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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learnt about the platform to build Universal Windows applications which can target any device families running Windows 10. First, we learned about the generic design principles and then headed toward creating our first UWP application, after setting up the development environment. Then we learned about various XAML page layouts and data manipulation in a view to design a good-looking UWP application. We covered GridView, ListView, and FlipView to show data on screen.

Near to the end, we discussed how to create a style of a XAML control, assign it to a resource dictionary, and inherit a style from another base style. We then covered how to build custom controls and generate visual assets using the new Manifest Designer of Visual Studio 2017.

Finally, we have discussed how to create the app package, locally validate the package against Microsoft-specific...