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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Mastering Visual Studio 2017

By : Kunal Chowdhury
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Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Mastering Visual Studio 2017

2.9 (7)
By: Kunal Chowdhury

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2017 is the all-new IDE released by Microsoft for developers, targeting Microsoft and other platforms to build stunning Windows and web apps. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2017 offers, but also what it takes to put it to work for your projects. Visual Studio 2017 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book will get you started with the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2017 IDE and C# 7.0. Next, you will learn to use XAML tools to build classic WPF apps, and UWP tools to build apps targeting Windows 10. Later, you will learn about .NET Core and then explore NuGet, the package manager for the Microsoft development platform. Then, you will familiarize yourself with the debugging and live unit testing techniques that comes with the IDE. Finally, you'll adapt Microsoft's implementation of cloud computing with Azure, and the Visual Studio integration with Source Control repositories.
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Preparing UWP apps to publish to Windows Store

When you have finished developing your Universal Windows application, have tested it properly, and are ready to publish it to Microsoft Windows Store for the people to install on their devices and use, you need to perform some basic steps in order to generate the app package and validate the bundle locally with the Windows App Certification Kit (WACK).

First, make sure that the package manifest file is correct and has all the required information updated. To do this, open the Package.appxmanifest file and visit all the tab details available there. In the Application tab, enter the Display name that you want for your app, select the supported orientations that your app supports, lock screen notification type, and others as shown in the following screenshot:

In the Visual Assets tab, select the images and/or generate them using the...

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