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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)

Building your own XAML control

A custom control is a loosely coupled control defined in a class which derives from Control. The UI of custom control is generally defined in a resource dictionary inside the resource file. We can create themes for custom control and reuse them in various projects very easily.

Button, CheckBox, TextBox, and so on, even ListView and GridView, are nothing but custom controls. You can easily load them inside an XAML page.

It's not always possible to use only default control sets that come with the SDK. Sometimes, it is useful to create our own custom control, expose its required properties, and design the template from scratch as per our need.

A custom control generally inherits from the System.Windows.Controls.Control class. You may derive from a different custom control also depending on your requirement.

Custom controls are compiled into a DLL...