Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Name: Mastering Visual Studio 2017 | A Guide to Mastering Visual Studio 2017
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A Guide to Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Kunal Chowdhury(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 27. Juli 2017

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A guide to mastering Visual Studio 2017About This BookFocus on coding with the new, improved, and powerful tools of VS 2017Master improved debugging and unit testing support capabilitiesAccelerate cloud development with the built-in Azure toolsWho This Book Is For.NET Developers who would like to master the new features of VS 2017, and would like to delve into newer areas such as cloud computing, would benefit from this book. Basic knowledge of previous versions of Visual Studio is assumed.What You Will LearnLearn what's new in the Visual Studio 2017 IDE, C# 7.0, and how it will help developers to improve their productivityLearn the workloads and components of the new installation wizard and how to use the online and offline installerBuild stunning Windows apps using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) toolsGet familiar with .NET Core and learn how to build apps targeting this new frameworkExplore everything about NuGet packagesDebug and test your applications using Visual Studio 2017Accelerate cloud development with Microsoft AzureIntegrate Visual Studio with most popular source control repositories, such as TFS and GitHubIn DetailVisual 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.Style and approachThis comprehensive guide covers the advanced features of Visual Studio 2017, and communicates them through a practical approach to explore the underlying concepts of how, when, and why to use it.

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Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE?
The new installation experience
Overview of the new installation experience
Installation using the online installer
Creating an offline installer of Visual Studio 2017
Installing Visual Studio 2017 from the command line
Modifying your existing Visual Studio 2017 installation
Uninstalling Visual Studio 2017 installation
Signing in to Visual Studio 2017
The new features and enhancements to the Visual Studio IDE
Overview to the redesigned start page
The improved code navigation tool
Changes to Find All References of an instance
Structural guide lines
Editor config
The Roaming Extension Manager feature
Open folders in a convenient way
Lightweight solution loading
Connected Services
Acquiring tools and features by using In-Product Acquisition
The Run to Click feature
Improved Attach to Process with process filtering
The new exception helper
Add conditions to Exception Settings
Updates to Diagnostic Tools
Summary
Chapter 2: What is New in C# 7.0?
Local functions or nested functions
Literal improvements in C# 7.0
The new digit separators
Getting to know about pattern matching
The Is expression with pattern matching
Switch statements with pattern matching
The ref returns and locals
New changes to tuples
Changes to the throw expression
Changes to the expression-bodied members
New changes with the out variables
Getting to know about deconstruction syntax
Uses of the generalized async return types
Summary
Chapter 3: Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools
The WPF architecture
Presentation Framework
Presentation Core
Common Language Runtime
Media Integration Library
OS Core
Types of WPF applications
The XAML overview
Object element syntax
Property attribute syntax
Property element syntax
Content syntax
Collection syntax
Event attribute syntax
Understanding the XAML namespaces
Working with inline code in XAML pages
The code behind file of an XAML page
Building your first WPF application
Getting started with WPF project
Understanding the WPF project structure
Getting familiar with XAML Designer
Adding controls in XAML
Command-line parameters in WPF application
Layouts in WPF
Using Grid as a WPF panel
Using StackPanel to define stacked layout
Using Canvas as a panel
Using WPF DockPanel to dock child elements
Using the WrapPanel to automatically reposition
Using UniformGrid to place elements in uniform cells
WPF property system
Data binding in WPF
Using Converters while data binding
Using triggers in WPF
Property trigger
Multi trigger
Data trigger
Multidata trigger
Event trigger
Summary
Chapter 4: Building Applications for Windows 10 Using UWP Tools
Getting started with Universal Windows Platform
Generic design principles of UWP apps
Effective scaling
Effective pixels
Universal controls
Universal styles
Repositioning of controls
Resizing the UI
Reflowing of UI elements
Replacing the UI Elements
Revealing the UI elements
Getting started with UWP app development
Building your first UWP application
Setting up the development environment for first use
Setting up the developer mode
Creating, building, and running the application
Designing UWP applications
Defining XAML page layouts
The relative panels
The VariableSizedWrapGrid class
Data manipulation in a view
The GridView control
The ListView control
The FlipView control
Application designing with the XAML style
Defining a style as a resource
Inheriting a style from another style
Building your own XAML control
Creating the custom control
Exposing properties from a custom control
Generating visual assets using the new Manifest Designer
Preparing UWP apps to publish to Windows Store
Summary
Chapter 5: Building Applications with .NET Core
Overview of .NET Core
Installation of .NET Core with Visual Studio 2017
