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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)

Building a Mobile App Service

Azure Mobile Apps is another type of Azure App Service run as PaaS, which runs on any platform or device, offering high scalability and global availability for enterprise-ready mobile application development platforms. Using this, you can bring a rich set of capabilities in your mobile applications.

Using the Azure Mobile Apps service, you can build native and cross-platform apps targeting Windows, iOS, and Android. You can also connect to your enterprise system or social networking sites in minutes, build offline-ready applications with data synchronization, and leverage the push notification services to engage your customers:

Creating Azure Mobile App

To get started, you need to create the...