Chapter 4. .NET Framework Development

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a task-based WCF service
  • Unit testing .NET applications
  • Sharing class libraries across different runtimes
  • Detecting duplicate code
  • Exploring C# through the Immediate window

Introduction

In Chapter 3, Web Development, we looked at web development, and how Visual Studio supports web developers. Of course, the .NET Framework is also useful for writing traditional desktop applications and server-side programming.

In this chapter, we turn the spotlight on Visual Studio 2015's support for the .NET platform for non-web applications. We will look specifically at functionality that has been added or enhanced. This chapter will start by discussing what was included ...

Get Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.