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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 portableStep up your workflow with hover colors, auto brace completion, peek, and CodeLensCode ASP.NET faster than ever with new shortcutsGet acquainted with the new SharePoint 2013 environmentFind your way around the new XAML editor for Windows Store appsVisual 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.
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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.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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Introduction xliii
Part I: Integrated Development Environment
Chapter 1: A Quick Tour 3
Getting Started 3
The Visual Studio IDE 7
Chapter 2: The Solution Explorer, Toolbox, and Properties 15
The Solution Explorer 15
The Toolbox 23
Properties 27
Chapter 3: Options and Customizations 33
The Start Page 33
Window Layout 34
The Editor Space 39
Other Options 43
Importing and Exporting Settings 47
Chapter 4: The Visual Studio Workspace 51
The Code Editor 51
Code Navigation 60
The Command Window 65
The Immediate Window 66
The Class View 67
The Error List 68
The Object Browser 68
The Code Definition Window 69
The Call Hierarchy Window 70
The Document Outline Tool Window 71
Reorganizing Tool Windows 73
Chapter 5: Find and Replace and Help 75
Quick Find/Replace 75
Find/Replace in Files 78
Accessing Help 82
Part II: Getting Started
Chapter 6: Solutions, Projects, and Items 89
Solution Structure 89
Solution File Format 91
Solution Properties 92
Project Types 95
Project Files Format 97
Project Properties 97
Web Application Project Properties 112
Web Site Projects 115
Chapter 7: IntelliSense and Bookmarks 117
IntelliSense Explained 117
JavaScript IntelliSense 124
XAML IntelliSense 126
IntelliSense Options 127
Extended IntelliSense 129
Bookmarks and the Bookmark Window 130
Chapter 8: Code Snippets and Refactoring 133
Code Snippets Revealed 133
Accessing Refactoring Support 144
Refactoring Actions 144
Chapter 9: Server Explorer 151
Server Connections 151
Data Connections 164
SharePoint Connections 164
Summary 165
Chapter 10: Modeling with the Class Designer 167
Creating a Class Diagram 167
The Design Surface 168
The Toolbox 169
The Class Details 170
The Properties Window 171
Layout 172
Exporting Diagrams 172
Code Generation and Refactoring 173
Part III: Digging Deeper
Chapter 11: Unit Testing 179
Your First Test Case 179
Asserting the Facts 188
Initializing and Cleaning Up 191
Testing Context 192
Advanced Unit Testing 195
Testing Code Contracts 197
Chapter 12: Documentation with XML Comments 201
Inline Commenting 201
XML Comments 202
Using XML Comments 215
Generating Documentation with GhostDoc 216
Compiling Documentation with Sandcastle 218
Task List Comments 220
Chapter 13: Code Consistency Tools 223
Source Control 223
Coding Standards 228
Chapter 14: Code Generation with T4 235
Creating a T4 Template 235
T4 Building Blocks 238
How T4 Works 242
T4 Directives 244
Troubleshooting 247
Generating Code Assets 248
Runtime Text Templates 252
Tips and Tricks 256
Summary 257
Chapter 15: Project and Item Templates 259
Creating Templates 259
Extending Templates 267
Starter Kits 274
Online Templates 275
Chapter 16: Language-Specific Features 277
Hitting a Nail with the Right Hammer 277
A Tale of Two Languages 280
Visual Basic 283
F# 284
Part IV: Rich Client Applications
Chapter 17: Windows Forms Applications 293
Getting Started 293
The Windows Form 294
Form Design Preferences 296
Adding and Positioning Controls 298
Container Controls 303
Docking and Anchoring Controls 305
Summary 306
Chapter 18: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 307
What Is WPF? 307
Getting Started with WPF 309
The WPF Designer and XAML Editor 315
Styling Your Application 326
Windows Forms Interoperability 327
Debugging with the WPF Visualizer 330
Chapter 19: Office Business Applications 333
Choosing an Office Project Type 333
Creating a Document-Level Customization 335
Creating an Application Add-in 340
Debugging Office Applications 345
Deploying Office Applications 347
Chapter 20: Windows Store Applications 349
What Is a Windows Store Application? 349
Creating a Windows Store Application 352
Part V: Web Applications
Chapter 21: AS P.NET Web Forms 363
Web Application versus Web Site Projects 363
Creating Web Projects 364
Designing Web Forms 371
Web Controls 380
Master Pages 385
Rich Client-Side Development 387
Chapter 22: AS P.NET MV C 395
Model View Controller 396
Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 396
Choosing a Model 398
Controllers and Action Methods 399
Rendering a UI with Views 402
Advanced MVC 409
Chapter 23: Silverlight 425
What Is Silverlight? 425
Getting Started with Silverlight 426
Navigation Framework 432
Theming 433
Enabling Running Out of Browser 435
Chapter 24: Dynamic Data 439
Creating a Dynamic Data Web Application 440
Customizing the Data Model 444
Customizing the Presentation 449
Enabling Dynamic Data for Existing Projects 460
Chapter 25: SharePoint 461
SharePoint Execution Models 461
Preparing the Development Environment 463
Exploring SharePoint 2013 464
Creating a SharePoint Project 466
Building Custom SharePoint Components 469
Working with Features 476
Packaging and Deployment 477
Chapter 26: Windows Azure 481
The Windows Azure Platform 482
SQL Azure 492
AppFabric 494
