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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook
Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook
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This book is a practical guide to using Visual Studio 2013 that will help you become familiar with the improvements made over previous versions. Each recipe provides a handson approach to the new features with stepbystep instructions on how to increase your productivity.

If you are a developer excited about the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2013, then no matter what your programming language of choice is, Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook is for you. You should have a good knowledge of working with previous versions of Visual Studio to enjoy the recipes in this book. This book provides practical examples to help you use Visual Studio 2013 more effectively.
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Release dateMar 17, 2014
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    Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook - Richard Banks

    Table of Contents

    Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

    Credits

    About the Authors

    About the Reviewers

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    Preface

    While you were gone

    VS2012 Update 1

    VS2012 Update 2

    VS2012 Update 3

    VS2012 Update 4

    Choosing a version of Visual Studio 2013

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Downloading the example code

    Downloading the color images of this book

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Discovering Visual Studio 2013

    Introduction

    Synchronizing settings

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Touring the VS2013 IDE

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    See also

    Project round-tripping

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Windows Store applications

    The Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework

    MSI setup (.vdproj)

    Upgrading an existing project

    Creating a new project

    Managing the editor windows

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more...

    Single-click preview in Solution Explorer

    Customizing tab and window behavior

    Finding Visual Studio commands

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    There's more…

    Searching and navigating

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    There's more…

    Quickly searching your code

    Navigating in depth

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more...

    Navigation behavior

    CSS, HTML, and JavaScript files

    2. Getting Started with Windows Store Applications

    Introduction

    Getting a Windows Store app developer license

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Choosing the right development technology

    Creating a Windows Store app

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Choosing the right project type

    Blank App

    Grid App

    Split App

    Fixed Layout App

    Navigation App

    Hub App

    Class Library

    Portable Class Library

    Unit Test Library

    Coded UI Testing

    DLL (Windows Store apps)

    Static Library (Windows Store apps)

    Windows Runtime Component

    DirectX App (XAML) and DirectX App

    Technology choice impacts available project templates

    .NET projects and the Windows Store apps profile

    Language interoperability

    Adding a Windows Store item template to your app

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Additional Windows Store item templates

    Blank Page

    Basic Page

    Split Page

    Items Page

    Item Detail Page

    Grouped Items Page

    Hub Page

    Group Detail Page

    Resource Directory

    Templated Control

    User Control

    File Open Picker Contract

    Search Results Page

    Share Target Contract

    Settings Flyout

    Resources File

    Page Control

    Language impacts item template options

    See also

    Using the Windows Store app simulator

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works...

    There's more...

    Resolution and resizing

    Remote debugging

    Location settings

    Taking screenshots

    See also

    Defining capabilities and contracts

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Contact Picker

    File Open Picker

    Search

    File Type Associations

    Share Target

    Capabilities

    Internet (Client)

    Internet (Client & Server)

    Home or Work Networking

    Library access

    See also

    Analyzing your App's performance

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works...

    There's more...

    Packaging your Windows Store app

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works…

    There's more...

    See also

    Validating your Windows Store app

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    See also

    3. Web Development – ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript

    Introduction

    Getting started with Bootstrap

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    There's more…

    Visual Studio 2012 Templates

    See also

    Previewing changes across multiple browsers

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more...

    Creating HTML5 web pages

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    There's more…

    Taking advantage of the CSS editor improvements

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    Understanding the JavaScript editor improvements

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    See also

    Adding bundling and minification to JavaScript and CSS files

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works…

    See also

    Verifying pages with the Page Inspector tool

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Partial pages and user controls

    If Page Inspector is too narrow

    4. .NET Framework 4.5.1 Development

    Introduction

    Adding the Ribbon to a WPF application

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    See also

    Creating a state machine in Visual Studio

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Panning

    C# Workflows

    Versioning your workflows

    Creating a task-based WCF service

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    See also

    Managing packages with NuGet

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Automatically loading packages

    Using custom package locations

    Unit testing .NET applications

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Can I restrict the unit tests that automatically execute?

    Asynchronous tests

    Automatically trigger test execution

    See also

    Sharing class libraries across runtimes

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Detecting duplicate code

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    5. Debugging Your .NET Application

    Introduction

    Maximizing everyday debugging

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    There's more…

    Debugging on remote machines and tablets

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Debugging an ASP.NET process

    Deploying directly to a remote machine

    Missing symbols

    Debugging code in production with IntelliTrace

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Finding the variable values

    Debugging parallel code

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    See also

    Visualizing concurrency

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    See also

    6. Asynchrony in .NET

    Introduction

    Making your code asynchronous

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    See also

    Understanding asynchrony and the Windows Runtime

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    Using asynchrony with web applications

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    See also

    Working with actors and the TPL Dataflow Library

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    See also

    7. Unwrapping C++ Development

    Introduction

    Using XAML with C++

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Unit testing C++ applications

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Running a unit test in debug mode

    See also

    Analyzing your C++ code

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    See also

    Using a custom rule set

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Working with DirectX in Visual Studio 2013

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Is managed DirectX supported?

