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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)

Understanding the cloud computing basics

Cloud computing is a very broad concept. When you or your business need to consider cloud services for your infrastructure or application deployment, you should understand the basics of it. Generally, there are three types of cloud computing models:

  • Infrastructure as a Service
  • Platform as a Service
  • Software as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service creates the main building blocks, Platform as a Service comes on top of it, giving you another platform to use Software as a Service. Software as a Service stays at the highest block of the cloud computing system. Let's discuss all these basic service blocks in detail with the following diagram:

Infrastructure as a Service

In the...