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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

Getting started with Universal Windows Platform

In Windows Phone 7, the operating system was based on Windows CE, which was the operating system for small devices, but different from the OS that covers the big Windows.

When Microsoft launched Windows Phone 8, they swapped out the Windows CE operating system and based it on the Windows NT kernel. This was the same for PCs and Xbox One.

But with Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft delivered it on a converged developer platform with the option to build applications targeting the universal 8.1 app platform that shares a high percentage of the code.

With the launch of Windows 10, it changed again. The code has been improved further and generalized to provide a single set of APIs to create a single app which can run on all device families running the Windows 10 operating system. They named it Universal Windows Platform (UWP...

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