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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)

Integrating Mobile App Service in a Windows application

Let's get started with integrating the Mobile App Service that we just created into an application. You can use any application, but here we will use a WPF application. Open your Visual Studio IDE and navigate to File | New | Project... to create a WPF project.

Creating the Model and Service Client

Once the project gets created, you need to create the Model TodoItem in the project. To do so, right-click on the project and navigate to Add | Class... and name it as TodoItem. Now copy the definition of the class from the Azure portal and replace it in the code file. Here is the code for your easy reference:

    public class TodoItem 
    { 
      public string Id {...