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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)

Testing the NuGet package locally

When you are done building your final NuGet package, you may want to push/upload it to the NuGet gallery. It could be the gallery hosted at nuget.org, a third-party gallery, or a local repository, but before that, you may want to test it locally. This you can achieve by creating a local package store.

To create the local package store, open the NuGet Package Manager Settings by navigating to the Visual Studio menu hierarchy, Tools | NuGet Package Manager | Package Manager Settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

From the left-hand navigation panel, navigate to NuGet Package Manager | Package Sources. On the right-hand panel, it lists all the available package sources and the machine-wide package sources. Click the icon to add a new package source:

This will provide you with a field to define the new package source. Give it a name and...