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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)

Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Azure development

Before you start building Azure applications from Visual Studio 2017, you need to configure it by installing the required workloads. If you have not already installed the Azure development workload, open your Visual Studio 2017 Installer.

As shown in the following screenshot, click on Modify to start customizing the instance of the IDE:

This will open the customization screen with the Workloads tab open. Scroll down to find the Azure development workload and select it. If you want to build ASP.NET applications, select the ASP.NET and web development workload, as shown in the following screenshot:

When you are ready, click the Modify button to start the installation process. This will take some time, based on your internet bandwidth, to download and install the required components.

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