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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

Using the new Run to Click feature in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 provides a new feature, named Run to Click, which makes the debugging steps easy. Whenever you are in a debugging context, you can mouse hover on any line to let the IDE show you a green icon near to the line. You can then click on that icon to instruct the debugger to execute to that line and break for the next instruction. This is similar to the menu item, Run to Cursor, but with easier steps to execute:

It is often useful to debug from one line of a code block to another by clicking just the icon, instead of placing breakpoints on each line. This option is enabled by default, but you can disable/enable it any time from Visual Studio Options | Debugging | General, as shown in the following screenshot:

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