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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the new Live Unit Testing feature of Visual Studio 2017. Here we discussed the supported unit testing framework and adapters to run Live Unit Testing inside the IDE. We also discussed the coverage information shown in the editor and the integration in Test Explorer.

Then we learned how to configure Visual Studio for Live Unit Testing. There we discussed how to install the component by running the installer, and how to use the general settings. We also discussed how to start/stop/pause the Live Unit Testing and how to include any specific test methods/projects to show the real-time unit testing status and code coverage.

Later in this chapter, we demonstrated how to create a unit testing project, configure the unit testing framework, and use it in real time with a simple example. At the end, we discussed the ways to navigate to failed tests...