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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)

Layouts in WPF

Layout is an important part of any GUI-based application, for usability purpose. You must arrange your controls in a proper position, so that, the user can find it easy to work. You should also keep arranging your controls properly to scale them in different screen resolutions and/or different font sizes. WPF provides a built-in support of various panels to help you on this:

  • Grid: This defines a flexible area to position UI elements in rows and columns.
  • StackPanel: This defines an area where the child elements can arrange in stack fashion horizontally or vertically.
  • Canvas: This defines an area to set the UI elements by coordinates relative to the area specified.
  • DockPanel: This defines an area which you can arrange horizontally or vertically, relative to each other.
  • WrapPanel: This defines an area where child elements can position themselves sequentially from...