CAIRO BOOKS's Description
A must-have guide that covers all the new features of Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio allows you to create and manage programming projects for the
Windows platform, and the new 2010 version has undergone a major overhaul
comprised of significant changes. Written by an author team of veteran
programmers and developers, Professional Visual Studio 2010 gets you quickly up
to speed on what you can expect from the newest version of Visual Studio.
This book's first section is dedicated to familiarizing you with the core
aspects of Visual Studio 2010. Everything you need is contained in the first
five chapters, from the IDE structure and layout to the various options and
settings you can change to make the user interface synchronize with your own
way of doing things.
From there, the remainder of the book is broken into 11 parts: Getting
Started: In this part, you learn how to take control of your projects and
organize them in ways that work with your own style. Digging Deeper: Though the
many graphical components of Visual Studio that make a programmer's job easier
are discussed in many places throughout this book, you often need help when
you're in the process of actually writing code. This part deals with features
that support the coding of applications such as IntelliSense, code refactoring,
and creating and running unit tests In the latest version of the .NET
framework, enhancements were added to support dynamic languages and move
towards feature parity between the two primary .NET languages, C# and VB. This
part covers changes to these languages, as well as looking at a range of
features that will help you write better and more consistent code. Rich Client
and Web Applications: For support building everything from Office add-ins to
cloud applications, Visual Studio enables you to develop applications for a
wide range of platforms. These two parts cover the application platforms that
are supported within Visual Studio 2010, including ASP.NET and Office, WPF,
Silverlight 2 and ASP.NET MVC. Data: A large proportion of applications use
some form of data storage. Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework include
strong support for working with databases and other data sources. This part
examines how to use DataSets, the Visual Database Tools, LINQ, Synchronization
Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework to build applications that work with
data. It also shows you how you can then present this data using Reporting.
Application Services: Through the course of building an application you are
likely to require access to services that may or may not reside within your
organization. This part covers core technologies such as WCF, WF,
Synchronization Services and WCF RIA services that you can use to connect to
these services. Configuration and Internationalization: The built-in support
for configuration files allows you to adjust the way an application functions
on the fly without having to rebuild it. Furthermore, resource files can be
used to both access static data and easily localize an application into foreign
languages and cultures. This part of the book shows how to use .NET
configuration and resource files. Debugging: Application debugging is one of
the more challenging tasks developers have to tackle, but correct use of the
Visual Studio 2010 debugging features will help you analyze the state of the
application and determine the cause of any bugs. This part examines the rich
debugging support provided by the IDE. Build and Deployment: In addition to
discussing how to build your solutions effectively and getting applications
into the hands of your end users, this part also deals with the process of
upgrading your projects from previous versions. Customizing and Extending
Visual Studio: If the functionality found in the previous part isn't enough to
help you in your coding efforts, Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2010 even
more extensible. This part covers the automation model, how to write add-ins
and macros, and then how to use a new extensibility framework, MEF, to extend
Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio Ultimate: The final part of the book examines
the additional features only available in the Premium and Ultimate versions of
Visual Studio 2010. In addition, you'll also learn how the Team Foundation
Server provides an essential tool for managing software projects.
Though this breakdown of the Visual Studio feature set provides the most
logical and easily understood set of topics, you may need to look for specific
functions that will aid you in a particular activity. To address this need,
references to appropriate chapters are provided whenever a feature is covered
in more detail elsewhere in the book.
Professional Visual Studio 2010 is for all developers new to Visual Studio as
well as those programmers who have some experience but want to learn about
features they may have previously overlooked.
If you are familiar with the way previous versions of Visual Studio worked,
you may want to skim over Part I, which deals with the basic constructs that
make up the user interface, and move on to the remainder of the book where the
new features found in Visual Studio 2010 are discussed in detail. While you may
be familiar with most of Part I, it is worth reading this section in case there
are features of Visual Studio 2010 that you haven't seen or used before.
If you're just starting out, you'll greatly benefit from the first part, where
basic concepts are explained and you're introduced to the user interface and
how to customize it to suit your own style.