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Book Description
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.
What You Will Learn
- Learn what's new in the Visual Studio 2017 IDE, C# 7.0, and how it will help developers to improve their productivity
- Learn the workloads and components of the new installation wizard and how to use the online and offline installer
- Build stunning Windows apps using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) tools
- Get familiar with .NET Core and learn how to build apps targeting this new framework
- Explore everything about NuGet packages
- Debug and test your applications using Visual Studio 2017
- Accelerate cloud development with Microsoft Azure
- Integrate Visual Studio with most popular source control repositories, such as TFS and GitHub
Table of Contents
1: What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE?
- The new installation experience
- The new features and enhancements to the Visual Studio IDE
- Summary
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 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
3: Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools
- The WPF architecture
- The XAML overview
- Building your first WPF application
- Layouts in WPF
- WPF property system
- Data binding in WPF
- Using Converters while data binding
- Using triggers in WPF
- Summary
4: Building Applications for Windows 10 Using UWP Tools
- Getting started with Universal Windows Platform
- Building your first UWP application
- Designing UWP applications
- Application designing with the XAML style
- Building your own XAML control
- Generating visual assets using the new Manifest Designer
- Preparing UWP apps to publish to Windows Store
- Summary
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 .NET Core applications using Visual Studio
- Publishing a .NET Core application using Visual Studio 2017
- Creating, building, and publishing a .NET Core web app to Microsoft Azure
- Summary
6: Managing NuGet Packages
- Overview to NuGet package manager
- Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Framework
- Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Standard
- Testing the NuGet package locally
- Publishing NuGet package to NuGet store
- Managing your NuGet packages
- Summary
7: Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017
- Overview of Visual Studio debugger tools
- Debugging C# source code using breakpoints
- Using the Data Tips while debugging
- 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
- Summary
8: Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017
- Overview of Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017
- Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Live Unit Testing
- Unit testing with Visual Studio 2017
- Navigating to failed tests
- Summary
9: Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure
- Understanding the cloud computing basics
- Creating your free Azure account
- Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Azure development
- Creating an Azure website from portal
- Managing Azure websites (Web Apps) from the portal
- Creating an Azure website from Visual Studio
- Updating an existing Azure website from Visual Studio
- Building a Mobile App Service
- Integrating Mobile App Service in a Windows application
- Scaling App Service plan
- Summary
10: Working with Source Controls
- Working with Git repositories
- Working with Team Projects
- Summary
SKU | 031037S |
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Weight | 2.4340 |
Coming Soon | No |
Days of Training | No |
Audience | Student |
Product Family | Partnerware |
Product Type | Print Courseware |
Electronic | No |
ISBN | 1787281905 |
Language | English |
Page Count | 456 |
Curriculum Library | Visual Studio |
Year | 2017 |
Manufacturer's Product Code | No |
Current Revision | 1.0 |
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Revision Notes | No Revision Information Available |
Original Publication Date | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 |