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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)

Building Applications with .NET Core

.NET Core is an open source framework (hosted on GitHub https://github.com/dotnet/core), released by Microsoft and maintained by the .NET community, to build cross-platform applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. You can get it from Microsoft's official .NET Core site at https://www.microsoft.com/net/core or GitHub. If you are using Visual Studio 2017, you can get it as part of the installer.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following core topics:

  • Overview of .NET Core
  • Installing .NET Core with Visual Studio 2017
  • A quick lap around the .NET Core commands:
    • Creating a .NET Core console app
    • Creating a .NET Core class library
    • Creating a solution file and adding projects to it
    • Resolving dependencies in a .NET Core application
    • Building a .NET Core project or solution
    • Running a .NET Core application
    • Publishing a .NET Core application...