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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

By : Kunal Chowdhury
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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

A quick lap around the .NET Core commands

The driver of the .NET Core CLI is dotnet. You can use this along with commands and distinct options to run specific features that it supports. Each of its features is implemented as a command, which you need to specify after the dotnet in the command line.

Here is the list of .NET Core commands:

  • When you use dotnet new, it initializes new project based on the project template and language that you select. The default is C#, and, currently, C# and F# are the only programming languages supported.
  • Following is the list of project templates, their short names to pass to the command, and the language type for each template, for your reference:
  • The dotnet restore command restores the dependencies and tools of a project.
  • The dotnet clean command is used to clean the output of a project that was built earlier.
  • The dotnet build command is...