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Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code
Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code

Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code: Get up and running with VS Code by building multi-platform, cloud-native, and microservices-based apps

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Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code or, as it is mostly called, VS Code, is one of the most popular coding tools today. It focuses on being fast and extendible, and can build up to the needs of a wider developer community.

Earlier, the focus was on providing developers with an extensive development environment that could integrate the complete software development life cycle, from writing code to deploying the solution. To increase productivity, several in-built features were provided to automate repetitive tasks. Most of the environments supported a particular language and an abundance of prebuilt features for that language.

As the industry moved from thick installable clients to web-based applications, the choice of development platforms and tools also changed. These browser-based web applications that were developed using HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript did not require heavy integrated development...

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  • Leverage the power of the free, cross-platform, and highly customizable code editor to build modern web and cloud applications
  • Edit, debug and deploy on Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio Code
  • Learn how to customize features and install a wide variety of third-party extensions

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a powerful, lightweight code editor for modern web and cloud development. It is a source code editor that can be used with a variety of programming languages, which works on multiple platforms such as Linux, Windows, and macOS. This book provides extensive coverage of the tools, functionalities, and extensions available within the VS Code environment that will help you build multi-platform apps with ease. You’ll start with the installation of VS Code and learn about various tools and features that are essential for development. Progressing through the chapters, you'll explore the user interface while understanding tips and tricks for increasing productivity. Next, you’ll delve into VS Code extensions and discover how they can make life easier for developers. Later, the book shows you how to develop a sample application with different programming languages, tools, and runtimes to display how VS code can be used effectively for development, before helping you get to grips with source code version management and deployment on Azure with VS Code. Finally, you’ll build on your skills by focusing on remote development with VS Code. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to use Visual Studio Code as your primary tool for software development.

Who is this book for?

This book is for software developers, web developers and polyglot programmers, who are working with any language or framework such as Python, Java, Node.js, or .NET and are looking to learn how they can create multi-platform, microservices based, cloud-native applications while effectively using Visual Studio Code for editing, debugging, version management and deployment. Basic software development skills are a must to grasp the concepts covered in this book.

What you will learn

  • Explore various editing, formatting, and navigational features of VS Code
  • Understand how to add, delete, and configure extensions in VS Code
  • Develop web APIs using Node.js, Java, and Python in VS Code
  • Develop background service in .NET Core and explore Dapr
  • Delve into debugging techniques such as breakpoints, log points, and data inspection
  • Use Git with Azure DevOps to share and synchronize code with VS Code
  • Create custom extensions in VS Code to increase developer productivity
  • Understand the concepts of remote development using VS Code
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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Extensions in Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Developing Microservices-Based Applications in Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Building a Multi-Platform Backend Using Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Building a Service in .NET Core and Exploring Dapr Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Building a Web-Based Frontend Application with Angular Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Debugging Techniques Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Deploying Applications on Azure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Git and Azure DevOps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Advanced Topics on Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Creating Custom Extensions in Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Remote Development in Visual Studio Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Visual studio code is the most used open source IDE by for developing & configuring multi\cross platform apps. I do advice anyone to discover the incredibly power of visual studio code available the below book. Personally, I'm using visual studio code from years but I was not aware of many nice features available there. It doesn't matter which language you are writing or which framework you are using as all of this is available with details on the below book.
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Great book. covered most of the major points.
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Sujanesh Jasti Nov 10, 2020
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As a developer myself, taking a look at this book reinforced the ideas and methods I have learned over the many years I have been working.The book starts off with an introduction to VS Code. If you haven't had a hands-on experience with the platform then this is a great place to start. Pact offers samples that you are able to use and play around with. This is a great way to experience coding hands-on. This makes it a great book to start off with and can be great for anyone.It has been really useful to understand the backend works of the platform and also understanding how we can make multi-platform apps with VS Code. The book gives a high-level idea of building these kinds of applications and the reader is guided with the best way to develop many complex apps.This is a great book for beginners and advanced developers to refresh the ideas for building multiple types of applications using VS Code.It is a great resource and has helped me so much when I couldn't find an answer to something online right away, and knowing that this book is with me all the time, I knew exactly what I needed to know to develop a service with .NET and get the environment started.I recommend this book to people who want to get started right away but don't know where to begin. This is a great way to get your hands-on experience while also learning the mechanics of what goes on in a full-fledged application.
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I was looking for a such a book to understand Visual Studio Code.The Multi-cursor editing amongst other basic editing tools is a great help especially when having to select multiple occurrences of the same text and edit at the same time. The instructions are fully detailed with plenty of screenshots to help drive the points across. The shortcuts shown in the book are great to navigate Visual Studio Code and provide great time savers. The code snippets are also very helpful at limiting the amount of time taken to write the code. The themes and extensions are great I especially liked the way the author teaches you how to create a new extensions.json file with your recommended extensions. Learning how to install extensions from the CLI is of course very valuable information. I am already a certified Azure Administrator however still not being able to land a job in that field. Section 2 was a great refresher course in Azure and have a better understanding of Azure Devops and Angular frameworks now. Debugging practices and examples are on point. I was unable to completely grasp the concept of using containers however now I understand and know how Docker and Kubernetes work. I greatly applaud the author of this book and have faith that with the knowledge attained by reading and following the examples on Developing Multiplatform Apps with Visual Studio Code, that I am now ready to pass any future job interviews and have faith that I will be be able to attain a job as a Cloud Administrator.
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This book is good if you code in multiple languages and want to become familiar with visual studio code and it's offerings!I have enjoyed reading all the chapters! My favorite is where the author deep dives into how to debug code like node.js with vscode!Also it has a chapter around how to build your own visualstudio extensions that is useful!
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