Kunal Chowdhury - Mastering Visual Studio 2019: Become proficient in .NET Framework and .NET Core by using advanced coding techniques in Visual Studio

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Kunal Chowdhury is an author, a passionate blogger, and a software engineer by profession. He was a Microsoft MVP from 2010 to 2018. Over the years, he has acquired profound knowledge of various Microsoft products and services, and has helped developers and consumers throughout the world.

As a tech buff, Kunal has in-depth knowledge of C#, XAML, .NET, WPF, Visual Studio, Windows 10, and Azure. He has written many articles on his technical blog (www.kunal-chowdhury.com) for developers and consumers. You can contact him on Twitter (@kunal2383) and become one of his fans.

He has also authored the books Mastering Visual Studio 2017 and Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, both available from Packt Publishing.

Atul Verma is currently a senior consultant with Microsoft and is a graduate from NIT Hamirpur. He has more than 13 years' experience of working on Microsoft technologies and open source software. He has expertise in development of polyglot solutions including Azure, mobile apps, desktop apps, ASP.NET Core, Azure DevOps, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes across domains including property automation, data visualization, and law enforcement.

His recent technical certifications include Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate, MCSD: App Builder and MCSA: Universal Windows Platform. He also contributes to technical communities, blogs, and GitHub repositories.

JaliyaUdagedara is a software engineer originally from Sri Lanka, and is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a Microsoft MVP and a technology evangelist, mostly working in the Microsoft technology stack. He has found his most significant interest in the world of .NET/.NET Core/ASP.NET/ASP.NET Core and Azure. He has more than 10 years' experience in software development.

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Day by day, a revolution is happening in the computer world; existing technologies are becoming older and obsolete, making way for newer ones. To learn about and work with modern technologies, you will need an updated IDE. Microsoft provides this with what is the most popular IDE among developers , named Visual Studio.

Microsoft released Visual Studio for developers in the year 1997. In the 2002, it first received a flavor of .NET and then it started to be revolutionized, with many new features added to every major version. In Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft added support for .NET Core, which is a cross-platform, free, and open source managed software framework, such as .NET Framework.

Visual Studio 2017, initially known as Visual Studio 15, was released on March 7, 2017. It featured a new installation experience, with which you could install a specific workload or a component that you need to accomplish your work. Apart from this, it also included features such as .NET Core, and support for NGen, EditorConfig, Docker, and Xamarin. It not only had support for Microsoft platforms but also supports Linux app development, C/C++, Cordova, Python, Node.js, and tooling for data science and analytical applications.

Microsoft has now improved Visual Studio 2017, releasing a new version of the IDE, named Visual Studio 2019, which was released on April 2, 2019. With this release, Microsoft improved the IDE and tools needed to build and test applications and games to make Visual Studio enterprise-grade. With new features such as IntelliCode and Live Share, it's now easy to build applications quickly and collaborate easily with team members.