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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, building, and publishing a .NET Core web app to Microsoft Azure

As we have already learned how to create a .NET Core console application, build and publish it using the framework-dependent and SCD models (both using CLI and from Visual Studio 2017), let us now begin with creating an ASP.NET Core MVC web application.

To begin with, click on the File | New | Project... menu, which will open the New Project dialog on the screen. You can also open it by pressing the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + Shift + N.

From the available .NET Core project types, click on the ASP.NET Core Web Application template. Enter the project name, solution name, and location, and click on OK to start creating the project:

This will open another dialog on the screen asking you to select the ASP.NET Core web template. Currently, there exist three templates for you to choose from:

  • Empty
  • Web API
  • Web...