Visual Studio Condensed. Patrick Desjardins

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1 Visual Studio Condensed Patrick Desjardins

2 Visual Studio Condensed Copyright 2014 by Patrick Desjardins This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. ISBN-13 (pbk): ISBN-13 (electronic): Trademarked names, logos, and images may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, logo, or image we use the names, logos, and images only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. As of the publication date of Visual Studio Condensed, Patrick Desjardins has been an employee of Microsoft Corporation. The views expressed in this book are those of the author, Mr. Desjardins, and do not necessarily reflect those of Microsoft Corporation. Publisher: Heinz Weinheimer Lead Editor: Gwenan Spearing Technical Reviewer: Robert Swafford Developmental Editor: Anne Marie Walker Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Louise Corrigan, Jim DeWolf, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Robert Hutchinson, Michelle Lowman, James Markham, Matthew Moodie, Jeff Olson, Jeffrey Pepper, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Gwenan Spearing, Matt Wade, Steve Weiss Coordinating Editor: Christine Ricketts Copy Editor: James A. Compton Compositor: SPi Global Indexer: SPi Global Artist: SPi Global Cover Designer: Anna Ishchenko Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media New York, 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY Phone SPRINGER, fax (201) , orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, or visit Apress Media, LLC is a California LLC and the sole member (owner) is Springer Science + Business Media Finance Inc (SSBM Finance Inc). SSBM Finance Inc is a Delaware corporation. For information on translations, please rights@apress.com, or visit Apress and friends of ED books may be purchased in bulk for academic, corporate, or promotional use. ebook versions and licenses are also available for most titles. For more information, reference our Special Bulk Sales ebook Any source code or other supplementary material referenced by the author in this text is available to readers at For detailed information about how to locate your book s source code, go to

3 I dedicate this book to my wife, Mélodie Savaria, who has been patient during the time I took to write this book. I also dedicate this work to my parents, who opened the path to all my realizations, present and future.

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5 Contents at a Glance About the Author... xvii About the Technical Reviewer... xix Acknowledgments... xxi Introduction... xxiii Chapter 1: Introducing Visual Studio...1 Chapter 2: Configuring Visual Studio...25 Chapter 3: Development Tools...59 Chapter 4: Debugging...93 Chapter 5: Code Improvement Tools Chapter 6: Testing Your Applications Chapter 7: Teamwork with Visual Studio Chapter 8: Framework-Specific Features Chapter 9: Extending Visual Studio Index v

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7 Contents About the Author... xvii About the Technical Reviewer... xix Acknowledgments... xxi Introduction... xxiii Chapter 1: Introducing Visual Studio...1 Visual Studio Editions...1 Visual Studio Express Edition... 1 Visual Studio Professional Edition... 2 Visual Studio Premium Edition... 3 Visual Studio Ultimate Edition... 3 Visual Studio Online... 3 Guided Tour of the Visual Studio UI...4 The General UI... 5 The Start Page... 7 Pinning Panels Docking Panels Navigation Properties Command Window Immediate Window Error List The Object Browser Code vs. Debug View vii

8 Contents Smart Tag IntelliSense Code Snippet Find and Replace Summary...23 Chapter 2: Configuring Visual Studio...25 Customizing Menus and Toolbars...25 Menu Toolbars Visual Studio Options...29 Environment Projects and Solutions Source Control Text Editor Debugging IntelliTrace Configuration Performance Tools Database Tools HTML Designer Package Manager Import and Export Settings...51 Project Properties...52 Application/Library Build Build Events Debug/Web Resources Signing Code Analysis Summary...58 viii

9 Contents Chapter 3: Development Tools...59 The Editor Window...59 C# IntelliSense JavaScript IntelliSense CSS IntelliSense Code Lens Peek Definition Go To Features Razor The Database Panel Report Designer The WPF Editor Resource Files Navigability...76 Solution Explorer Class Navigation Navigating Methods in Solution Explorer Navigate To Quick Find and Find in Files Bookmark Search Solution Explorer The Pending Changes Filter The Enhanced Scrollbar Documentation...84 C# Visual Basic Razor XAML Visual C ix

10 Contents Deploying Your Code...86 Web Deploy One Click Web Deployment Click Once Win8 Application Deployment NuGet...90 Summary...92 Chapter 4: Debugging...93 Breakpoints...93 An Overview of Breakpoints Conditional Breakpoints, Breakpoint Filters, and Hit Counts Edit and Continue Attaching to a Process...97 Debugging Windows...97 The Output Window The Immediate Window The Watch Window The QuickWatch Window The Autos and Locals Windows The Breakpoints Window The Memory Window Advanced Debugging The Threads Window The Parallel Stacks Window The Modules Window The Process Window The Page Inspector Tracing Call Stack Code Map x

11 Contents IntelliTrace Tracepoint Memory Analysis with Profiling Summary Chapter 5: Code Improvement Tools Code Map Using Code Map for Methods Using Code Map for Libraries Finding Cloned Code How the Code Clone Analyzer Works Refining Results Limitations When to Use the Code Clone Analyzer Architecture Tools Editing UML and Validation Visualization Layer Diagrams Sequence Diagrams Class Diagrams Activity Diagrams Use Case Diagrams Component Diagrams Directed-Graph Diagrams Code Metrics Lines of Code Depth of Inheritance Class Coupling Cyclomatic Complexity Maintainability Index xi

