Visual Studio 2013 is a huge technological leap forward. The book Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook helps to get on track with latest features including enhanced support for JavaScript and C++.

Software projects often combine many different technologies like C++, .NET or JavaScript. Professional developer must be aware of all these technologies. The book is a great source of essential information which helps developer to grasp important concepts implemented in Visual Studio.

Cookbook provides short and easy to understand chapters about wide range of features. Each chapter contains some links to web sites or related technologies.

I recommend to read the book one chapter a day. Learn new stuff, experiment with it and next day continue with next chapter.

What you can find inside the book? Here is selection of some interesting topics

Chapter 1: Discovering Visual Studio 2013

• contains productive tips how to use Visual Studio in effective way (keyboard shortcuts, navigation in project)

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Windows Store Application

• good starting point for building own application for Windows Store
• introduction to analysiss of application performance

Chapter 3: Web development

• learn how to work with Bootstrap
• minification of JavaScript and CSS

Chapter 4: .NET 4.5.1 Development

• unit testing of .Net apps
• managing packages with NuGet

Chapter 5: Debugging .NET Application

• debugging with IntelliTrace
• debugging parallel code

Chapter 6: Asynchrony in .NET

• introduction to popular way of programming applications
• integration of async concepts with web applications

Chapter 7: Unwrapping C++ Development

• C++ is still very popular and Visual Studio 2013 introduces several concepts known in .NET or JavaScript
• Native Unit Test Project for C++
• graphics programming – 3D, DGSL and diagnostics

Chapter 8: Working with Team Foundation Server

• getting feedback from users
• git integration

Chapter 9: Languages

• highly improved integration with further languages like TypeScript or Python
• Python support is simply awesome

Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook is available at Packt Publishing store.