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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)

Publishing NuGet package to NuGet store

Once you are done with your class library, have generated the NuGet package, and tested it locally, you may want to push it to the NuGet gallery for public availability so that others can find, install, and use your library from NuGet Store.

To begin publishing your NuGet package, open any browser window and navigate to https://www.nuget.org. If you don't have an account, you need to register in the portal; otherwise, you can sign in with your account credentials. The Register / Sign in link is available at the top-right corner of the website:

Once you are signed in to NuGet, click Upload Package. Under the Choose a package... label, click on the Browse... button to select the .nupkg file that you want to upload and publish to NuGet Store. Click the Upload button to continue:

Once the package has been uploaded, verify all the details...