Professional Visual Studio 2012
Published on 28. November 2012
1104 pages
978-1-118-41648-8 (ISBN)
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The ultimate developers' guide to Visual Studio 2012
This expert Wrox guide is what you need to get up and runningquickly on Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C#MVP, it guides you through the integrated development environment(IDE), showing you how to maximize all new tools andimprovements.
* Offers programmers a fast way to IDE-centric programmingsuccess
* Demonstrates new IDE features, including the new Metro styleapp project templates and Windows 8 app store features
* Explains each feature, then illustrates the context in which itwill help you solve problems
* Covers timely and essential topics related to rich client appdevelopment, web applications, application services, fileconfiguration, debugging and testing, and more
* Helps advanced users customize and extend Visual Studio throughthe Automation Model, writing macros, working with the ManagedExtensibility Framework (MEF), and more
* Provides ample detail for programmers who are new to VisualStudio 2012, as well as for experienced programmers exploring theadvanced capabilities of the IDE
Professional Visual Studio 2012 uses a unique,IDE-centric approach to help you get up and running quickly on thisexciting new release.
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Bruce Johnson is a principal consultant with ObjectSharpCorporation. He has been published in a wide variety of technologyperiodicals and has given more than 500 presentations at userconferences.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written byworking programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers,developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, theyaddress the issues technology professionals face every day. Theyprovide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in newtechnologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Content
INTRODUCTION xxxix
PART I: INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 1: A QUICK TOUR 3
CHAPTER 2: THE SOLUTION EXPLORER, TOOLBOX, AND PROPERTIES 13
CHAPTER 3: OPTIONS AND CUSTOMIZATIONS 31
CHAPTER 4: THE VISUAL STUDIO WORKSPACE 49
CHAPTER 5: FIND AND REPLACE AND HELP 67
PART II: GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER 6: SOLUTIONS, PROJECTS, AND ITEMS 81
CHAPTER 7: INTELLISENSE AND BOOKMARKS 109
CHAPTER 8: CODE SNIPPETS AND REFACTORING 127
CHAPTER 9: SERVER EXPLORER 147
CHAPTER 10: MODELING WITH THE CLASS DESIGNER 163
PART III: DIGGING DEEPER
CHAPTER 11: UNIT TESTING 177
CHAPTER 12: DOCUMENTATION WITH XML COMMENTS 197
CHAPTER 13: CODE CONSISTENCY TOOLS 219
CHAPTER 14: CODE GENERATION WITH T4 233
CHAPTER 15: PROJECT AND ITEM TEMPLATES 257
CHAPTER 16: LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC FEATURES 275
PART IV: RICH CLIENT APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 17: WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATIONS 291
CHAPTER 18: WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION (WPF) 305
CHAPTER 19: OFFICE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS 331
CHAPTER 20: WINDOWS STORE APPLICATIONS 347
PART V: WEB APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 21: ASP.NET WEB FORMS 361
CHAPTER 22: ASP.NET MVC 395
CHAPTER 23: SILVERLIGHT 425
CHAPTER 24: DYNAMIC DATA 439
CHAPTER 25: SHAREPOINT 461
CHAPTER 26: WINDOWS AZURE 483
PART VI: DATA
CHAPTER 27: VISUAL DATABASE TOOLS 501
CHAPTER 28: DATASETS AND DATABINDING 509
CHAPTER 29: LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERIES (LINQ) 535
CHAPTER 30: THE ADO.NET ENTITY FRAMEWORK 561
CHAPTER 31: REPORTING 583
PART VII: APPLICATION SERVICES
CHAPTER 32: WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (WCF) 619
CHAPTER 33: WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION (WF) 639
CHAPTER 34: CLIENT APPLICATION SERVICES 661
CHAPTER 35: SYNCHRONIZATION SERVICES 679
CHAPTER 36: WCF RIA SERVICES 689
PART VIII: CONFIGURATION AND RESOURCES
CHAPTER 37: CONFIGURATION FILES 703
CHAPTER 38: CONNECTION STRINGS 721
CHAPTER 39: RESOURCE FILES 731
PART IX: DEBUGGING
CHAPTER 40: USING THE DEBUGGING WINDOWS 751
CHAPTER 41: DEBUGGING WITH BREAKPOINTS 769
CHAPTER 42: DATATIPS, DEBUG PROXIES, AND VISUALIZERS 781
CHAPTER 43: DEBUGGING WEB APPLICATIONS 793
CHAPTER 44: ADVANCED DEBUGGING TECHNIQUES 811
PART X: BUILD AND DEPLOYMENT
CHAPTER 45: UPGRADING WITH VISUAL STUDIO 2012 831
CHAPTER 46: BUILD CUSTOMIZATION 837
CHAPTER 47: ASSEMBLY VERSIONING AND SIGNING 853
CHAPTER 48: OBFUSCATION, APPLICATION MONITORING, AND MANAGEMENT 861
CHAPTER 49: PACKAGING AND DEPLOYMENT 881
CHAPTER 50: WEB APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT 895
PART XI: CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING VISUAL STUDIO
CHAPTER 51: THE AUTOMATION MODEL 909
CHAPTER 52: ADD-INS 917
CHAPTER 53: MANAGED EXTENSIBILITY FRAMEWORK (MEF) 931
PART XII: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE
CHAPTER 54: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE FOR ARCHITECTS 953
CHAPTER 55: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE FOR DEVELOPERS 965
CHAPTER 56: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE FOR TESTERS 983
CHAPTER 57: TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER 997
INDEX 1021
