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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)

Summary

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned many things that have been newly added/modified in Visual Studio 2017. You learned about the workloads and the individual components part of the new installation experience. You also learned how to create an offline layout of the installer and the step-by-step instructions to install Visual Studio 2017 on your system.

Apart from those, we also covered the new and improved changes in Visual Studio 2017 IDE that will improve the productivity of developers. Whether you want to create a new project, open an existing one, or work with code, find the references of any symbol, or debug, you will find it useful and easy to use everywhere. Also, the convenient way to open a folder, load the solution in a lightweight manner, or acquire additional components using the In-Product Acquisition is second to none.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the new features introduced in C# 7.0 that have been introduced with Visual Studio 2017 for developers to build rapid and robust applications without spending too much time on code.