Professional Visual Studio 2013
| By: | Bruce Johnson |
| Publisher: | Wiley Professional Development (P&T) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781118832042 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781118832066 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Visual Studio and ASP.NET titles have long enjoyed best-seller status in Wrox, with 10s of thousands of books sold. Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is the primary technology used by developers to create and manage programming projects for the Windows platform. The 2013 release fixes a number of crucial issues that crippled VS 2012, and didnt compel many developers to upgrade. Visual Studio 2013 fixes these issues, and it'sinitially been met with applause from the developer community. In this release, many of the changes relate to tooling for new products, as well as features which enhance developer productivity. Roughly 20-25% of the chapters will see significant updates, and many figures reshotthroughout the book. Updates include: Chapter 3. Options and Customizations - more options with respect to themes. Different icons. Options for high-density displays. Settings can follow your Microsoft Account from place to place. Chapter 4. The Visual Studio Workspace - a number of changes to how users can work with the code. This includes hover colors, scoll bar states, active/inactive instances. Auto brace completion. Peek. CodeLens Chapter 8. Code Snippets and Refactoring -there is a different way of using short cuts to generate ASP.NET code Chapter 11. Unit Testing - a number of different types of unit testing are now supported. This includes UI testing capabilities for Windows Store applications. Chapter 20. Windows STORE Applications - Some significant changes were made to the XAML editor for Windows Store applications and tooling in the IDE was improved Chapter 25. SharePoint - Major Changes to target SharePoint 2013. Chapter 27. Visual Database Tools- a number of improvements and additions in this area. This includes a new Data Compare function, as well as database unit testing that was introduced in December. Chapter 44. Advanced Debugging Techniques - memory diagnostics and better support for debugging asynchronous calls. Any .NET developer will need to get up to speed on these important updates and this book provides them everything they need.