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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about Windows Presentation Foundation, its architecture, XAML syntaxes, inline code, code behind, the WPF project structure, and XAML designer. We have also covered how to work with XAML markup to design a Windows application by discussing WPF controls, command-line parameters, and layout panels.

Apart from these, we discussed the new property system with an example of the dependency property, data binding and its implementation, converters, and various types of triggers.

Since we have now become familiar with XAML markups in this chapter, we can now move on to another new topic on building Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications. Here, again, we will use XAML and C# to build applications targeting Windows 10 device families.