Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook电子书

Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook

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Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook

Credits

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About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. A Guide to Debugging with Visual Studio

Introduction

Debugging source code using breakpoints

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Changing the execution step while debugging

Labeling a breakpoint

Adding a condition in breakpoints

Exporting breakpoints

Breakpoint hit counters

Adding tracepoints while debugging

Filtering breakpoints

Using DataTips during debugging

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Importing/Exporting DataTips

Clearing DataTips

Working with debugger visualizers

Inspecting different Watch windows

Autos

Locals

Watch windows

Creating an object ID

Working with the Error List window

Debugging a multithreaded program

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

How to Flag Just My Code

Debugging parallel programs

What are PDB files and what do they contain?

See also

Exploring the Command and Immediate windows

How to do it...

How it works…

There's more…

The differences between the Command and Immediate windows

See also…

Making use of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Saving an IntelliTrace file

Reducing the size of trace files

Working with Debugger Canvas

Debugging a .NET program using the framework library source

How to do it…

How it works…

Debugging a process that is already deployed

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Calling a debugger using code

2. Enhancements to WCF 4.5

Introduction

Understanding Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) by creating a basic application

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Understanding IMetadataExchange endpoint and adding it to the application

Using DataContract in a service

Using the svcutil tool to generate proxy classes

See also

Hosting a WCF service in different hosting environments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

What is Windows Process Activation Services (WAS)?

See also

Streaming data over a network using a WCF service

How to do it...

How it works...

Writing a REST-based WCF service

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Working with WebSockets in WCF

See also

Creating a WCF service using the Open Data Protocol standards

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Consuming OData services

Securing the OData application behind a valid authentication

Consuming the OData service

See also

Extending a WCF service (service extensibility)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

3. Building a Touch-sensitive Device Application Using Windows Phone 8

Introduction

Building your first Windows Phone 8 application following the MVVM pattern

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using ApplicationBar on the app

Tombstoning

Working with Launchers and Choosers in Windows Phone

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding Windows Phone toolkit to the solution

Creating alarms and reminders

Working with the calendar in Windows Phone

See also

Working with relational databases and persistent storage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Encrypting data before storing it in the filesystem

Working with the settings file in Windows Phone applications

Reading a file from an SD card in the Windows Phone application

See also

Working with notifications in Windows Phone

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Learning about other tile formats

See also

4. Working with Team Foundation Server

Introduction

Installing TFS

Configuring TFS for project hosting and management

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

How to add a work item to the TFS

How to add an e-mail notification to the TFS

Configuring Agile iterations to a TFS project

Working with branching and merging in Team Foundation Server

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Inspecting a visualizer to check TFS branching

Branch visualization

Changeset visualization

See also

Creating TFS-scheduled jobs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

See also

5. Testing Applications Using Visual Studio 2013

Introduction

Understanding Visual Studio unit test projects

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Testing private types and members

Using code coverage results

Dealing with test-driven development in Visual Studio

See also

Working with the Microsoft Fakes framework in Visual Studio

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Understanding how Coded UI testing works in Visual Studio

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

How to drive a test using predefined data

How to analyze UI tests

See also

6. Extending the Visual Studio IDE

Introduction

Working with T4 templates in Visual Studio

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating multiple output files using T4 templates

Optimizing code generation using T4 templates and its easy syntaxes

See also

Working with Managed Extensibility Framework to write editor extensions

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a SmartTag extender using MEF

Creating Visual Studio Package for tool windows and editor menus

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

7. Understanding Cloud Computing with Windows Azure

Introduction

Working with various storage options in Windows Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Combining Blobs and Queues for Big Data sequential processing

Choosing the best Azure Storage based on the type of use

See also

Creating, updating, and deploying a cloud service in Windows Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using DataMarkets for your applications

Working with SQL Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Running transactional queries from the portal

See also

Working with HDInsight (Hadoop) for Big Data processing

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Working with Mobile Services in Windows Azure

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Calling a custom API from Mobile Services

Uploading big files to Mobile Services

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