Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Discovering Visual Studio 2013; Introduction; Synchronizing settings; Touring the VS2013 IDE; Project round-tripping; Managing the editor windows; Finding Visual Studio commands; Searching and navigating; Navigating in depth; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Windows Store Applications; Introduction; Getting a Windows Store app developer license; Creating a Windows Store app; Adding a Windows Store item template to your app; Using the Windows Store app simulator.
Defining capabilities and contractsAnalyzing your App's performance; Packaging your Windows Store app; Validating your Windows Store app; Chapter 3: Web Development
ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript; Introduction; Getting started with Bootstrap; Previewing changes across multiple browsers; Creating HTML5 web pages; Taking advantage of the CSS editor improvements; Understanding the JavaScript editor improvements; Adding bundling and minification to JavaScript and CSS files; Verifying pages with the Page Inspector tool; Chapter 4: .NET Framework 4.5.1 Development; Introduction.
Adding the Ribbon to a WPF applicationCreating a state machine in Visual Studio; Creating a task-based WCF service; Managing packages with NuGet; Unit testing .NET applications; Sharing class libraries across runtimes; Detecting duplicate code; Chapter 5: Debugging Your .NET Application; Introduction; Maximizing everyday debugging; Debugging on remote machines and tablets; Debugging code in production with IntelliTrace; Debugging parallel code; Visualizing concurrency; Chapter 6: Asynchrony in .NET; Introduction; Making your code asynchronous; Understanding asynchrony and the Windows Runtime.
Using asynchrony with web applicationsWorking with actors and the TPL Dataflow Library; Chapter 7: Unwrapping C++ Development; Introduction; Using XAML with C++; Unit testing C++ applications; Analyzing your C++ code; Using a custom rule set; Working with DirectX in Visual Studio 2013; Creating a shader using DGSL; Creating and displaying a 3D model; Using the Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics; Chapter 8: Working with Team Foundation Server 2013; Introduction; Creating a new TFS project; Managing your work; Using local workspaces for source control; Performing code reviews.
Getting feedback from your usersUsing Git for source control; Chapter 9: Languages; Introduction; Fortifying JavaScript applications with TypeScript; Integrating Python into Visual Studio; Integrating Python with .NET; Appendix: Visual Studio Medley; Introduction; Creating installer packages; Submitting apps to the Windows Store; Creating Visual Studio add-ins and extensions; Creating your own snippets; Index.
