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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook
Mar, 2014 | 332 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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
1
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
2
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
3
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
4
.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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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

About the Authors

Jeff Martin is a long-time technology enthusiast and has been a contributing writer for InfoQ (www.infoq.com) for over two years, focusing on .NET and Microsoft-based platforms. Having experience in writing, testing, and designing software, he enjoys learning about new technologies and explaining them to a broader audience.

Readers are encouraged to follow @VSDevTips on Twitter to receive updates on the book as well as news for getting the most out of Visual Studio.

I would like to thank my lovely wife Carolyn for her love and understanding during my frequent late-night writing sessions. Your support for these projects means more to me than I can express.

I would also like to thank my brother Dan Martin for providing a great photo for the cover of this book.

Finally, thank you to my entire production team at Packt Publishing for their effort and assistance in producing this book.

Richard Banks has developed software for the last 20 years for a wide range of industries and development platforms. Over the years he has played many roles including that of a developer, team lead, project manager, and CIO/CTO. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, runs the Sydney ALT.NET user group and the Talking Shop Down Under podcast. He owns and contributes to a few open source projects, and has spoken at Microsoft TechEd and a number of other events and user groups around Australia. For some strange reason, he gets a real kick out of helping development teams to improve and produce great software. If you want to get in touch, he tweets at @rbanks54 and blogs at http://www.richard-banks.org/. He currently works as a Principal Consultant for Readify and is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP.

It might have my name on the front cover but a book is never the work of just one person.

I would firstly like to thank my fantastic wife, Anne, and my two wonderful children, Hannah and Leisel, for giving me the time and space to work on this book. Their support throughout the process has been invaluable, and without that I would never have undertaken this book in the first place.

I’d also like to thank the staff and Packt Publishing for the opportunity and help in bringing this together, and my tech reviewers who gave up their spare time reading my scribble and checking if what I wrote actually made sense instead of being just a delirium-fuelled pile of nonsense.

Thank you all!

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