Azure Websites 494
Azure Virtual Machines 495
Part VI: Data
Chapter 27: Visual Database Tools 499
Database Windows in Visual Studio 2013 499
Editing Data 506
Chapter 28: DataSets and DataBinding 507
DataSets Overview 507
Binding Data 512
Working with Data Sources 527
Summary 532
Chapter 29: Language Integrated
Queries (LINQ) 533
LINQ Providers 533
Old-School Queries 534
Query Pieces 536
Debugging and Execution 540
LINQ to XML 541
Querying XML 544
Schema Support 545
LINQ to SQL 547
LINQPad 556
Chapter 30: The ADO .NET Entity Framework 559
What Is the Entity Framework? 560
Getting Started 561
Creating an Entity Model 561
Querying the Entity Model 573
Advanced Functionality 579
Chapter 31: Reporting 581
Getting Started with Reporting 581
Designing Reports 583
Rendering Reports 610
Deploying Reports 613
Chapter 32: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 617
What Is WCF? 617
Getting Started 618
Defining Contracts 619
Configuring WCF Service Endpoints 623
Hosting WCF Services 626
Consuming a WCF Service 631
Chapter 33: Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF) 637
What Is Windows Workflow Foundation? 637
Why Use Windows Workflow? 638
Workflow Concepts 638
Getting Started 642
The Workflow Foundation Designer 644
Creating a Workflow 647
Hosting the Workflow Designer 654
Chapter 34: Client Application Services 659
Client Services 659
Role Authorization 662
User Authentication 664
Settings 666
Login Form 670
Offline Support 672
Chapter 35: Synchronization Services 677
Occasionally Connected Applications 677
Server Direct 678
Getting Started with Synchronization Services 681
Synchronization Services over N-Tiers 685
Chapter 36: WCF RIA Services 687
Getting Started 687
Domain Services 689
Domain Operations 692
Consuming a Domain Service in Silverlight 693
Part VIII: Confi guration and Resources
Chapter 37: Configuration Files 701
.Config Files 701
Configuration Schema 703
Application Settings 708
User Settings 715
Referenced Projects with Settings 716
Chapter 38: Connection Strings 719
Connection String Wizard 719
SQL Server Format 723
In-Code Construction 724
Encrypting Connection Strings 726
LocalDB 727
Chapter 39: Resource Files 729
What Are Resources? 729
Resourcing Your Application 735
Satellite Resources 737
Accessing Specifics 739
Coding Resource Files 741
Custom Resources 742
Chapter 40: Using the Debugging Windows 749
The Code Window 749
The Breakpoints Window 750
The Output Window 751
The Immediate Window 752
The Watch Windows 753
The Code Execution Windows 755
The Memory Windows 757
IntelliTrace (Ultimate Edition Only) 759
The Parallel Debugging Windows 760
Exceptions 763
Chapter 41: Debugging with Breakpoints 767
Breakpoints 767
Tracepoints 773
Execution Control 774
Edit and Continue 776
Chapter 42: DataTips, Debug Proxies, and Visualizers 779
DataTips 779
Debugger Attributes 781
Type Proxies 784
Visualizers 786
Advanced Techniques 788
Summary 790
Chapter 43: Debugging Web App lic ations 791
Debugging Server-Side ASP.NET Code 791
Debugging Client-Side JavaScript 796
Tracing 800
Health Monitoring 803
Chapter 44: Advanced Debugging Techniques 807
Start Actions 807
Debugging with Code 809
Debugging Running Applications 811
.NET Framework Source 819
Multithreaded and Parallelized Application Debugging 821
Debugging SQL Server Stored Procedures 822
Mixed-Mode Debugging 823
Post-Mortem Debugging 823
Part X: Build and Deployment
Chapter 45: Up grading with VisualStudio 2013 829
Upgrading from Visual Studio 2012 or 2010 829
Upgrading to .NET Framework 4.5.1 832
Chapter 46: Build Customization 835
General Build Options 835
Manual Dependencies 838
The Visual Basic Compile Page 838
C# Build Pages 843
MSBuild 844
Chapter 47: Assembly Versioning and Signing 851
Assembly Naming 851
Version Consistency 854
Strongly Named Assemblies 855
The Global Assembly Cache 856
Signing an Assembly 856
Chapter 48: O bfuscation, Application Monitoring, and Management 859
The MSIL Disassembler 859
Decompilers 861
Obfuscating Your Code 862
Application Monitoring and Management 870
Chapter 49: Packaging and Deployment 879
Windows Installer XML Toolset 880
ClickOnce 886
Chapter 50: Web Application Deployment 893
Web Deployment 893
Web Project Installers 896
The Web Platform Installer 897
Part XI: Customizing and Extending Vi sual Studio
Chapter 51: The Automation Model 905
Visual Studio Extensibility Options 905
The Visual Studio Automation Model 906
Chapter 52: Add-Ins 913
Developing an Add-in 913
Deploying Add-ins 926
Chapter 53: Managed Extensibility Framework (ME F) 927
Getting Started with MEF 928
The Visual Studio Editor 934
Extending the Editor 935
Part XII: Vi sual Studio Ultimate
Chapter 54: Visual Studio Ultimate for Architects 949
Modeling Projects 949
Exploring Code 956
Chapter 55: Visual Studio Ultimate for Developers 961
Code Metrics 961
Managed Code Analysis Tool 964
C/C++ Code Analysis Tool 965
Profiling Tools 965
Standalone Profiler 968
IntelliTrace 969
Database Tools 970
Chapter 56: Visual Studio Ultimate for Testers 977
Automated Tests 977
Relating Code and Tests 984
Visual Studio Test Management 986
Microsoft Test Manager 986
Chapter 57: Team Foundation Server 991
Team Project 992
Process Templates 992
Work Item Tracking 995
Excel and Project Integration 998
Version Control 1000
Team Foundation Build 1008
Reporting and Business Intelligence 1010
Team Portal 1011
Summary 1012
Index 1013
