Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Build windows apps using WPF and UWP, accelerate cloud development with Azure, explore NuGet, and more

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Kunal Chowdhury

Paid access

|Jan 2025

E-Book €34.99Institutions €134.95

Description

A guide to mastering Visual Studio 2017

Key Features

Focus on coding with the new, improved, and powerful tools of VS 2017
Master improved debugging and unit testing support capabilities
Accelerate cloud development with the built-in Azure tools

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

Who 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.