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

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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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Chapter 8: Git and Azure DevOps

In Chapter 7, Deploying Applications on Azure, we finished deploying the frontend and backend applications, and with that we completed the design, development, and deployment of our applications. In this chapter, we will look at using Git for version management and Azure for automating the deployment process.

In a real-life application, often several developers would work together to develop and test the application. They can work on different features of the application and can also be in different locations. This poses the challenge of how to manage the overall code base and how to share and synchronize code between developers and teams. Multiple version-management tools and techniques are available to facilitate this, such as SVN (short for Subversion), TFVC (short for Team Foundation Version Control), and Git. Our focus in this chapter will be to use Git from VS Code and create Git repositories in Azure DevOps.

The following topics will be...