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Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, Khusro Habib
Book Image

Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, Khusro Habib

Overview of this book

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a powerful, lightweight code editor for modern web and cloud development. It is a source code editor that can be used with a variety of programming languages, which works on multiple platforms such as Linux, Windows, and macOS. This book provides extensive coverage of the tools, functionalities, and extensions available within the VS Code environment that will help you build multi-platform apps with ease. You’ll start with the installation of VS Code and learn about various tools and features that are essential for development. Progressing through the chapters, you'll explore the user interface while understanding tips and tricks for increasing productivity. Next, you’ll delve into VS Code extensions and discover how they can make life easier for developers. Later, the book shows you how to develop a sample application with different programming languages, tools, and runtimes to display how VS code can be used effectively for development, before helping you get to grips with source code version management and deployment on Azure with VS Code. Finally, you’ll build on your skills by focusing on remote development with VS Code. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to use Visual Studio Code as your primary tool for software development.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code
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Section 2: Developing Microservices-Based Applications in Visual Studio Code
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Section 3: Advanced Topics on Visual Studio Code

Automating build and deployment using CI/CD

Today, the IT industry as a whole is going through a major transition. IT is changing from being a support function to a strategic capability. The traditional business models are under continuous threat of disruption, and this is forcing organizations to make heavy investments in adopting new technology, as well as exploring innovative ideas. Product development is more focused on ideating, trying, deploying, and checking results compared to executing several months of planning, development, and deployment cycles. Agility is the key in winning out over competition, and this has forced IT companies to think and work on methods to remove bottlenecks that slow down the delivery of value to customers.

IT as a whole has made tremendous progress, and has been addressing these concerns. Some of them involve using cloud technology, which speeds up the delivery of infrastructure while reducing administrative overheads. Agile product-management...