Preface

The Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook has been written to provide you with an informative tour around Visual Studio 2013 (VS2013). Topics have been broken down into quick-to-access segments called recipes, allowing you to easily find the material that interests you.

Some recipes will directly apply to your regular tasks while others are intended to shed some light on overlooked corners of Visual Studio. Given its long pedigree, extensive functionality has been added over the years, which is easy to overlook. The goal is that by reading this book, you will become more proficient with the tool that you use most as a Windows developer.

This second edition has been revised and expanded to cover the new features of VS2013 so that regardless of whether you are upgrading from VS2012 or are making a bigger step from an earlier version, there will be helpful tips and discussion of this new version. For those of you who purchased the first edition, welcome back, and to our new readers thank you for joining us. Let's get started!