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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.

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Mastering Visual Studio 2017
Jul, 2017 | 466 pages
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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1
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
Summary
2
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
Summary
3
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
Layouts in WPF
WPF property system
Data binding in WPF
Using Converters while data binding
Using triggers in WPF
Summary
4
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
Summary
5
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
Summary
6
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
Summary
7
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
Summary
8
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
Summary
9
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
Summary
10
Working with Source Controls
Working with Source Controls
Working with Git repositories
Working with Team Projects
Summary

Installation of .NET Core with Visual Studio 2017

To install .NET Core along with Visual Studio 2017, run the Visual Studio installer. If you have already installed Visual Studio 2017, you can modify the existing installation to install the .NET Core workload.

When the installer starts, you will see the following screen, where you can customize the workloads that you want to install. From the list, select .NET Core cross-platform development and click on Install to continue:

This will start the installation process. Once it completes, you may have to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

Once the installation is successful, open a console window and type in the dotnet new command to populate your local .NET Core package cache, which will occur only once to improve the restore speed and enable offline access.

dotnet is the driver of .NET Core's CLI (Command...
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