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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Mastering Visual Studio 2017

By : Kunal Chowdhury
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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Mastering Visual Studio 2017

2.9 (7)
By: Kunal Chowdhury

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.
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Using Converters while data binding

In data binding, when the source object type and the target object type differs, value converters are used to manipulate data between the source and the target. This is done by writing a Converter class, implementing the IValueConverter interface. It consists of two methods:

  • Convert(...): This gets called when the source updates the target object.
  • ConvertBack(...): This gets called when the target object updates the source object:

Implementation of the value converter is simple. First create a class in your project. We named it BoolToColorConverter and implemented it from IValueConverter. Implement the two methods as part of the interface.

For demonstration purpose, the class will accept a Boolean value as input and convert it to a SolidColorBrush object. This needs to be done in the Convert method. You can also add the revert conversion...

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