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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)

Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017

Debugging is the core part of any application development. It is a process that helps you to quickly look at the current state of your program by walking through the code line by line. Developers generally start debugging the application while writing code. Some developers start debugging even before writing the first line of code to know the logic and functionalities. It's a rare case scenario when a developer completes writing code without debugging the application.

Visual Studio provides us details about the running program as much as possible. It also helps to change some values while the application is already running. Thus, debugging inside Visual Studio IDE is becoming more popular day by day.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Overview of Visual Studio debugger tools
  • Debugging C# source code...