Increase your productivity with Visual Studio 2019’s new features Understand how the installation wizard works and create an offline installation package Build stunning applications using WPF, .NET Core, and TypeScript Explore NuGet packages in depth Accelerate cloud development with Azure Debug and test your applications efficiently Get to grips with integrating Visual Studio with Git repositories Visual Studio 2019 is the latest IDE from Microsoft for developers targeting Windows and other platforms to build stunning desktop, web and mobile applications. In this book, you’ll learn how to effectively use this IDE to build, debug, and test your applications to enhance productivity by simplifying your most common tasks and allowing more time to focus on other aspects of your project. Starting with an overview of the new features in Visual Studio 2019, you’ll understand what’s improved since its previous edition. This Visual Studio book will help you build applications for Windows using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which provides a unified programming model for developing dynamic, rich, data-driven desktop applications. You’ll then learn about Microsoft's implementation of cloud computing with Azure, followed by building applications using .NET Core and TypeScript. This book will also help you explore NuGet, the package manager for the Microsoft development platform, that enables you to create, publish, and consume packages from a central repository by managing a reference list of packages. Finally, you’ll delve into the debugging and live unit testing techniques that are built into the IDE. By the end of the book, you’ll have become a more efficient Visual Studio 2019 user, and be able to use it for developing, testing, debugging and deploying your applications. Learn how to write better code with the new and improved Visual Studio 2019 toolset Accelerate cloud development with built-in Azure tools Collaborate with a distributed team by integrating Visual Studio with source control repositories Table of contents 1 What's New in the Visual Studio 2019 IDE? Technical requirements The Visual Studio 2019 installation experience Overview of the new Start window Improved search in Visual Studio 2019 Quick actions improvements for code refactoring Visual Studio IntelliCode One-click code cleanup Clipboard History Searching in debugging windows Time Travel Debugging Live Share Product Updates Summary 2 Building Desktop Applications for Windows Using WPF Technical requirements Understanding the WPF architecture An overview of XAML Building your first WPF application Exploring layouts in WPF The WPF property system Data binding in WPF Using converters while data binding Using triggers in WPF Summary 3 Accelerate Cloud Development with Microsoft Azure Understanding cloud computing basics Creating your free Azure account Configuring Visual Studio 2019 for Azure development Creating an Azure website from the portal Managing Azure websites (web apps) from the portal Creating an Azure website with Visual Studio 2019 Updating an existing Azure website with Visual Studio Building a mobile app Integrating the mobile app service in a Windows application Scaling an App Service plan Summary 4 Building Applications with .NET Core Technical requirements Overview of .NET Core Installing .NET Core with Visual Studio 2019 A quick lap around .NET Core commands Creating .NET Core applications using Visual Studio 2019 Publishing .NET Core applications using Visual Studio 2019 Creating, building, and publishing a .NET Core web app to Microsoft Azure Summary 5 Web Application Development Using TypeScript Technical requirements Setting up the development environment by installing TypeScript Building your first Hello TypeScript application Understanding the TypeScript configuration file Declaring variables in TypeScript Working with the basic datatypes Working with classes and interfaces Summary 6 Managing NuGet Packages Technical requirements Overview of NuGet Package Manager Creating a NuGet package library for .NET Framework Publishing a NuGet package to the NuGet store Managing your NuGet packages Summary 7 Debugging Applications with Visual Studio 2019 Technical requirements Overview of Visual Studio debugger tools Debugging C# source code using breakpoints Using DataTips while debugging Using the Immediate Window while debugging your code Using the Visual Studio Diagnostics Tools Summary 8 Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2019 Technical requirements Overview of Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2019 Configuring Visual Studio 2019 for Live Unit Testing Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2019 Navigating failed tests Summary 9 Exploring Source Controls in Visual Studio 2019 Technical requirements Installing Git for Visual Studio 2019 Connecting to the source control servers Getting started with Git repositories Working with Git branches Working with changes, staging, and commits Syncing changes between local and remote repositories Working with pull requests for a code review Working with the Git commit history Undoing your changes Tagging your commits Summary