Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0, 7th Edition

18Visual Studio 2017

WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Using Visual Studio 2017
• Creating and working with projects
• Debugging
• Refactoring with Visual Studio
• Working with various technologies: UWP, ASP.NET Core, and more
• Analyzing applications
• Creating and using containers with Docker

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com on the Download Code tab. The source code is also available at https://github.com/ProfessionalCSharp/ProfessionalCSharp7 in the directory VisualStudio.

The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

• DockerSample
• WebAppWithVS

WORKING WITH VISUAL STUDIO 2017

At this point, you should be familiar with the C# language and almost ready to move on to the applied sections of the book, which cover how to use C# to program a variety of applications. Before doing that, however, it’s important to understand how you can use Visual Studio and some of the features provided by the .NET environment to get the best from your programs.

This chapter explains what programming in the .NET environment means in practice. It covers Visual Studio, the main development environment in which you will write, compile, debug, and optimize your C# programs, and provides guidelines for writing good applications. Visual Studio is the main IDE used for numerous purposes, including writing ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web applications, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications, and apps for ...