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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)

Debugging an already running process

It is often necessary to debug an already running process. It could be a service, an existing process, or a website running on a local or remote system. Visual Studio provides us with an option to debug a running process. When you are debugging a remote process, you will need the Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor service running.

To get started, you will need to open the exact code that was used to build the process. If there is a change in the code, the debugging information will not be loaded. Once you open the solution, go to the Debug | Attach to Process... menu, which will open a dialog window, Attach to Process, on the screen. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl + Alt + P to invoke the window:

From the Connection Type dropdown, select the type of the connection that you want to attach. To attach a local process, keep the...