
     } 
 
     private static List<string> GetBlogs() 
     { 
       return new List<string> { &quot...