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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 learned about the debugger execution steps and how to debug C# code using breakpoints. Here we covered organizing breakpoints, setting conditional breakpoints, hit counters, breakpoint filters, actions, and labels. We also covered how to manage breakpoints in code using the Breakpoints window of the Visual Studio debugger tools and discussed how to import/export them.

Apart from this, we discussed Data Tips in detail. We discussed pinning/unpinning Data Tips and the various watch windows, visualizers, importing/exporting Data Tips, and the usages of the debugger display attribute.

At the end, we discussed Immediate Window, Visual Studio Diagnostics Tools, the all new Run to Click feature, debugging an existing process, and debugging the UI of an XAML application. The XAML debugging covered the Live Visual Tree, and Live Property Explorer window, and...