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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

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Overview of this book

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

Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics

One of the hard things to do in DirectX applications is determine the cause of a visual glitch or bug on the screen. Despite the best efforts of developers to avoid bugs, there are many websites featuring screenshots taken by gamers of weird things happening in a game.

Visual Studio addresses some of the debugging issues for DirectX applications by including a new Graphics Diagnostics toolset that lets you look at pixel history to determine just how a specific pixel came to be rendered on the screen. Let's see how it works.

Getting ready

Simply start a premium version of Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 8.1 and you're ready to go.

How to do it...

For this recipe, perform the following steps:

Create a new DirectX App project by navigating to Visual C++ | Windows Store and leave the default name as it is.
The project template includes code to display a spinning cube, so build the application to ensure it compiles.
Start the diagnostics by pressing Alt + F5...

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