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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin

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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

4.2 (13)

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

This book is a practical guide to using Visual Studio 2013 that will help you become familiar with the improvements made over previous versions. Each recipe provides a hands-on approach to the new features with step-by-step instructions on how to increase your productivity. If you are a developer excited about the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2013, then no matter what your programming language of choice is, Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook is for you. You should have a good knowledge of working with previous versions of Visual Studio to enjoy the recipes in this book. This book provides practical examples to help you use Visual Studio 2013 more effectively.

Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

Credits

Credits

About the Authors

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Preface

Free Chapter

Discovering Visual Studio 2013

Discovering Visual Studio 2013

Introduction

Synchronizing settings

Touring the VS2013 IDE

Project round-tripping

Managing the editor windows

Finding Visual Studio commands

Searching and navigating

Navigating in depth

Getting Started with Windows Store Applications

Getting Started with Windows Store Applications

Introduction

Getting a Windows Store app developer license

Creating a Windows Store app

Adding a Windows Store item template to your app

Using the Windows Store app simulator

Defining capabilities and contracts

Analyzing your App's performance

Packaging your Windows Store app

Validating your Windows Store app

Web Development – ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

Web Development – ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

Introduction

Getting started with Bootstrap

Previewing changes across multiple browsers

Creating HTML5 web pages

Taking advantage of the CSS editor improvements

Understanding the JavaScript editor improvements

Adding bundling and minification to JavaScript and CSS files

Verifying pages with the Page Inspector tool

.NET Framework 4.5.1 Development

.NET Framework 4.5.1 Development

Introduction

Adding the Ribbon to a WPF application

Creating a state machine in Visual Studio

Creating a task-based WCF service

Managing packages with NuGet

Unit testing .NET applications

Sharing class libraries across runtimes

Detecting duplicate code

Debugging Your .NET Application

Debugging Your .NET Application

Introduction

Maximizing everyday debugging

Debugging on remote machines and tablets

Debugging code in production with IntelliTrace

Debugging parallel code

Visualizing concurrency

Asynchrony in .NET

Asynchrony in .NET

Introduction

Making your code asynchronous

Understanding asynchrony and the Windows Runtime

Using asynchrony with web applications

Working with actors and the TPL Dataflow Library

Unwrapping C++ Development

Unwrapping C++ Development

Introduction

Using XAML with C++

Unit testing C++ applications

Analyzing your C++ code

Using a custom rule set

Working with DirectX in Visual Studio 2013

Creating a shader using DGSL

Creating and displaying a 3D model

Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics

Working with Team Foundation Server 2013

Working with Team Foundation Server 2013

Introduction

Creating a new TFS project

Managing your work

Using local workspaces for source control

Performing code reviews

Getting feedback from your users

Using Git for source control

Languages

Languages

Introduction

Fortifying JavaScript applications with TypeScript

Integrating Python into Visual Studio

Integrating Python with .NET

Visual Studio Medley

Visual Studio Medley

Introduction

Creating installer packages

Submitting apps to the Windows Store

Creating Visual Studio add-ins and extensions

Creating your own snippets

Index

Index

Packaging your Windows Store app

For Windows 8 to correctly load and run a Windows Store app, it must be packaged in a particular format. The information contained in the package includes the capabilities and contracts that your app uses as well as information on the app user tile, the splash screen, and more.

This recipe will show you what you need to do to package your Windows Store app so that it is ready for the world to use.

Getting ready

Open the SplitApp project that you created in the Using the Windows Store app simulator recipe.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps for packaging your Windows Store app:

Open the Package.appxmanifest file from Solution Explorer.
Examine the fields in the Application UI tab. Add a space to the Display Name field so that it reads as Split App instead of SplitApp.
Add a useful description in the Description field. For example, A sample app using the Split layout.
Moving to the Visual Assets tab, under the Tile section, confirm the Show name field is...

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