Basic Information And Overview Of Visual Studio 2017

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Find all references

We often use “Go To Definition” in Visual Studio to find the definition to class, methods, and keyword. The new feature is “Finding All Reference”.

If right option is clicked on any classes or methods and you go to “Find All References”; you can see everything related to the option clicked. If you move the cursor, you can see the preview also.

Breakpoint

Breakpoint has ben improved a lot in Visual Studio 2017. Normally, we go step by step but here, we can skip many lines, where moving to breakpoint directly specifies line, using “Run To Click”. We can see the screenshots.

After the click, we can see the execute seconds. If click executes second, we can see the productivity for executing those lines using diagnostic tools. We can see how it looks in the below screenshots.

Live Unit Testing

In Visual Studio 2017, an important feature is added - Live Unit Testing. We can create unit tests and test out the code live.

Go to Test >> Live Unit Testing >> Start. We can see screenshots below.

After clicking create unit test and ok, then one class file will open. A class file contains postfix “Tests”. For example, if we create unit testing for “Sample.cs” it means unit file will create “SampleTests.cs”. After opening the file, it immediately starts running background and starts the test.

Test Fail

Test Success

Visual Studio 2017 is used to develop Android, iOS, and Windows mobile applications. Using C#, JavaScript and C++ it can build the mobile apps. It has high code reuse and native capabilities. We can test developed mobile apps easily.

We can create a cross-platform mobile application to support Android, iOS and Windows using XMAL in Visual Studio 2017. It is one of the best features.

Faster

Visual Studio 2017 is very fast. It has a faster startup, faster solution load, and faster build, and less memory consumption. Visual Studio 2017 is four times faster than Visual Studio 2015.

We can install it in a faster way compared to previous Visual Studio versions. We can install it in a minimum of four minutes. It is a lightweight component.

We can see the system requirement for installing Visual Studio 2017 in the below screenshots.

Conclusion

This article explained basic information about Visual Studio 2017 and its features. It is very helpful to students and freshers. The next article will explain how to install Visual Studio 2017.