Professional Visual Studio 2013

  • 18h 37m
  • Bruce Johnson
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2014

Comprehensive guide to Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio is your essential tool for Windows programming. Visual Studio 2013 features important updates to the user interface and to productivity. In Professional Visual Studio 2013, author, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Microsoft Visual C# MVP Bruce Johnson brings three decades of industry experience to guide you through the update, and he doesn't just gloss over the basics. With his unique IDE-centric approach, he steers into the nooks and crannies to help you use Visual Studio 2013 to its maximum potential.

  • Choose from more theme options, check out the new icons, and make your settings portable
  • Step up your workflow with hover colors, auto brace completion, peek, and CodeLens
  • Code ASP.NET faster than ever with new shortcuts
  • Get acquainted with the new SharePoint 2013 environment
  • Find your way around the new XAML editor for Windows Store apps

Visual Studio 2013 includes better support for advanced debugging techniques, vast improvements to the visual database tools, and new support for UI testing for Windows Store apps. This update is the key to smoother, quicker programming, and Professional Visual Studio 2013 is your map to everything inside.

About the Author

Bruce Johnson is a partner at ObjectSharp Consulting and a 30 veteran of the computer industry. For almost 20 years, he has been working on projects that are at the leading edge of Windows technology, from C++ through Visual Basic to C#, and from thick client applications to websites to services.

In this Book

  • A Quick Tour
  • The Solution Explorer, Toolbox, and Properties
  • Options and Customizations
  • The Visual Studio Workspace
  • Find and Replace and Help
  • Solutions, Projects, and Items
  • IntelliSense and Bookmarks
  • Code Snippets and Refactoring
  • Server Explorer
  • Modeling with the Class Designer
  • Unit Testing
  • Documentation with XML Comments
  • Code Consistency Tools
  • Code Generation with T4
  • Project and Item Templates
  • Language-Specific Features
  • Windows Forms Applications
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Office Business Applications
  • Windows Store Applications
  • ASP.NET Web Forms
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Silverlight
  • Dynamic Data
  • SharePoint
  • Windows Azure
  • Visual Database Tools
  • DataSets and DataBinding
  • Language Integrated Queries (LINQ)
  • The ADO.NET Entity Framework
  • Reporting
  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
  • Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
  • Client Application Services
  • Synchronization Services
  • WCF RIA Services
  • Configuration Files
  • Connection Strings
  • Resource Files
  • Using the Debugging Windows
  • Debugging with Breakpoints
  • DataTips, Debug Proxies, and Visualizers
  • Debugging Web Applications
  • Advanced Debugging Techniques
  • Upgrading with Visual Studio 2013
  • Build Customization
  • Assembly Versioning and Signing
  • Obfuscation, Application Monitoring, and Management
  • Packaging and Deployment
  • Web Application Deployment
  • The Automation Model
  • Add-Ins
  • Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
  • Visual Studio Ultimate for Architects
  • Visual Studio Ultimate for Developers
  • Visual Studio Ultimate for Testers
  • Team Foundation Server
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