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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)

Application designing with the XAML style

A style is a collection of property settings applied to one or more instances of a control to provide a better look across the application. It is possible to customize your UWP application experience by styling the XAML controls but to apply the style, the target object must be a DependencyObject and the target property must be a DependencyProperty.

You can set styles for individual controls, page-level controls, application-level controls, or shared between multiple applications running across devices.

You need to define the style under the Resources property. When you define the style inline to a control, it will be available only within the context of the control. When you move that style to its parent layout, it will be available within the context of the panel, for that type of control that you defined. Similarly, if you move the...