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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

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By: Jeff Martin
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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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook
Credits
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Credits
About the Authors
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About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Discovering Visual Studio 2013
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Discovering Visual Studio 2013
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Introduction
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Synchronizing settings
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Touring the VS2013 IDE
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Project round-tripping
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Managing the editor windows
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Finding Visual Studio commands
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Searching and navigating
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Navigating in depth
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Getting Started with Windows Store Applications
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Getting Started with Windows Store Applications
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Introduction
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Getting a Windows Store app developer license
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Creating a Windows Store app
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Adding a Windows Store item template to your app
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Using the Windows Store app simulator
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Defining capabilities and contracts
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Analyzing your App's performance
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Packaging your Windows Store app
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Validating your Windows Store app
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Web Development – ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
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Web Development – ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
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Introduction
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Getting started with Bootstrap
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Previewing changes across multiple browsers
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Creating HTML5 web pages
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Taking advantage of the CSS editor improvements
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Understanding the JavaScript editor improvements
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Adding bundling and minification to JavaScript and CSS files
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Verifying pages with the Page Inspector tool
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.NET Framework 4.5.1 Development
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.NET Framework 4.5.1 Development
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Introduction
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Adding the Ribbon to a WPF application
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Creating a state machine in Visual Studio
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Creating a task-based WCF service
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Managing packages with NuGet
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Unit testing .NET applications
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Sharing class libraries across runtimes
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Detecting duplicate code
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Debugging Your .NET Application
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Debugging Your .NET Application
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Introduction
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Maximizing everyday debugging
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Debugging on remote machines and tablets
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Debugging code in production with IntelliTrace
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Debugging parallel code
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Visualizing concurrency
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Asynchrony in .NET
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Asynchrony in .NET
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Introduction
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Making your code asynchronous
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Understanding asynchrony and the Windows Runtime
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Using asynchrony with web applications
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Working with actors and the TPL Dataflow Library
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Unwrapping C++ Development
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Unwrapping C++ Development
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Introduction
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Using XAML with C++
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Unit testing C++ applications
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Analyzing your C++ code
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Using a custom rule set
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Working with DirectX in Visual Studio 2013
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Creating a shader using DGSL
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Creating and displaying a 3D model
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Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics
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Working with Team Foundation Server 2013
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Working with Team Foundation Server 2013
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Introduction
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Creating a new TFS project
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Managing your work
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Using local workspaces for source control
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Performing code reviews
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Getting feedback from your users
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Using Git for source control
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Languages
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Languages
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Introduction
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Fortifying JavaScript applications with TypeScript
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Integrating Python into Visual Studio
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Integrating Python with .NET
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Visual Studio Medley
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Visual Studio Medley
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Introduction
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Creating installer packages
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Submitting apps to the Windows Store
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Creating Visual Studio add-ins and extensions
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Creating your own snippets
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Index
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Index

Creating installer packages

The release of Visual Studio 2012 marked the removal of the popular Visual Studio Installer project type. Just like 2012, Visual Studio 2013 offers a version of the third-party InstallShield. In this case: InstallShield Limited Edition.

The need for an installer depends on the type of application you are working on. If you are creating a Windows Store app, then you don't need an installer, as the new deployment model makes installers obsolete. If you are creating a web application, then Microsoft would suggest you to either use the XCopy or the MSDeploy web deployment technology. When it comes to traditional desktop applications, you may want to use InstallShield. You can always fall back to using the WiX (Windows Installer XML) toolset (http://wixtoolset.org/) for creating projects.

In this recipe, we will use InstallShield to create an installer package for a simple application.

Getting ready

The recipe assumes you haven't yet installed InstallShield Limited Edition...

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