    See also

    Creating a shader using DGSL

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works...

    See also

    Creating and displaying a 3D model

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    See also

    Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    8. Working with Team Foundation Server 2013

    Introduction

    Creating a new TFS project

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Managing your work

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Using favorites

    Shelving active work

    See also

    Using local workspaces for source control

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    See also

    Performing code reviews

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    See also

    Getting feedback from your users

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    Using Git for source control

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more...

    See also

    9. Languages

    Introduction

    Fortifying JavaScript applications with TypeScript

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Integrating Python into Visual Studio

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    There's more…

    Integrating Python with .NET

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works…

    A. Visual Studio Medley

    Introduction

    Creating installer packages

    Getting ready

    How to do it…

    How it works...

    See also

    Submitting apps to the Windows Store

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Sideloading

    See also

    Creating Visual Studio add-ins and extensions

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Creating your own snippets

    Getting ready

    How to do it...

    How it works...

    There's more…

    Index

    Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook


    Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook

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    Credits

    Authors

    Jeff Martin

    Richard Banks

    Reviewers

    Hulot

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    David Thibault

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    About the Authors

    Jeff Martin is a long-time technology enthusiast and has been a contributing writer for InfoQ (www.infoq.com) for over two years, focusing on .NET and Microsoft-based platforms. Having experience in writing, testing, and designing software, he enjoys learning about new technologies and explaining them to a broader audience.

    Readers are encouraged to follow @VSDevTips on Twitter to receive updates on the book as well as news for getting the most out of Visual Studio.

    I would like to thank my lovely wife Carolyn for her love and understanding during my frequent late-night writing sessions. Your support for these projects means more to me than I can express.

    I would also like to thank my brother Dan Martin for providing a great photo for the cover of this book.

    Finally, thank you to my entire production team at Packt Publishing for their effort and assistance in producing this book.

    Richard Banks has developed software for the last 20 years for a wide range of industries and development platforms. Over the years he has played many roles including that of a developer, team lead, project manager, and CIO/CTO. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, runs the Sydney ALT.NET user group and the Talking Shop Down Under podcast. He owns and contributes to a few open source projects, and has spoken at Microsoft TechEd and a number of other events and user groups around Australia. For some strange reason, he gets a real kick out of helping development teams to improve and produce great software. If you want to get in touch, he tweets at @rbanks54 and blogs at http://www.richard-banks.org/. He currently works as a Principal Consultant for Readify and is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP.

    It might have my name on the front cover but a book is never the work of just one person.

    I would firstly like to thank my fantastic wife, Anne, and my two wonderful children, Hannah and Leisel, for giving me the time and space to work on this book. Their support throughout the process has been invaluable, and without that I would never have undertaken this book in the first place.

    I’d also like to thank the staff and Packt Publishing for the opportunity and help in bringing this together, and my tech reviewers who gave up their spare time reading my scribble and checking if what I wrote actually made sense instead of being just a delirium-fuelled pile of nonsense.

    Thank you all!

    About the Reviewers

    Hulot has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years in different capabilities, from software development, project management to IT marketing product development and management. He has worked for multinational companies such as Royal Philips Electronics, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Microsoft. Currently, He has been working as an independent IT consultant. He is a Computer Science lecturer at two Brazilian universities. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of Southampton, UK and a B.Sc. in Physics from University of São Paulo, Brazil.

    I would like to thank my wife Mylene Melly for her continuous support. I would also like to thank my many colleagues over the years who have made it possible to learn what I now know about software development and the computer industry.

    Darren Kopp is a father, husband, software engineer, and gamer. Darren started programming when making a website for his clan in the game Tribes using ASP and then moved on to ASP.NET when .NET 1.1 was released.

    Darren started professional development work in the golf industry, developing systems ranging from e-commerce solutions for golf shops to systems tracking swing profiles of golfers. He then moved on to the construction industry where he developed software that integrated payroll, human resources, service management, and project management.

    Darren currently works for DevResults that provides web-based solutions to the international development and humanitarian community.

    When Darren isn’t coding or spending time with family, you can find him tweeting jokes and playing Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield 4.

    Anand Narayanaswamy works as an editor with InfoQ based in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He is an ASPInsider and was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2002 to 2011.

    Anand also worked as a chief technical editor for ASPAlliance.com and contributed several articles and reviews for DevPro, c-sharpcorner.com, developer.com, codeguru.com, and various other community sites.

    Anand also worked as a technical editor for several popular publishers such as Sams, Addison-Wesley Professional, Wrox, Deitel, Packt Publishing, and Manning.

    He blogs at www.learnxpress.com and can be reached at www.facebook.com/anandn. His twitter handle is @visualanand.

    Sergiy Suchok graduated in 2004 with honors from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) and has since then been keen on information technology. He is currently working in the banking sector and has a Ph.D. in Economics. Sergiy is the co-author of more than 45 articles and participated in more than 20 scientific and practical conferences devoted to the economic and mathematical modeling. He is a member of the New Atlantis Youth Public Organization (newatlantida.org.ua) and devotes his leisure time to environmental protection issues, historical and patriotic development, and popularization of a grateful attitude towards the Earth. He also writes poetry and short stories and makes macramé.

