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Master Visual Studio extensibility for an enhanced Visual Studio IDE experience. This book is a comprehensive guide that covers every facet of developing, debugging, and publishing extensions that amplify your productivity, tooling, and analysis within the Visual Studio IDE. This new edition is updated for Visual Studio 2022, which is the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio. Since the last edition, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by the storm. This revised edition demonstrates how AI can take your extensions to unparalleled heights using ChatGPT. The book begins with an introduction to the essential concepts of Visual Studio, including data structures and design patterns before diving into the fundamentals of the Visual Studio extensibility model. Here you will learn the anatomy of a VSIX and how extensions are discovered and loaded in Visual Studio. Next, you will explore the extensibility model and see how various extensions, such asmenus, commands, and tool windows can be plugged into Visual Studio. Moving forward, you'll cover developing VS extensions and how they can be made configurable by customizing the UI and options page, and you'll learn to develop a VS extension that leverages ChatGPT. Next, you will see how to extend the most often used component of Visual Studio, the code editor, before creating your own sample code snippets and templates. This is followed by a demonstration of how to deploy extensions using continuous integration (CI). Finally, you will learn tips and tricks for Visual Studio and its extensibility, along with a few highly valuable extensions. After reading Visual Studio Extensibility Development, you will be able to develop, debug, customize, and deploy extensions in Visual Studio IDE. What You Will Learn Master the art of personalizing extensions through the creation of dedicated tools option pagesExtend commands, editor, and tool window of Visual StudioSeamlessly integrate artificial intelligence in Visual Studio extensionsCreate project templates, item templates, and code snippets to streamline your development processEnhance IntelliSense for your custom project needsPublish your extension in the Visual Studio marketplace Who This Book Is For Developers, Programmers, Engineers, Architects, Instructors, Innovators, Students and Technology enthusiasts leveraging Visual Studio IDE.

Become a professional.NET developer by learning expert techniques for building enterprise-grade applicationsKey FeaturesExplore the advanced features of C# and.NET 5 to enhance your code and productivityFollow clear and easy instructions for building an end-to-end enterprise applicationLearn how to build scalable web applications and host them on the cloudBook Description.NET Core is one of the most popular programming platforms in the world for an increasingly large community of developers thanks to its excellent cross-platform support. This book will show you how to confidently use the features of.NET 5 with C# 9 to build robust enterprise applications. Throughout the book, you'll work on creating an enterprise app and adding a key component to the app with each chapter, before?nally getting it ready for testing and deployment. You'll learn concepts relating to advanced data structures, the Entity Framework Core, parallel programming, and dependency injection. As you progress, you'll cover various authentication and authorization schemes provided by.NET Core to make your apps and APIs secure. Next, you'll build web apps using ASP.NET Core 5 and deploy them on the cloud while working with various cloud components using Azure. The book then shows you how to use the latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and C# 9 to simplify developer tasks, and also explores tips and tricks in Visual Studio 2019 to improve your productivity. Later, you'll discover various testing techniques such as unit testing and performance testing as well as di?erent methods to deploy enterprise apps. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create enterprise apps using the powerful features of.NET 5 and deploy them on the cloud.What you will learnDesign enterprise apps by making the most of the latest features of.NET 5Discover di?erent layers of an app, such as the data layer, API layer, and web layerExplore end-to-end architecture, implement an enterprise web app using.NET and C# 9, and deploy the app on AzureFocus on the core concepts of web application development such as dependency injection, caching, logging, con?guration, and authentication, and implement them in.NET 5Integrate the new.NET 5 health and performance check APIs with your appUnderstand how.NET 5 works and contribute to the.NET 5 platformWho this book is forIf you are a developer, architect, or senior programmer who wants to leverage the features of.NET 5 and the C# language, as well as grasp essential techniques to build your skills, then this C#.NET 5 book is for you. Beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the.NET framework and C# programming is required to understand the concepts covered in this book more effectively.

Learn the extensibility model of Visual Studio to enhance the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). This book will cover every aspect, starting from developing an extension to publishing it and making it available to the end user. The book begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of Visual Studio including data structures and design patterns and moves forward with the fundamentals of the VS extensibility model. Here you will learn how to work on Roslyn - the.NET compiler platform - and load extensions in VS. Next, you will go through the extensibility model and see how various extensions, such as menus, commands, and tool windows, can be plugged into VS. Moving forward, you'll cover developing VS extensions and configuring them, along with demonstrations on customizing extension by developing option pages. Further, you will learn to create custom code snippets and use a debugger visualizer. Next, you will go through creation ofproject and item templates including deployment of VS extensions using continuous integration (CI). Finally, you will learn tips and tricks for Visual Studio and its extensibility and integration with Azure DevOps. After reading Visual Studio Extensibility Development you will be able to develop, deploy, and customize extensions in Visual Studio IDE. What You Will Learn Discover the Visual Studio extensibility and automation model Code Visual Studio extensions from scratchCustomize extensions by developing a tools option page for themCreate project templates, item templates, and code snippets. Work with code generation using T4 templatesCode analysis and refactoring using Roslyn analyzersCreate and deploy a private extension gallery and upload the extensions Upload a VS extension using CIShip your extension to Visual Studio MarketplaceWho This Book Is ForDevelopers in Visual Studio IDE covering C#, Visual Basic (VB), JavaScript, and CSS.

Build cross-platform solutions with.NET Core 2.0 through real-life scenariosKey Features[•] Bridges the gap between learning and doing and improves your software development skills[•] Covers the best practices of.NET development to improve your productivity[•] Example-based approach to get you started quickly with software programmingBook DescriptionWith the rise in the number of tools and technologies available today, developers and architects are always exploring ways to create better and smarter solutions. Before, the differences between target platforms was a major roadblock, but that's not the case now..NET Core 2.0 By Example will take you on an exciting journey to building better software. This book provides fresh and relevant content to.NET Core 2.0 in a succinct format that's enjoyable to read. It also delivers concepts, along with the implications, design decisions, and potential pitfalls you might face when targeting Linux and Windows systems, in a logical and simple way. With the.NET framework at its center, the book comprises of five varied projects: a multiplayer Tic-tac-toe game; a real-time chat application, Let'sChat; a chatbot; a microservice-based buying-selling application; and a movie booking application. You will start each chapter with a high-level overview of the content, followed by the above example applications described in detail. By the end of each chapter, you will not only be proficient with the concepts, but you'll also have created a tangible component in the application. By the end of the book, you will have built five solid projects using all the tools and support provided by the.NET Core 2.0 framework.What you will learn[•] Build cross-platform applications with ASP.NET Core 2.0 and its tools[•] Integrate, host, and deploy web apps with the cloud (Microsoft Azure)[•] Leverage the ncurses native library to extend console capabilities in.NET Core on Linux and interop with native coden.NET Core on Linux and learn how to interop with existing native code[•] Reuse existing.NET Framework and Mono assemblies from.NET Core 2.0 applications[•] Develop real-time web applications using ASP.NET Core[•] Learn the differences between SOA and microservices and get started with microservice development using ASP.NET Core 2.0[•] Walk through functional programming with F# and.NET Core from scratchWho this book is forIf you are a developer or architect and want to learn how to build cross-platform solutions using Microsoft.NET Core, this book is for you. It is assumed that you have some knowledge of the.NET Framework, OOP, and C# (or a similar programming language).