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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 Azure websites (Web Apps) from the portal

Once the web app gets created, navigate to App Services from the left-hand side category list as shown in the following screenshot:

Here, it will list all the app services that you have currently hosted on your Azure account. If you have a large list, you can easily search/filter it based on the available options on this screen.

The website that we just created will get listed under this screen. Click on the name of the app that you used to create it as shown in the following screenshot:

This will open another screen with detailed information about the application that you selected. Here in this screen, you can check the activity log, monitor the requests and errors, modify the access control, diagnose and solve problems, create a backup of the site, update the custom domain, and more:

At the top of the Overview screen, you...