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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281905

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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Application Development

Author (1):

Kunal Chowdhury

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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 of .NET Core

.NET Core version 1.0 was first released in 2016 and now has support to work in Visual Studio 2015, update 3.3 or later, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio Code only. The shared SDK component can be used to build, run, and publish applications using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the command line interface:

Please note that .NET Core 2.0 is scheduled for release in Q3 of 2017 and .NET Core 2.1 is scheduled for release in Q4 of 2017 (after Microsoft releases Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).

.NET Core is a subset of the .NET Framework, and contains its core features in both runtime and libraries. The .NET Framework, which was first released in 2002, is now running version 4.6.2. Until now, it was only targeted for the Windows platform, but, as time has passed, there has been a need to target it on different platforms. Using .NET Core components...

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Authors (1)

Kunal Chowdhury

Kunal Chowdhury is an author, a passionate blogger, and a software engineer by profession. He was a Microsoft MVP from 2010 to 2018. Over the years, he has acquired profound knowledge of various Microsoft products and services, and has helped developers and consumers throughout the world. As a tech buff, Kunal has in-depth knowledge of C#, XAML, .NET, WPF, Visual Studio, Windows 10, and Azure. He has written many articles on his technical blog for developers and consumers. You can contact him on Twitter (kunal2383) and become one of his fans. He has also authored the books Mastering Visual Studio 2017 and Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, both available from Packt Publishing.

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