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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281905

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Kunal Chowdhury

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. What is New in Visual Studio 2017 IDE? FREE CHAPTER

2. What is New in C# 7.0?

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

Navigating to failed tests

Visual Studio 2017 allows you to quickly navigate to the failed tests and gain an understanding of their failings. You can click on (

) or (

) to see how many tests were being hit by the given line that you clicked:

When you hover over a failed test in the tooltip, it provides additional information with StackTrace to provide you more with more insight of the failure:

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Authors (1)

Kunal Chowdhury

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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