Book: Visual Studio 2013 and .Net 4.5 Expert Cookbook

Let’s start with a very short story. Oh ! It’s about you. You bought a latest mobile phone from the market that you haven’t used earlier. Excited to use it. Did some phone calls and text messages. What’s so exciting about it? After all, every mobile phone is supposed to provide those basic functionality. What else? How to learn other features? Yes, you need a guide or references or help manual.

Earlier this month, I got installed Visual Studio 2013 in my laptop and found this particular book to be my true guide in application development and learning new features introduced with Visual Studio 2013 & .Net framework 4.5. It has uncovered many exciting and time saving new features of VS 2013.

News: You can download Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition for free [from here]

The book is authored by Abhishek Sur, a Microsoft MVP since last 4 years who is also a renowned public speaker and also the author of book Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 expert Development Cookbook. You can purchase the book from Packtpub or Amazon.in . You can even view few pages for free [here] .

If you want to be more productive and upgraded to the changes in .Net 4.5 & VS 2013 then this is just that perfect book you are looking for.

 

With the first chapter the book teaches, how to debug better with your new IDE. You’ll find a great in-depth analysis of each features. Debugging is a very essential part of Application Development and one can definitely use these tips to sharpen their debugging skill.
For Example, I was unknown about
“The debugger stores the information of the line number and source code file inside the DB file (known as the program database)”

Second chapter is about the Enhancements to WCF. It also teaches to write RESTful services with WCF with few simple and excellent examples. There is a separate chapter on developing Windows Phone 8 apps . Again there is also a separate chapter on “Extending the Visual Studio IDE” which teaches procedure to extend the IDE by applying your changes. From other chapters, you can learn about TFS enhancements, Testing using VS2013, Windows Azure with in-depth analysis and suitable examples.

It was a very good learning experience for me and if you are a passionate .Net developer who loves to learn more then my recommendation is to get it quickly.

Thanks !