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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)

Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017

In computer programming, Unit Testing is a software development and testing process by which the smallest testable parts of source code, called units, are tested to determine whether they are performing as per the design. Unit testing is generally part of an automation process, but you can run it manually too.

Visual Studio 2017 has a new productivity feature called Live Unit Testing, which is currently available in the Enterprise edition and only for C#/VB.NET projects that target the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Keeping a baseline on an understanding of the basics of the Unit Testing process, in this chapter, we are going to discuss only the new feature Live Unit Testing and will cover the following points:

  • Overview of Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017
    • Unit testing framework support
    • Understanding the coverage information shown in...