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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE?

What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE?

The new installation experience

The new features and enhancements to the Visual Studio IDE

What is New in C# 7.0?

What is New in C# 7.0?

Local functions or nested functions

Literal improvements in C# 7.0

The new digit separators

Getting to know about pattern matching

The ref returns and locals

New changes to tuples

Changes to the throw expression

Changes to the expression-bodied members

New changes with the out variables

Getting to know about deconstruction syntax

Uses of the generalized async return types

Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools

Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools

The WPF architecture

The XAML overview

Building your first WPF application

WPF property system

Data binding in WPF

Using Converters while data binding

Using triggers in WPF

Building Applications for Windows 10 Using UWP Tools

Building Applications for Windows 10 Using UWP Tools

Getting started with Universal Windows Platform

Building your first UWP application

Designing UWP applications

Application designing with the XAML style

Building your own XAML control

Generating visual assets using the new Manifest Designer

Preparing UWP apps to publish to Windows Store

Building Applications with .NET Core

Building Applications with .NET Core

Overview of .NET Core

Installation of .NET Core with Visual Studio 2017

A quick lap around the .NET Core commands

Creating .NET Core applications using Visual Studio

Publishing a .NET Core application using Visual Studio 2017

Creating, building, and publishing a .NET Core web app to Microsoft Azure

Managing NuGet Packages

Managing NuGet Packages

Overview to NuGet package manager

Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Framework

Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Standard

Testing the NuGet package locally

Publishing NuGet package to NuGet store

Managing your NuGet packages

Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017

Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017

Overview of Visual Studio debugger tools

Debugging C# source code using breakpoints

Using the Data Tips while debugging

Using the Immediate Window while debugging your code

Using the Visual Studio Diagnostics Tools

Using the new Run to Click feature in Visual Studio 2017

Debugging an already running process

Debugging XAML application UI

Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017

Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017

Overview of Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017

Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Live Unit Testing

Unit testing with Visual Studio 2017

Navigating to failed tests

Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure

Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure

Understanding the cloud computing basics

Creating your free Azure account

Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Azure development

Creating an Azure website from portal

Managing Azure websites (Web Apps) from the portal

Creating an Azure website from Visual Studio

Updating an existing Azure website from Visual Studio

Building a Mobile App Service

Integrating Mobile App Service in a Windows application

Scaling App Service plan

Working with Source Controls

Working with Source Controls

Working with Git repositories

Working with Team Projects

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Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers a unified programming model to build dynamic, data-driven desktop applications for Windows. It supports a broad set of features that includes application models, controls, layouts, graphics, resources, security, and more. It is a graphical subsystem for rendering rich UI (User Interfaces) and is part of the .NET Framework, which was first released along with .NET 3.0.

The WPF is a resolution-independent framework that uses vector-based rendering engine using the eXtendable Application Markup Language (XAML) to create stunning user interfaces.

The runtime libraries for it to execute are included with Windows since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. If you are using Windows XP with SP2/SP3 and Windows Server 2003, you can optionally install the necessary libraries...