About Visual Studio tool

In this blog let us discuss about the visual studio with some simple examples for windows store applications.

Visual studio is a IDE which is used to build, create and deploy different kinds of applications like windows forms, WPF, ASP.net web forms, Console applications and many more. This visual studio tool is developed by Microsoft which supports different languages. Most of the developers use some of the languages to develop applications. Some of them are Visual C#, VB.net, F#, ASP.net managed C++ etc. We use dot net framework from the earlier 2.0 stable version to the current 4.5 version particularly in Visual studio 2013.  

Tools required to develop applications using Visual studio 2013 are

• Windows 8.1(This operating system is necessary to develop particularly windows store and windows phone applications)
• Visual studio 2013 Community edition/academy edition tool (We can also include Blend and Phone emulators during installation)

After installation start new project and rename it. We can also browse our desired location to save our project files

In this above diagram we can see how to add a new project. We should particularly select the language before you select the type of application. After selecting the language we should select the type of application to be developed. We can see many templates in the dialog box. These templates are used to develop the applications similarly but it only differs in theme. We can also change the name of our application. We can change the directory of our project files by clicking on browse button.

In Solution explorer we can see the files with respect to our project.

Our main page, code behind file, App.xaml.cs, Assets, and we can also see package.appmanifest files in our solution explorer.

In this App.xaml.cs page is already predefined with some code by developer. It is the code behind file for App. Xaml page. Every application consist of one xaml page and one .cs page where we can include all functionalities of the app. These both files together makes a complete module of one page. It also contains a constructor that calls InitializeComponents() method.  No need of declaring this initialize component, we can find it in every page.

In Mainpage.xaml we can design our user interface of our app. The tools from the toolbox also can be added directly to our UI. We can also add these tools in xaml code. Mainpage.xaml.cs is the file that contains the functionalities and attribute values where we can add event handlers and we can implement methods.