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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

Overview to NuGet package manager

A NuGet package is a .nupkg file that contains all the required components needed to reference an external library in a project. Typically, this component is one or more DLLs and the metadata describing the package. It can consist of other components, source code, and debug symbols, but this is rare.

When you install any of the Visual Studio 2017 workloads, by default it installs the support for NuGet along with the NuGet package manager tool, which you can find listed under the Individual components tab of the installer. If you uninstall it, all the dependent workloads will automatically get uninstalled from your system:

NuGet package manager comes in both console and GUI mode, integrated as part of the Visual Studio IDE. As GUI provides you with easier access to search, install, update, and uninstall a package, it is always preferable, and...

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