Visual Studio 2017 Essentials and Beyond
By Kate Gregory
Course info
Course info
Description
Visual Studio 2017 is an integrated development environment you can use to create applications and libraries with many different frameworks and languages. It has a rich feature set, including an intelligent editor, built in compiler, and context sensitive help. In this course, Visual Studio 2017 Essentials and Beyond, you'll be introduced to Visual Studio 2017 and its features to be utilized in practice. First, you'll begin by learning basic concepts like projects and solutions, how to make Visual Studio look and work the way you want it to, and demonstrate how to use the most popular tool windows and dialogs. Next, you'll explore tips and shortcuts that will save you time every day. Using Visual Studio efficiently is more than just writing code or reading code written by others. To be truly productive, you need to debug efficiently, and understand the designers that help you build your user interface. Finally, you'll delve into how to add helpful extensions that make Visual Studio even better. When you're finished with this course, you'll know how to use the tool itself and can focus on a specific language or framework as your next step.
About the author
Kate Gregory is in her fourth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Current work makes heavy use of .NET and Visual C++ for both web and client development, especially for Windows 7 and 8. Managing, mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking occupy much of her time, but she still writes code every week.