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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 had an overview of NuGet package manager, and learned about its usage and the process to use it in a project/solution. We also learned how to create a NuGet package library for .NET Framework and .NET Standard. We discussed the NuGet spec file, versioning mechanism, dependencies, conditional dependencies, and the method to target NuGet package for multiple .NET Frameworks.

Finally, we discussed how to create a local package source to test a package before publishing it to a store, and how to publish it to NuGet Gallery using the nuget.org portal.

In the next chapter, we will learn the new debugging techniques available in Visual Studio 2017, along with Breakpoints, DataTips, Diagnostic Tools, and XAML UI debugging.