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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)

Using the Data Tips while debugging

During code debugging, Data Tips are used to provide more information of an object/variable in the current scope of execution and work only in break mode. They use the data type information to display each value that has a type associated with it. The debugger loads the object information recursively in a hierarchical structure and displays it in the editor.

Here's an example of how the Data Tips load for an object:

To display a Data Tip, place a breakpoint in your application code and run it in debug mode. When the breakpoint hits, hover over an object/variable to display the Data Tip associated with that object/variable. It is a tree of members which you can expand to get more details associated with it. When you hover out of the object/variable, the Data Tips disappear.

The Data Tips are evaluated in the current execution context where...