Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook

308 Pages·2014·4.759 MB·English

by  Abhishek Sur

Visual Studio 2013
and .NET 4.5 Expert
Cookbook
Over 30 recipes to successfully mix the powerful
capabilities of Visual Studio 2013 with .NET 4.5
Abhishek Sur
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert
Cookbook
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Credits
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Abhishek Sur Roshni Banerjee
Gladson Monteiro
Reviewers Adithi Shetty
Carlos Hulot
Darren Kopp
Proofreaders
Sergey Kosivchenko Simran Bhogal
André Matos Maria Gould
Anand Narayanaswamy Ameesha Green
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Content Development Editor
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About the Author
Abhishek Sur has been a Microsoft MVP since 2011. He is currently working as a Product
Head with Insync Tech-Fin Solutions Pvt Ltd. He has profound theoretical insight and years of
hands-on experience in different .NET products and languages. Over the years, he has helped
developers throughout the world with his experience and knowledge. He owns a Microsoft
User Group in Kolkata named Kolkata Geeks and regularly organizes events and seminars in
various places to spread .NET awareness. A renowned public speaker, voracious reader, and
technology buff, Abhishek's main interest lies in exploring the new realms of .NET technology
and coming up with priceless write-ups on the unexplored domains of .NET. He is associated
with Microsoft's Insider list on WPF and C# and stays in touch with Product Group teams.
He holds a Master's degree in Computer Application along with various other certificates to
his credit.
Abhishek is a freelance content producer, developer, and site administrator. His website
www.abhisheksur.com guides both budding and experienced developers in understanding
the details of languages and latest technologies. He has a huge fan following on social
networks. You can reach him at [email protected], get online updates from his
Facebook account, or follow him on Twitter @abhi2434.
About the Reviewers
Carlos Hulot has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years in different
capabilities, from software development and project management, to IT marketing / product
development and management. He has worked for multinational companies such as Royal
Philips Electronics, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Microsoft. Currently, he is working as an
independent IT consultant. Carlos is a Computer Science lecturer at two Brazilian universities
and holds a PhD in Computer Science and Electronics from University of Southampton, UK,
and a BSc degree in Physics from University of São Paulo, Brazil.
I would like to thank my wife, Mylene Melly, for her continuous support. I
would also like to thank my many colleagues over the years that have made
it possible for me to learn what I know now about software development and
the computer industry.
Darren Kopp is a father, husband, software engineer, and gamer. He started programming
when creating a website for his clan in the game Tribes using ASP and then moved on to
ASP.NET when .NET 1.1 was released.
Darren started professional development work with the golf industry, developing systems
ranging from e-commerce solutions for golf shops to systems that tracked the swing profiles
of golfers. He then moved on to the construction industry where he developed software that
integrated payroll, human resources, service management, and project management.
Darren currently works for DevResults, which provide web-based solutions to the international
development and humanitarian communities. When he isn't coding or spending time with
his family, you can find him on Twitter making jokes and playing Team Fortress 2 and
Battlefield 4.
Sergey Kosivchenko is a 23-year-old software developer in the field of automation
of business processes in manufacturing with about 5 years of experience. C#, WPF,
and Entity Framework are some of the main tools used by Sergey to implement solutions.
He spends most of his free time gaining new knowledge about software development
and computer technologies.
For over 10 years, Sergey has been working in a company that develops web- and client-side
applications and has now become one of the leaders in software development in the Southern
Federal District of Russian Federation.
André Matos is a senior software engineer who discovered his passion for technology when
he was a teenager. He got his first computer when he was 16, discovered the Internet a year
later, and decided that he must know more about technology. He finished his MSc back in
2012 from a Portuguese university, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, specializing in
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data exploration.
André, now 27 years old, has experience in several technologies and platforms, starting his
professional career back in 2008 with a mission to build a website for maps in Portugal to
compete against Google Maps. There, he fell in love with JavaScript and GIS. He built the
website and a GIS platform to support it and it was a huge success in Portugal.
Nowadays, André works for British Sky Broadcasting. His task is to build a video-on-demand
service, which will run on multiple platforms. He is responsible for the backend infrastructure
and service availability.
Apart from the frontend technologies, André is an open source enthusiast with several open
source projects hosted on his GitHub repo (http://github.com/apdmatos), and has
contributed to other projects, such as jQuery, Ninject, and Underscore.
Anand Narayanaswamy, an ASPInsider, works as a freelance writer based in Trivandrum,
Kerala, India. He was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2002 to 2011 and
had worked as a Chief Technical Editor for www.ASPAlliance.com for a period of 5 years.
Anand has also worked as a technical editor for several popular publishers, such as Sams,
Addison-Wesley Professional, Wrox, Deitel, Packt Publishing, and Manning. His technical
editing skills helped the authors of Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days,
Sams; Core C# and .NET: The Complete and Comprehensive Developer's Guide to C# 2.0
and .NET 2.0, Prentice Hall; Professional ADO.NET 2 Programming with SQL Server 2005,
Oracle and MySQL, Wrox; ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action: Building Dynamic Web Portals,
Wrox, and Internet and World Wide Web (4th Edition), Deitel, to fine-tune the content.
He also contributed articles to the Microsoft Knowledge Base, and sites such as
www.c-sharpcorner.com, www.developer.com, and www.codeguru.com,
and delivered podcast shows.
Anand runs his own blog at LearnXpress (www.learnxpress.com) and provides blog script
installation services. He also hosts a video channel at http://tv.learnxpress.com,
where you can watch free videos related to Windows, social media, and other related
technologies. He is the author and publisher of free LearnXpress study guides that can be
downloaded in PDF format directly from his blog.
Anand can be reached at [email protected] and will smile if you follow him on
Twitter @visualanand.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: A Guide to Debugging with Visual Studio 7
Introduction 7
Debugging source code using breakpoints 9
Using DataTips during debugging 18
Debugging a multithreaded program 24
Exploring the Command and Immediate windows 28
Making use of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 31
Debugging a .NET program using the framework library source 35
Debugging a process that is already deployed 37
Chapter 2: Enhancements to WCF 4.5 41
Introduction 41
Understanding Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) by creating
a basic application 44
Hosting a WCF service in different hosting environments 56
Streaming data over a network using a WCF service 61
Writing a REST-based WCF service 67
Creating a WCF service using the Open Data Protocol standards 78
Extending a WCF service (service extensibility) 92
Chapter 3: Building a Touch-sensitive Device Application Using
Windows Phone 8 101
Introduction 101
Building your first Windows Phone 8 application following the
MVVM pattern 103
Working with Launchers and Choosers in Windows Phone 114
Working with relational databases and persistent storage 126
Working with notifications in Windows Phone 143