12 Contents Static Code Analysis The Code Analysis Panel FxCop, StyleCop, and Code Analysis Summary Chapter 6: Testing Your Applications Unit Testing and Code Coverage Unit Testing Code Coverage Microsoft Fakes Load Testing and Web Performance Testing Load Testing Web Performance Testing Testing Windows Store Applications Coded UI Test Project Visual Studio Remote Debugging Visual Studio 2013 Windows Phone Emulator Microsoft Test Manager Exploratory Testing Lab Center Summary Chapter 7: Teamwork with Visual Studio How to Use TFS Source Control What Is a Branch? Merging Your Code Resolving Conflicts Change Tracking Checking In and Checking Out Code Viewing an Application s History xii

13 Contents Labeling a Check-In Annotating Code Shelving Your Code Code Review Managing Your Work with Work Items Work Item Types Querying Work Items Multiple Workspace Visual Studio Integration with Different Development Processes Life Cycle with Scrum Life Cycle with Agile Life Cycle with CMMI Managing Your Project with the Web Build Server Summary Chapter 8: Framework-Specific Features Web Frameworks The SharePoint Framework The Windows Forms (WinForms) Framework Changing WinForms Properties Laying Out a WinForm with Visual Studio Accessing Component Events with WinForms The WPF Framework The Visual Designer The WPF Properties Window Windows Store Applications What Is Microsoft Blend? Using JavaScript to Create Win 8 Apps xiii

14 Contents Visual Studio WCF Tools Configuring the WCF Service Testing a WCF Service Consuming a WCF Service The Workflow Foundation Framework Building a Flowchart Workflow Building a Sequential Workflow Building a State Machine Workflow Visual Studio LightSwitch Visual Studio TypeScript Summary Chapter 9: Extending Visual Studio Downloading and Exploring the Software Development Kit (SDK) What You Can Do with the SDK Installing VSPackages with Visual Studio VSIX Project Templates Uninstalling an Extension Visual Studio Shell Extensions T4 Templates Runtime T4 Templates Design-Time T4 Templates New Visual Studio 2013 Features for T4 Templates SideWaffle Extending Visual Studio with the SideWaffle Item Template Extending Visual Studio with the SideWaffle Project Template Browser Link Communication with Visual Studio Extending Visual Studio with Browser Link xiv

15 Contents Customizing Code Snippets Creating Your Own HTML Smart Tag Creating a Smart Tag for the Code Editor Using an MSIL Disassembler Using ildasm.exe Using ILSpy Obfuscation Techniques to Protect Your Code Summary Index xv

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17 About the Author Patrick Desjardins has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in ASP.NET since He has studied software engineering and is known for his analysis, resourcefulness, and ability to find effective solutions quickly. Since the early days of his professional career, his focus has been on keeping his knowledge up to date in order to provide quality service to meet his customers needs. His main area of interest is Web development, which he has embraced since the early 2000s, and he continues to train in new technologies on a daily basis. Patrick has been developing on.net professionally since He has also developed many projects in PHP, giving him a broad perspective on how to develop for the Web. Patrick is driven to help people embrace Microsoft technologies in the enterprise. He is a strong believer in ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework, which help to produce professional quality websites that follow good standards using HTML5, CSS3, and proven design patterns. xvii

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19 About the Technical Reviewer Rob Swafford is a senior developer at Sonoma Partners, LLC, specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and.net web application development. He has been developing in.net since the early days of the framework, and has been a Visual Studio user since Visual C His industry experience spans nearly a decade in a wide range of companies from small start-ups to state and local government, and multinational corporations. He currently resides in the greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin area with his wife Jeanna and two young sons. xix

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21 Acknowledgments Thank you to Simran Chaudhry, Microsoft Community Program Manager, for honoring me as Microsoft MVP in Also, a big thanks to Gwenan Spearing for giving me the opportunity to write this book with Apress. xxi

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23 Introduction Visual Studio is a broad subject, but this book covers it in a concise way. In order to give you enough information to use Visual Studio effortlessly, this book covers a little bit of everything. Some features covered are limited to specific editions of Visual Studio; in those cases, the book marks the edition required with a banner at the beginning of the section. To avoid repetition, however, all features that are limited to the Express edition are specified, as are Premium and Ultimate edition features. For features available in several editions, only the lowest required edition is specified. For example, if a description is applicable to Premium and Ultimate editions, we will mark that feature as Premium. This book does not cover Visual studio features for specific platforms or technologies in depth. Chapter 8 is dedicated to platform-specific Visual Studio features, but it discusses each one only briefly. Also, because the focus here is on the development environment itself, there are few examples of code, all of them written in C#. Even if you are a Visual Basic or C++ developer, this should not affect you because the focus is on Visual Studio. This book contains information about how to use Visual Studio by explaining all its visual aspects and possible configurations. Then, it demonstrates Visual Studio s capabilities for development and debugging. Several tools to improve your code are discussed, along with testing tools. You will learn about collaborative tools that Visual Studio offers with Team Foundation Server. Finally we take a peek at framework-specific features and how to extend Visual Studio. xxiii