Professional Visual Studio 2012

Get savvy with Visual Studio 2012 This expert Wrox guide is exactly what you need to get up and running quickly with Visual Studio 2012. Written by a Microsoft Visual C# MVP, it guides you through the exciting features of the integrated development environment (IDE)—such as code snippets, refactoring, and patterns—while also showing you how to maximize all the latest tools and significant improvements to the technology. The in-depth coverage as well as numerous illustrative examples go a long way to get you up to speed so you can start using Visual Studio 2012 right away. Professional Visual Studio 2012: Explains how to use the class designer, server explorer, IntelliSense, and bookmarks Takes a thorough look at unit testing, documentation with XML comments, code tools, and language-specific features Explores ASP.NET applications (including MVC 4), Office business applications, and Windows Store applications Addresses a wide variety of data resources, such as visual database tools, datasets and databinding, and more Demonstrates how to use the debugging windows, debug with breakpoints, and advanced debugging techniques Highlights customizing and extending Visual Studio wrox.com Programmer Forums Join our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world. Code Downloads Take advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use. Read More Find articles, ebooks, sample chapters, and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.

INTRODUCTION xxxix PART I: INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER 1: A QUICK TOUR 3 CHAPTER 2: THE SOLUTION EXPLORER, TOOLBOX, AND PROPERTIES 13 CHAPTER 3: OPTIONS AND CUSTOMIZATIONS 31 CHAPTER 4: THE VISUAL STUDIO WORKSPACE 49 CHAPTER 5: FIND AND REPLACE AND HELP 67 PART II: GETTING STARTED CHAPTER 6: SOLUTIONS, PROJECTS, AND ITEMS 81 CHAPTER 7: INTELLISENSE AND BOOKMARKS 109 CHAPTER 8: CODE SNIPPETS AND REFACTORING 127 CHAPTER 9: SERVER EXPLORER 147 CHAPTER 10: MODELING WITH THE CLASS DESIGNER 163 PART III: DIGGING DEEPER CHAPTER 11: UNIT TESTING 177 CHAPTER 12: DOCUMENTATION WITH XML COMMENTS 197 CHAPTER 13: CODE CONSISTENCY TOOLS 219 CHAPTER 14: CODE GENERATION WITH T4 233 CHAPTER 15: PROJECT AND ITEM TEMPLATES 257 CHAPTER 16: LANGUAGE–SPECIFIC FEATURES 275 PART IV: RICH CLIENT APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 17: WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATIONS 291 CHAPTER 18: WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION (WPF) 305 CHAPTER 19: OFFICE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS 331 CHAPTER 20: WINDOWS STORE APPLICATIONS 347 PART V: WEB APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 21: ASP.NET WEB FORMS 361 CHAPTER 22: ASP.NET MVC 395 CHAPTER 23: SILVERLIGHT 425 CHAPTER 24: DYNAMIC DATA 439 CHAPTER 25: SHAREPOINT 461 CHAPTER 26: WINDOWS AZURE 483 PART VI: DATA CHAPTER 27: VISUAL DATABASE TOOLS 501 CHAPTER 28: DATASETS AND DATABINDING 509 CHAPTER 29: LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERIES (LINQ) 535 CHAPTER 30: THE ADO.NET ENTITY FRAMEWORK 561 CHAPTER 31: REPORTING 583 PART VII: APPLICATION SERVICES CHAPTER 32: WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (WCF) 619 CHAPTER 33: WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION (WF) 639 CHAPTER 34: CLIENT APPLICATION SERVICES 661 CHAPTER 35: SYNCHRONIZATION SERVICES 679 CHAPTER 36: WCF RIA SERVICES 689 PART VIII: CONFIGURATION AND RESOURCES CHAPTER 37: CONFIGURATION FILES 703 CHAPTER 38: CONNECTION STRINGS 721 CHAPTER 39: RESOURCE FILES 731 PART IX: DEBUGGING CHAPTER 40: USING THE DEBUGGING WINDOWS 751 CHAPTER 41: DEBUGGING WITH BREAKPOINTS 769 CHAPTER 42: DATATIPS, DEBUG PROXIES, AND VISUALIZERS 781 CHAPTER 43: DEBUGGING WEB APPLICATIONS 793 CHAPTER 44: ADVANCED DEBUGGING TECHNIQUES 811 PART X: BUILD AND DEPLOYMENT CHAPTER 45: UPGRADING WITH VISUAL STUDIO 2012 831 CHAPTER 46: BUILD CUSTOMIZATION 837 CHAPTER 47: ASSEMBLY VERSIONING AND SIGNING 853 CHAPTER 48: OBFUSCATION, APPLICATION MONITORING, AND MANAGEMENT 861 CHAPTER 49: PACKAGING AND DEPLOYMENT 881 CHAPTER 50: WEB APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT 895 PART XI: CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING VISUAL STUDIO CHAPTER 51: THE AUTOMATION MODEL 909 CHAPTER 52: ADD–INS 917 CHAPTER 53: MANAGED EXTENSIBILITY FRAMEWORK (MEF) 931 PART XII: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE CHAPTER 54: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE FOR ARCHITECTS 953 CHAPTER 55: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE FOR DEVELOPERS 965 CHAPTER 56: VISUAL STUDIO ULTIMATE FOR TESTERS 983 CHAPTER 57: TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER 997 INDEX 1021

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