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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)

Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Standard

Visual Studio 2017 provides you with an easy and comfortable way to build a NuGet package for .NET Standard libraries. .NET Standard Library is a formal specification of the .NET APIs, which are intended to be available on all .NET runtimes. .NET Standard Library defines a uniform set of Base Class Library (BCL) APIs for all the .NET platforms, and enables developers to produce portable class libraries that can run in all .NET runtimes.

Let's first create a .NET Standard class library. Create a new project by selecting Class Library (.NET Standard) under the Visual C# | .NET Standard templates, as shown in the following screenshot. Give it a proper name, select the location where you want to create the project, and hit OK:

Once the project gets created, create the class files that you want to bundle with your package and...