What this book covers

Chapter 1, A Guide to Debugging with Visual Studio, focuses on giving you a basic understanding of the different environments set up inside Visual Studio and deals with all the necessary tools present inside Visual Studio to help in debugging a source. This chapter clarifies the debugging procedures in detail, followed by quick and easy sample code to help find bugs.

Chapter 2, Enhancements to WCF 4.5, deals with the Service Oriented Architecture using WCF. This chapter gives you knowledge on common problems that a developer needs to know and provides you with sample recipes to deal with them. It also gives a clear understanding on all the new features that come along with new releases.

Chapter 3, Building a Touch-sensitive Device Application Using Windows Phone 8, provides a quick introduction on device application development with the Windows Phone environment. This chapter provides simple solutions to some of the common problems when developing a Windows Phone application.

Chapter 4, Working with Team Foundation Server, deals with the source control functionality using Visual Studio ALM. The chapter provides detailed, step-by-step recipes to deal with development issues using a Team Foundation Server with the configuration and easy implementation of a successful TFS.

Chapter 5, Testing Applications Using Visual Studio 2013, provides a deeper insight on testing a full-fledged application. This chapter provides all the relevant information that you need to know about testing inside Visual Studio, enabling you to write tests quickly in easy steps, and a clear understanding of what is going on under the hood.

Chapter 6, Extending the Visual Studio IDE, focuses on presenting interesting facts related to adding more functionalities in Visual Studio. The need to customize Visual Studio itself is sometimes necessary to allow a developer to customize the tools inside the integrated environment. This chapter provides you with points that will help in dealing with extensions on the Visual Studio IDE in easy steps.

Chapter 7, Understanding Cloud Computing with Windows Azure, demonstrates the Microsoft implementation of cloud computing, enabling you to quickly adapt Azure in your own solution in easy steps. This chapter gives recipes to help a developer port their existing on-premise applications to the cloud.