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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

You're reading from   Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook Understanding the latest features of Visual Studio can speed up and streamline your projects. And there's no better learning tool than this collection of focused recipes that gives you the fast, hands-on experience you need.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782171966
Length 332 pages
Edition Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Discovering Visual Studio 2013 2. Getting Started with Windows Store Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Web Development – ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript 4. .NET Framework 4.5.1 Development 5. Debugging Your .NET Application 6. Asynchrony in .NET 7. Unwrapping C++ Development 8. Working with Team Foundation Server 2013 9. Languages Visual Studio Medley Index

Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics


One of the hard things to do in DirectX applications is determine the cause of a visual glitch or bug on the screen. Despite the best efforts of developers to avoid bugs, there are many websites featuring screenshots taken by gamers of weird things happening in a game.

Visual Studio addresses some of the debugging issues for DirectX applications by including a new Graphics Diagnostics toolset that lets you look at pixel history to determine just how a specific pixel came to be rendered on the screen. Let's see how it works.

Getting ready

Simply start a premium version of Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 8.1 and you're ready to go.

How to do it...

For this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new DirectX App project by navigating to Visual C++ | Windows Store and leave the default name as it is.

  2. The project template includes code to display a spinning cube, so build the application to ensure it compiles.

  3. Start the diagnostics by pressing Alt + F5...

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