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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)

Unit testing with Visual Studio 2017

As we have already discussed this new feature, its configuration settings, and the way to start and stop live unit testing, let's begin demonstrating with a live example. Let's first create a console application for a demo.

Getting started with configuring the testing project

Open your Visual Studio 2017 IDE, go to File | New | Project| Console App (.NET Framework) as the project template. Create the project by giving it a name (in this example, we are naming it ConsoleApp).

Now, create a class named Person and inherit it from the ICloneable interface (just for this demonstration). Implement the interface to generate a Clone() method, which will by default throw NotImplementedException...