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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

Debugging XAML application UI

Visual Studio 2017 provides a very good feature to make the XAML app development easier. You can now edit your XAML code of a WPF or UWP application, when the application is running in debug mode. You don't have to recompile your project to view the changes. You will automatically see it in the live application as and when you are modifying the markup.

Just as with F12 - Developer Tools of browser applications, you can now navigate to the Visual Tree of XAML page when the application is running in debug mode and attached with the Visual Studio 2017 debugger tool.

Overview of XAML debugging

Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer are two tool windows which will help you to perform XAML debugging more easily. You can now inspect the XAML at runtime and visualize the layout to show alignments and space for UI elements. If you have lots of data bindings, you can use Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer to change properties in runtime and see how it affects...

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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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