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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)

Creating an Azure website from Visual Studio

As we have already learned how to create an Azure website from the Azure Management Portal, let's learn how to create the same from Visual Studio 2017. Make sure that you have the required components/workloads already installed (see Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Azure development from this chapter).

Creating an ASP.NET Web Application

Once you are ready with creating an ASP.NET website and deploying it to Azure, open your Visual Studio 2017 instance. Create a new project by navigating to Templates | Visual C# | Cloud and selecting ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework), as shown in the following New Project dialog:

Give your project a name and click the OK button to...