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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)

Using the new Run to Click feature in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 provides a new feature, named Run to Click, which makes the debugging steps easy. Whenever you are in a debugging context, you can mouse hover on any line to let the IDE show you a green icon near to the line. You can then click on that icon to instruct the debugger to execute to that line and break for the next instruction. This is similar to the menu item, Run to Cursor, but with easier steps to execute:

It is often useful to debug from one line of a code block to another by clicking just the icon, instead of placing breakpoints on each line. This option is enabled by default, but you can disable/enable it any time from Visual Studio Options | Debugging | General, as shown in the following screenshot: