Visual Studio 2019 In Depth
Visual Studio 2019 In Depth

Author: Du Preez Ockert J.

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2019-09-20

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9389328330

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Step-by-step guide to all the tools and extensions in the Visual Studio 2019 IDEKey featuresa- Create and use custom IDE extensionsa- Find, download, and use the best IDE extensions for web, mobile, Azure, and Windowsa- Enhance programming experience and time with debugging toolsa- Enhance coding capabilities with coding toolsa- Test projects proactivelya- Create powerful web, mobile, and Azure solutions for the real worldDescriptionThis book peeks into every corner of the Visual Studio IDE and will help you get started with the latest 2019 version. Right from installation, you'll discover new features within the tool and the optimal way to use the features you may already know. You'll learn, for example, how to extend Visual Studio with your own customizations, so that you can make it perform the way you want. You will then explore everything about NuGet package, test applications using Live Unit Testing, and learn how to make code templates using the T4 code generation tool. You'll get to grips with the richer JavaScript IntelliSense, which will help you focus more on coding. Moving on, you'll learn to work with the dedicated workloads for data storage and data science. You will also review the more advanced architecture tools concealed within the IDE and finally create cloud-first applications powered by Microsoft Azure using the built-in suite of Azure tools.What will you learnBy the end of the book, you will be able to tackle any solution for any platform head-on. You will create real-world solutions from start to finish. By using the tools and extensions outlined in this book, you will be able to code better and faster, debug better, share your code with more peers, test your code better, and install or publish your apps quicker and without issues.Who this book is forThe book is intended for any .NET developer. You can be a seasoned developer or a newbie just starting out. This book will play a pivotal role in presenting all the tools you need to become a better developer.Table of contents1. Getting started with Visual Studio2. Digging in the Visual Studio IDE3. IntelliSense4. Language & coding changes in C#5. What's new in .Net core6. Built-in tools7. Debugging tools8. Testing tools9. ASP.NET tools10. Mobile tools11. Azure tools12. IDE extensions13. ASP.NET extensions14. Mobile extensions15. Azure DevOps extensionsAbout the authorOckert du Preez is a self-taught developer who started learning programming since the days of QBasic. He has written several articles over the years detailing his programming quests and adventures. .NET is his second love, just after his wife and kid. He has always been an avid supporter of .NET since the beginning, and is an expert in VB and C#.He was given the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for .NET (2008-2017). He has worked as a moderator and an article reviewer and currently writes articles for CodeGuru, Developer.com, DevX, and the Database journal.His blog: https://www.codeguru.com/member.php/Hannes+DuPreez/

Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques
Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

Author: Paul Schroeder

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1800200145

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Harness the full power of the Visual Studio IDE to take your coding skills to the next level by learning about IDE productivity practices and exclusive techniques Key FeaturesIncrease your productivity by leveraging Visual Studio 2019's improvements and featuresExplore powerful editing, code intelligence, and source code control features to increase productivityDelve into VS’s powerful, untapped features such as custom project templates and extensionsBook Description Visual Studio 2019 (VS 2019) and Visual Studio Code (VS Code) are powerful professional development tools that help you to develop applications for any platform with ease. Whether you want to create web, mobile, or desktop applications, Microsoft Visual Studio is your one-stop solution. This book demonstrates some of the most sophisticated capabilities of the tooling and shows you how to use the integrated development environment (IDE) more efficiently to be more productive. You’ll begin by gradually building on concepts, starting with the basics. The introductory chapters cover shortcuts, snippets, and numerous optimization tricks, along with debugging techniques, source control integration, and other important IDE features that will help you make your time more productive. With that groundwork in place, more advanced concepts such as the inner workings of project and item templates are covered. You will also learn how to write quality, secure code more efficiently as well as discover how certain Visual Studio features work 'under the hood'. By the end of this Visual Studio book, you’ll have learned how to write more secure code faster than ever using your knowledge of the extensions and processes that make developing successful solutions more enjoyable and repeatable. What you will learnUnderstand the similarities and differences between VS 2019 and VS CodeGet to grips with numerous keyboard shortcuts to improve efficiencyDiscover IDE tips and tricks that make it easier to write codeExperiment with code snippets that make it easier to write repeating code patternsFind out how to customize project and item templates with the help of hands-on exercisesUse Visual Studio extensions for ease and improved productivityDelve into Visual Studio’s behind the scene operationsWho this book is for This book is for C# and .NET developers who want to become more efficient and take advantage of features they may not be aware of in the IDE. Those looking to increase their productivity and write quality code more quickly by fully utilizing the power of the Visual Studio IDE will also find this book useful.

Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019
Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019

Author: Dirk Strauss

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 148425449X

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Know how to use the features of Visual Studio 2019 and utilize the IDE correctly to become your one-stop solution for creating quality code. Learn what's new in VS 2019 and explore the existing features of Visual Studio so you can use them more efficiently. Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019 begins with an overview of Visual Studio and explores new features such as Visual Studio Live Share, Visual Studio Search, Solution Filters, and Intellicode. Author Dirk Strauss teaches you how to create project templates, write code snippets, and manage NuGet packages. You will learn how to: debug your code using breakpoints and step into specific methods, use data tips, and utilize the DebuggerDisplay attribute. You will then move on to learn unit testing and explore the tools provided by Visual Studio to create and run unit tests. The book also covers source control integration in Visual Studio and how to use GitHub to implement a source control strategy in your code. What You Will LearnCreate and use code snippets in Visual Studio 2019Utilize diagnostic tools and the Immediate window for code debuggingGenerate unit tests with IntelliTestUse NuGet in applicationsCreate and handle pull requests Who This Book Is For Beginners and software developers working on the .NET stack

Essential Visual Studio 2019
Essential Visual Studio 2019

Author: Bruce Johnson

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2020-06-12

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1484257197

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Discover how Visual Studio 2019 can improve your development process. Visual Studio is an integral part of the daily life of millions of developers worldwide. Even as this rich integrated development environment approaches two decades, it has never ceased in innovating ways to make developers’ work life more productive. Essential Visual Studio 2019 offers explicit guidance for the developer who is already familiar with Visual Studio, but might feel a little lost when it comes to understanding the more recent features and advances of the IDE. Busy developers simply don’t have the time to digest and distill what the latest and greatest tools are with each version. As a result, useful process and performance features may be overlooked. This book, by simply focusing on the most recent innovations in Visual Studio and its tangential developer market, is the perfect "go to" for bridging that gap. Be ready to plunge headfirst into key features and advances that have been added, expanded, or improved, and topics such as unit testing, refactoring, Git, debugging, containers, and more. You will procure the basic concepts and value first, before diving into hands-on code that is designed to quickly get you up and running. The goal of this book is to bring the developer up to speed on Visual Studio 2019. It does not focus just on functionality added in Visual Studio 2019, but takes a deep dive into the areas where Visual Studio 2019 changed. That way, even if you’re coming from much earlier versions of Visual Studio, you can easily discern how upgrading to Visual Studio 2019 can make you more productive. What You Will Learn Know how the new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2019 can make you more productiveUnderstand the value of modifications and when they can be used to take full advantage of this powerful IDEReview changes to Visual Studio over the last two versions and see where the development process is headingDiscover the cloud-based, containerized, dev-ops-aware, and platform-flexible aspects of Visual StudioGain clarity on the areas that have the greatest impact to you personally Who This Book Is For Developers who use Visual Studio on a daily basis. Familiarity with earlier versions is helpful, as the book is not a soup-to-nuts survey of the IDE and some basic functions will not be covered.

Visual Studio Extensibility Development
Visual Studio Extensibility Development

Author: Rishabh Verma

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2020-07-03

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1484258533

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Learn the extensibility model of Visual Studio to enhance the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). This book will cover every aspect, starting from developing an extension to publishing it and making it available to the end user. The book begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of Visual Studio including data structures and design patterns and moves forward with the fundamentals of the VS extensibility model. Here you will learn how to work on Roslyn - the .NET compiler platform - and load extensions in VS. Next, you will go through the extensibility model and see how various extensions, such as menus, commands, and tool windows, can be plugged into VS. Moving forward, you’ll cover developing VS extensions and configuring them, along with demonstrations on customizing extension by developing option pages. Further, you will learn to create custom code snippets and use a debugger visualizer. Next, you will go through creation of project and item templates including deployment of VS extensions using continuous integration (CI). Finally, you will learn tips and tricks for Visual Studio and its extensibility and integration with Azure DevOps. After reading Visual Studio Extensibility Development you will be able to develop, deploy, and customize extensions in Visual Studio IDE. What You Will Learn Discover the Visual Studio extensibility and automation model Code Visual Studio extensions from scratchCustomize extensions by developing a tools option page for themCreate project templates, item templates, and code snippets. Work with code generation using T4 templatesCode analysis and refactoring using Roslyn analyzersCreate and deploy a private extension gallery and upload the extensions Upload a VS extension using CIShip your extension to Visual Studio MarketplaceWho This Book Is For Developers in Visual Studio IDE covering C#, Visual Basic (VB), JavaScript, and CSS.

Illustrated C# 7
Illustrated C# 7

Author: Daniel Solis

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 1484232887

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Get to work quickly with C# with a uniquely succinct and visual format used to present the C# 7.0 language. Whether you’re getting to grips with C# for the first time or working to deepen your understanding, you’ll find this book to be a clear and refreshing take on each aspect of the language. Figures are of prime importance in this book. While teaching programming seminars, Daniel Solis found that he could almost watch the light bulbs going on over the students’ heads as he drew the figures on the whiteboard. In this text, he has distilled each important concept into simple but accurate illustrations. For this latest edition, Dan is joined by fellow experienced teacher and programmer, Cal Schrotenboer, to bring you the very latest C# language features, along with an understanding of the frameworks it most often lives in: .NET and the new .NET Core. For something as intricate and precise as a programming language, there must be text as well as figures. But rather than long, wordy explanations, the authors use short, concise descriptions and bullet lists to make each important piece of information visually distinct and memorable. What You’ll Learn Start with an overview of C# programming and how the language works under the hood Put things in context with a little useful history of C# and .NET Know how .NET Core fits into the picture Understand how C# handles types Benefit from clear, concise explanations of each language feature, from classes and inheritance to enumerators and iterators, and the new C# 7.0 tuples Quickly access material via this book's visual introduction to asynchronous programming with C# Who This Book Is For Novice to intermediate C# programmers, and more experienced programmers moving to C# from other languages

Mastering C# 8.0
Mastering C# 8.0

Author: Joydip Kanjilal

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2019-10-14

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9388511603

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Step-by-step guide written in a lucid language for mastering C# DESCRIPTIONÊ This book starts by introducing the concepts of .NET framework. It then discusses OOP and explores how one can work with OOP in C#. There are two chapters on OOP: the first one covers the basics of object-oriented programming (OOP); and the second one delineates advanced concepts related to OOP and how they can be implemented in C#. Next, the book discusses Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and how to work with it in C#, followed by multithreading, asynchronous and parallel programming concepts with relevant code examples to illustrate the concepts covered. Generics, collections, generic collections, delegates, lambda expressions are also covered in this section. In the last section of the book, serialization, file I/O and how to work with them in C# are discussed concisely.Ê A separate chapter on C# 8.0 is added to highlight its new features. .. There is an appendix chapter as well that discusses how one can get started working with Visual Studio 2019. KEY FEATURESÊ Packed with plentiful code examples A comprehensive guide to mastering C# Discusses the OOP principles Targets beginner to advanced readers of C# Provides insight into the latest features of C#, including C# 8.0 Covers Visual Studio 2019 WHAT WILL YOU LEARNÊ By the end of reading this book, the reader will have mastered the concepts of C# programming language, and be able to build high performance, scalable and robust applications using C#. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊ This book is intended for people who are aspiring a career in .NET as well as for professionals who would like to master the concepts of C# programming language. Since this book is for beginner to advanced readers of C#, a basic knowledge of C# will be helpful. Table of Contents 1. Microsoft .NET Internals 2. Getting Started with C# 3. Object-oriented Programming - Part 1 4. Object-oriented Programming - Part 2 5. Properties and Indexers 6. Programming LINQ in C# 7. Generic Collections in C# 8. Delegates and Extension Methods 9. Exception Handling in C# 10. Asynchrony and Parallel programming 11. Multithreading in C# 12. File I/O and Serialization 13. Advanced Concepts in C# 14. New Features of C# 8.0 15 Appendix

