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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)

Debugging XAML application UI

Visual Studio 2017 provides a very good feature to make the XAML app development easier. You can now edit your XAML code of a WPF or UWP application, when the application is running in debug mode. You don't have to recompile your project to view the changes. You will automatically see it in the live application as and when you are modifying the markup.

Just as with F12 - Developer Tools of browser applications, you can now navigate to the Visual Tree of XAML page when the application is running in debug mode and attached with the Visual Studio 2017 debugger tool.

Overview of XAML debugging

Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer are two tool windows which will help you to perform XAML...