You're reading from Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code Get up and running with VS Code by building multi-platform, cloud-native, and microservices-based apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838822934

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Visual Studio

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Khusro Habib

Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio Code FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Extensions in Visual Studio Code

4. Section 2: Developing Microservices-Based Applications in Visual Studio Code

5. Chapter 3: Building a Multi-Platform Backend Using Visual Studio Code

6. Chapter 4: Building a Service in .NET Core and Exploring Dapr

7. Chapter 5: Building a Web-Based Frontend Application with Angular

8. Chapter 6: Debugging Techniques

9. Chapter 7: Deploying Applications on Azure

10. Chapter 8: Git and Azure DevOps

11. Section 3: Advanced Topics on Visual Studio Code

12. Chapter 9: Creating Custom Extensions in Visual Studio Code

13. Chapter 10: Remote Development in Visual Studio Code

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Figure 10.26 – Installing the Visual Studio Codespaces extension

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Figure 10.27 – Changing the Codespaces account provider to GitHub

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