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed

Author: Lars Powers

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2015-08-07

Total Pages: 2786

ISBN-13: 013413320X

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 empowers you to write next-generation applications for any modern environment: mobile, web, cloud, universal Windows 10/8.x, database, and beyond. This end-to-end deep dive will help working developers squeeze maximum productivity out of Microsoft’s powerful new toolset. The authors combine authoritative and detailed information about Microsoft’s latest IDE, with extensive insights and best practices drawn from decades of development experience. Developers will quickly get comfortable with Visual Studio 2015’s updated interface, master its new capabilities, leverage its extensive new support for open standards, and discover multiple opportunities to leverage its .NET 4.6 platform and language improvements. By focusing entirely on Visual Studio 2015 Professional, the authors go deeper into Microsoft’s core product than ever before. You’ll find expert coverage of everything from debugging through deploying to Azure, IDE extension and automation through cross-platform mobile development. Throughout, this book’s focus is relentlessly practical: how to apply Microsoft’s tools to build better software, faster. Detailed information on how to... Master Visual Studio 2015’s updated interface and key tools: Solutions, Projects, Browsers, Explorers, Editors, and Designers to improve productivity Develop robust cross-platform mobile apps for Windows, iOS, and Android using Apache Cordova templates for Visual Studio Use the new ASP.NET 5 to build modern web solutions that run on Windows, Mac, or Linux Develop Single Page Applications (SPAs) based on HTML5 and rich client-side JavaScript frameworks such as Knockout, AngularJS, Bootstrap, and more Accelerate cloud development with the Azure SDK, QuickStart templates, and Azure management portal Create mobile service solutions using ASP.NET Web API and WCF Streamline data development across multiple platforms with Entity Framework 7 Develop modern Microsoft Office business applications Perform robust, automated unit testing as you code, increasing your confidence in changes and refactoring Extend the VS 2015 IDE and Code Editor by creating custom, productivity-enhancing solutions Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672337369 as they become available.

Begin to Code with C#
Begin to Code with C#

Author: Rob Miles

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 1509301178

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Become a C# programmer—and have fun doing it! Start writing software that solves real problems, even if you have absolutely no programming experience! This friendly, easy, full-color book puts you in total control of your own learning, empowering you to build unique and useful programs. Microsoft has completely reinvented the beginning programmer’s tutorial, reflecting deep research into how today’s beginners learn, and why other books fall short. Begin to Code with C# is packed with innovations, from its “Snaps” prebuilt operations to its “Make Something Happen” projects. Whether you’re a total beginner or you’ve tried before, this guide will put the power, excitement, and fun of programming where it belongs: in your hands! Easy, friendly, and you’re in control! Learn how to... • Get the free tools you need to create modern programs • Work with 150 sample programs that illustrate important concepts • Use the sample programs as starting points for your own programs • Explore exactly what happens when a program runs • Approach program development with a professional perspective • Use powerful productivity shortcuts built into Microsoft Visual Studio • Master classes, interfaces, methods, and other essential concepts • Organize programs so they’re easy to construct and improve • Capture and respond to user input • Store and manipulate many types of real-world data • Create interactive games that are fun to play • Build modern interfaces your users will love • Test and debug your code—and avoid problems in the first place

Visual Studio.NET All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Visual Studio.NET All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Author: Nitin Pandey

Publisher: For Dummies

Published: 2002-04-15

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 9780764516269

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Visual Studio .NET All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is a value-packed, easy-to-use reference that provides broad coverage of Visual Studio .NET tools, languages, and environment for experienced Visual Studio programmers and developers who want to get up to speed rapidly on this missioncritical Microsoft initiative.