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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)

Getting started with Universal Windows Platform

In Windows Phone 7, the operating system was based on Windows CE, which was the operating system for small devices, but different from the OS that covers the big Windows.

When Microsoft launched Windows Phone 8, they swapped out the Windows CE operating system and based it on the Windows NT kernel. This was the same for PCs and Xbox One.

But with Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft delivered it on a converged developer platform with the option to build applications targeting the universal 8.1 app platform that shares a high percentage of the code.

With the launch of Windows 10, it changed again. The code has been improved further and generalized to provide a single set of APIs to create a single app which can run on all device families running the Windows 10 operating system. They named it Universal Windows Platform (UWP...