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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)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code
4
Section 2: Developing Microservices-Based Applications in Visual Studio Code
11
Section 3: Advanced Topics on Visual Studio Code

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "To push the complete history of changes to the remote repository, run git push –u <remote_repo_name> <branch_name>."

A block of code is set as follows:

- task: Docker@2
   displayName: Save Image
    inputs:
     command: save
     arguments: '-o $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/$(NodeJSAPIName).tar $(ContainerRegistryName)/$(NodeJSAPIName):$(Build.BuildId)'

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

image deployment/$(k8jobreqdeployment) $(k8jobreqdeployment)=$(ContainerRegistryName)/$(NodeJSAPIName):$(Build.BuildId)

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "To get the credentials, click the Generate Git Credentials button in your repository on Azure DevOps. You will find this button on the Clone Repository page."

Tips or important notes

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