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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)

Managing your NuGet packages

You can manage all your NuGet packages from the NuGet Package Manager, which you can invoke from the Visual Studio Tools menu - NuGet Package Manager | Manage NuGet Packages for Solution....

All the installed packages will get listed under the Installed tab, whereas the packages with new updates on the server will get listed under the Updates tab.

The installed packages may have overlay icons to denote the status of the package. For example, the blue arrowhead (as shown in the following screenshot for our package library) denotes that an update is available, and the green checkmark (as shown in the following screenshot for the Newtonsoft.Json library) denotes that the library is installed:

You can configure NuGet Package Manager to allow NuGet to automatically download the missing packages of a project/solution. You can also ask it to automatically...