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    Preface

    The Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook has been written to provide you with an informative tour around Visual Studio 2013 (VS2013). Topics have been broken down into quick-to-access segments called recipes, allowing you to easily find the material that interests you.

    Some recipes will directly apply to your regular tasks while others are intended to shed some light on overlooked corners of Visual Studio. Given its long pedigree, extensive functionality has been added over the years, which is easy to overlook. The goal is that by reading this book, you will become more proficient with the tool that you use most as a Windows developer.

    This second edition has been revised and expanded to cover the new features of VS2013 so that regardless of whether you are upgrading from VS2012 or are making a bigger step from an earlier version, there will be helpful tips and discussion of this new version. For those of you who purchased the first edition, welcome back, and to our new readers thank you for joining us. Let's get started!

    While you were gone

    Since the launch of VS2012, Microsoft has released four updates referred to as 2012.1, 2012.2, and so on. Each have added functionality to the original program, and each installed package is cumulative, meaning that only the newest one has to be installed to provide the benefits of all previous updates.

    VS2012 Update 1

    First and foremost is the ability VS2012.1 provides for C++ developers to target Windows XP clients while using the VS2012 compiler. This is a key ability if you desire to continue compiling applications that run on Windows XP and Vista as well as Windows 7 and 8. JavaScript programmers will appreciate the inclusion of memory profiling and memory analysis tools. SharePoint developers will gain load testing support and the use of SharePoint emulators. Full details are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797915.

    VS2012 Update 2

    This update includes ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, unit testing support for Windows Phone, and broader unit testing capabilities for Windows Store apps. 2012.2 includes a host of bug fixes and stability improvements that benefit all areas of the program, right from the debugger to memory leaks in C++ based solutions, and several use cases that would cause the IDE to crash. Full details are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797912.

    VS2012 Update 3

    2012.3 primarily provides bug patches and performance improvements. Notable for those using VS2012 and VS2013 concurrently is 2012.3's improved compatibility with VS2013 projects. Several stability fixes were made that among other things prevent crashes in web projects, fix a conflict between VS2012 and VS2010, and correct slowdowns when developing mixed-mode C++ applications. Installing Update 3 provides the ability to install the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Git, a popular open source version control system. Full details are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835600.

    VS2012 Update 4

    Similar to 2012.3, this update is focused in bug fixes and stability enhancements. As this release coincides with the production release of VS2013, it provides some improved compatibility for sharing projects/solutions between VS2012 and VS2013. Full details are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2872520.

    Tip

    At the time of this writing, there is no reason to avoid installing the latest update available for VS2012 whether using an Express edition or one of the premium editions. Several meaningful improvements have been made to the product since its original release date that benefit all users. Microsoft provides both a web-based installer and a complete standalone ISO at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=301713.

    Choosing a version of Visual Studio 2013

    Visual Studio comes in several different versions, each with different capabilities and target audiences. In all cases, the minimum supported operating system is Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 on the desktop or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 on the server. The two biggest differences of the Visual Studio line-up are between the Express and non-Express (premium) versions. Express editions are offered by Microsoft free of charge, and target a specific type of application development:

    Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web: As the name implies, this is appropriate for those seeking to build web-based applications using technologies that include HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

    Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows: Probably better titled …for Windows Store apps, this edition targets Windows Store apps exclusively. HTML5/JavaScript, C#, C++, and Visual Basic are all acceptable choices for app development. An emulator is bundled for testing apps across various devices.

    Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop: Traditional Windows desktop applications can be created with this edition using C#, C++, or Visual Basic.

    Tip

    Multiple Express editions can be installed side by side, so you feel free to install any/all of the preceding editions as needed for your work.

    The non-Express editions run from Visual Studio Professional 2013 to Visual Studio Ultimate 2013. Ultimate has the entire available functionality, whereas Professional is limited to Peek Definition. One advantage all non-Express editions share is that all possible development types (web, apps, and desktop) are available in a single installation. The non-Express editions are as follows:

    Visual Studio Professional 2013: This supports development of all application types and includes the Peek Definition feature.

    Visual Studio Premium 2013: In addition to the preceding edition, notable features include project management functionality, coded UI testing for XAML Windows Store 8.1 apps, and C++ Profile Guided Optimization.

    Visual Studio Ultimate 2013: In addition to the two preceding editions, notable features include CodeLens, IntelliTrace, Memory Dump Analyzer, and cloud-based load testing.

    Visual Studio Test Professional 2013: As its name implies, this edition primarily focuses on testing.

    Visual Studio 2013 will make certain options available to you based on the underlying version of Windows that you are running. If you are running Windows 8.1, you will only be able to create new Windows Store applications for Windows 8.1. You will be able to open existing Windows 8 app solutions in VS2013, but not create new ones. You are able to create new Windows 8 apps only with VS2012, but this should be considered a special case given the arrival of Windows 8.1. Windows

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