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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

Debugging XAML application UI

Visual Studio 2017 provides a very good feature to make the XAML app development easier. You can now edit your XAML code of a WPF or UWP application, when the application is running in debug mode. You don't have to recompile your project to view the changes. You will automatically see it in the live application as and when you are modifying the markup.

Just as with F12 - Developer Tools of browser applications, you can now navigate to the Visual Tree of XAML page when the application is running in debug mode and attached with the Visual Studio 2017 debugger tool.

Overview of XAML debugging

Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer are two tool windows which will help you to perform XAML...

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