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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

You're reading from   Mastering Visual Studio 2017 Build windows apps using WPF and UWP, accelerate cloud development with Azure, explore NuGet, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281905
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kunal Chowdhury Kunal Chowdhury
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Preface 1. What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE? 2. What is New in C# 7.0? FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Applications for Windows Using XAML Tools 4. Building Applications for Windows 10 Using UWP Tools 5. Building Applications with .NET Core 6. Managing NuGet Packages 7. Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2017 8. Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017 9. Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure 10. Working with Source Controls

Generating visual assets using the new Manifest Designer

Every app that you build needs some basic sets of icons, logos, splash screen, and more. When you create a UWP application using the Visual Studio project template, you will find the basic set of generic images under the Assets folder. These include store logo, splash screen image, small tile icon, medium tile icon, wide tile icon, and lock screen logo:

As those are generic images, you cannot build an app with those and publish to Store. It will fail immediately during the validation process. For your app, you must update those images with your app icons; create some stunning image icons to attract the user's eye.

Visual Studio 2017 allows you to easily generate these icons/images from a single image, scaling them to use on all different types of devices that your app targets.

To get started, open the Package.appxmanifest...

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