A quick lap around the .NET Core commands
Creating a .NET Core console app
Creating a .NET Core class library
Creating a solution file and adding projects in it
Resolving dependencies in the .NET Core application
Building a .NET Core project or solution
Running a .NET Core application
Publishing a .NET Core application
Framework-Dependent Deployments
Self-Contained Deployments
Creating an ASP.NET Core application
Creating a unit testing project
Creating .NET Core applications using Visual Studio
Publishing a .NET Core application using Visual Studio 2017
Framework-Dependent Deployments
Self-Contained Deployments
Creating, building, and publishing a .NET Core web app to Microsoft Azure
Summary
Chapter 6: Managing NuGet Packages
Overview to NuGet package manager
Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Framework
Creating the metadata in NuGet spec file
Building the NuGet Package
Building NuGet Package for multiple .NET Frameworks
Building NuGet package with dependencies
Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Standard
Editing the metadata of the project
Building the NuGet Package from Visual Studio 2017
Building a NuGet Package with package references
Testing the NuGet package locally
Publishing NuGet package to NuGet store
Managing your NuGet packages
Summary
Chapter 7: Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017
Overview of Visual Studio debugger tools
Debugging C# source code using breakpoints
Organizing breakpoints in code
Debugger execution steps
Adding conditions to breakpoints
Using conditional expressions
Using breakpoint hit counters
Using breakpoint filters
Adding actions to breakpoints
Adding labels to breakpoints
Managing breakpoints using the Breakpoints window
Exporting/importing breakpoints
Using the Data Tips while debugging
Pinning/unpinning Data Tips for better debugging
Inspecting Data Tips in various watch windows
The Autos window
The Locals window
The Watch window
Using visualizers to display complex Data Tips
Importing/exporting Data Tips
Using debugger to display debugging information
Using the Immediate Window while debugging your code
Using the Visual Studio Diagnostics Tools
Using the new Run to Click feature in Visual Studio 2017
Debugging an already running process
Debugging XAML application UI
Overview of XAML debugging
Inspecting XAML properties on Live Visual Tree
Enabling UI debugging tools for XAML
Summary
Chapter 8: Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017
Overview of Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017
Unit testing framework support
Understanding the coverage information shown in editor
Integration of Live Unit Testing in Test Explorer
Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Live Unit Testing
Installing Live Unit Testing component
General settings of Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio
Starting/pausing the Live Unit Testing
Including and excluding test methods/projects
Unit testing with Visual Studio 2017
Getting started with configuring the testing project
Understanding the package config
Live Unit Testing with an example
Navigating to failed tests
Summary
Chapter 9: Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure
Understanding the cloud computing basics
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Creating your free Azure account
Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Azure development
Creating an Azure website from portal
Creating a web application
Creating an App Service plan
Managing Azure websites (Web Apps) from the portal
Creating an Azure website from Visual Studio
Creating an ASP.NET Web Application
Publishing the web application to cloud
Updating an existing Azure website from Visual Studio
Building a Mobile App Service
Creating Azure Mobile App
Preparing Azure Mobile App for data connectivity
Adding SQL data connection
Creating a SQL Database
Integrating Mobile App Service in a Windows application
Creating the Model and Service Client
Integrating the API call
Scaling App Service plan
Summary
Chapter 10: Working with Source Controls
Working with Git repositories
Installing Git for Visual Studio 2017
Connecting to the source control servers
Getting started with Git repositories
Creating a new repository
Cloning an existing repository
Reviewing the Git configuration settings
Working with Git branches
Creating a new local branch
Switching to a different branch
Pushing a local branch to remote
Deleting an existing branch
Working with changes, staging, and commits
Staging changes to local repository
Committing changes to the local repository
Discarding uncommitted changes
Amending message to an existing commit
Syncing changes between local and remote repositories
Pushing changes to the remote repository
Fetching changes available in the remote repository
Merging changes available in the remote repository to the local repository
Resolving merge conflicts
Working with Pull Requests for code review
Creating Pull Requests for code review
Reviewing an existing Pull Request
Merging a Pull Request
Working with Git commit history
Rebasing changes to rewrite the commit history
Copying commits using Cherry-Pick
Undoing your changes
Resetting a local branch to a previous state
Reverting changes from remote branch
Tagging your commits
Working with Team Projects
Connecting to a Team Project
Cloning an existing project folder
Performing check-out operation to a file
Committing your changes to the repository
Undoing your local changes
Creating code review request
Rolling back your existing change set
Summary
Index

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