Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - Unleashed

2266 Pages·2016·51.784 MB·English

by  Lars Powers, Mike Snell

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

Unleashed

Lars Powers

Mike Snell

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed
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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33736-9
ISBN-10: 0-672-33736-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015907636
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First Printing August 2015
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Contents at a Glance

Introduction
Part I Introducing Visual Studio 2015
1 A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2015

2 The Visual Studio IDE

3 The .NET Languages

Part II An In-De pth Look at the IDE
4 Solutions and Projects

5 Browsers and Explorers

6 Introducing the Editors and Designers

Part III Working with the Visual Studio Tools
7 Working with Visual Studio’s Productivity Aids

8 Testing Code

9 Refactoring Code

10 Debugging Code
11 Deploying Code
12 Developing Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure
13 Working with Databases
Part IV Exte nding Visual Studio
14 Introducing the Automation Object Model

15 Extending the IDE

16 Extending the Code Editor

Part V Building We b Applications
17 Building Modern Websites with ASP.NET 5
18 Using JavaScript and Client-Side Frameworks
19 Building and Consuming Services with Web API and WCF
Part VI Building Windows Clie nt Apps
20 Building Windows Forms Applications

21 Building WPF Applications

22 Developing Office Business Applications
Part VII Cre ating Mobile Apps
23 Developing Windows Store Applications
24 Creating Windows Phone Applications
25 Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Introducing Visual Studio 2015
1 A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2015
The Visual Studio Product Line

Community Edition

Professional Edition

Enterprise

MSDN

TFS and Related Tools

Languages and Frameworks

Programming Language Choices

The .NET Framework

The Many Faces of a .NET Application
Windows
Web
Mobile
Developing Windows 8/10 Clients
Windows (WinForms)
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Office/SharePoint Solutions
Creating Web Applications with ASP.NET 5
Building Websites with Web Forms
Developing with MVC/Razor
Creating a Single Page Application (SPA)
Coding Web Services with Web API
Coding for Azure

Creating a Cloud Application

Publishing to Azure

Working with Data

Model as Code (Code First)

Writing Mobile Apps

Create an Apache Cordova App

Summary

2 The Visual Studio IDE
Installing Visual Studio
Installing Optional Features

Signing In to Visual Studio

Managing Your IDE Settings
Specify Stored and Synchronized Settings
Change Color Theme
Manually Import/Export and Change Default IDE Settings
Switch IDE User
Getting Started

Startup Options

Creating Your First Project

Targeting Your Environment

Navigating the IDE

The Menus

The Many Toolbars

Customizing Toolbars

The Solution Explorer

The Text Editors

The Visual Designers

The Toolbox

The Properties Window

Managing the Many Windows of the IDE

Pinning

Docking

Custom Window Layouts

Navigating IDE Windows

Touch Support

Customize Your IDE Font

Providing Feedback on Visual Studio

The Customer Experience Program

Summary

3 The .NET Language s
What’s New in C# 6.0 and VB 14

Null-Conditional Operators

ReadOnly Auto Properties

NameOf Expression

Using (Imports) Statics

String Interpolation

Lambda Expressions as Methods (C# Only)
Index Initializers (C# Only)
Language Primer

Programming Objects

Types, Variables, and Constants

Understanding Operators

Making Decisions and Branching Code

Looping

Working with Groups of Items

Programming with Attributes

Creating and Raising Events
Language Features
Infer a Variable’s Data Type Based on Assignment
Create an Object and Initialize Its Values (Object Initializers)
Define a Collection and Initialize Its Values
Creating an Instance of a Nonexistent Class
Add Methods to Existing Classes (Extension Methods)
Add Business Logic to Generated Code (Partial Methods)
Access and Query Data Using the .NET Languages
Write Simple Unnamed Functions Within Your Code (Lambda

Expressions)

Splitting an Assembly Across Multiple Files

Working with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)

Removing Unused Arguments from Event Handlers (VB Only)
Creating an Automatically Implemented Property
Dropping the Underscore in VB for Line Continuation
Working with Dynamic Languages/Objects

Covariance and Contravariance

Asynchronous Programming

The .NET Framework

A Map to the .NET Framework

Summary
Part II An In-De pth Look at the IDE
4 Solutions and Proje cts
Understanding Solutions

Creating a Solution

Working with Solutions

Getting Comfortable with Projects

Creating a Project