Visual studio 2013 cookbook : over 50 simple but incredibly effective recipes to get you up and running with the powerful features of visual studio 2013 / Jeff Martin, Richard Banks ; Dan Martin, cover image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Jeff, author.

Banks, Richard, author.

Contributor:

Martin, Dan, cover designer.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Active server pages.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is a practical guide to using Visual Studio 2013 that will help you become familiar with the improvements made over previous versions. Each recipe provides a hands-on approach to the new features with step-by-step instructions on how to increase your productivity.If you are a developer excited about the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2013, then no matter what your programming language of choice is, Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook is for you. You should have a good knowledge of working with previous versions of Visual Studio to enjoy the recipes in this book. This book provides

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Discovering Visual Studio 2013; Introduction; Synchronizing settings; Touring the VS2013 IDE; Project round-tripping; Managing the editor windows; Finding Visual Studio commands; Searching and navigating; Navigating in depth; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Windows Store Applications; Introduction; Getting a Windows Store app developer license; Creating a Windows Store app; Adding a Windows Store item template to your app; Using the Windows Store app simulator

Defining capabilities and contractsAnalyzing your App's performance; Packaging your Windows Store app; Validating your Windows Store app; Chapter 3: Web Development - ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript; Introduction; Getting started with Bootstrap; Previewing changes across multiple browsers; Creating HTML5 web pages; Taking advantage of the CSS editor improvements; Understanding the JavaScript editor improvements; Adding bundling and minification to JavaScript and CSS files; Verifying pages with the Page Inspector tool; Chapter 4: .NET Framework 4.5.1 Development; Introduction

Adding the Ribbon to a WPF applicationCreating a state machine in Visual Studio; Creating a task-based WCF service; Managing packages with NuGet; Unit testing .NET applications; Sharing class libraries across runtimes; Detecting duplicate code; Chapter 5: Debugging Your .NET Application; Introduction; Maximizing everyday debugging; Debugging on remote machines and tablets; Debugging code in production with IntelliTrace; Debugging parallel code; Visualizing concurrency; Chapter 6: Asynchrony in .NET; Introduction; Making your code asynchronous; Understanding asynchrony and the Windows Runtime

Using asynchrony with web applicationsWorking with actors and the TPL Dataflow Library; Chapter 7: Unwrapping C++ Development; Introduction; Using XAML with C++; Unit testing C++ applications; Analyzing your C++ code; Using a custom rule set; Working with DirectX in Visual Studio 2013; Creating a shader using DGSL; Creating and displaying a 3D model; Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics; Chapter 8: Working with Team Foundation Server 2013; Introduction; Creating a new TFS project; Managing your work; Using local workspaces for source control; Performing code reviews

Getting feedback from your usersUsing Git for source control; Chapter 9: Languages; Introduction; Fortifying JavaScript applications with TypeScript; Integrating Python into Visual Studio; Integrating Python with .NET; Appendix: Visual Studio Medley; Introduction; Creating installer packages; Submitting apps to the Windows Store; Creating Visual Studio add-ins and extensions; Creating your own snippets; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 3, 2014).

ISBN:

9781782171973

1782171975

OCLC:

874320162