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Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

By : Paul Schroeder, Aaron Cure
Book Image

Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

By: Paul Schroeder, Aaron Cure

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2019 (VS 2019) and Visual Studio Code (VS Code) are powerful professional development tools that help you to develop applications for any platform with ease. Whether you want to create web, mobile, or desktop applications, Microsoft Visual Studio is your one-stop solution. This book demonstrates some of the most sophisticated capabilities of the tooling and shows you how to use the integrated development environment (IDE) more efficiently to be more productive. You’ll begin by gradually building on concepts, starting with the basics. The introductory chapters cover shortcuts, snippets, and numerous optimization tricks, along with debugging techniques, source control integration, and other important IDE features that will help you make your time more productive. With that groundwork in place, more advanced concepts such as the inner workings of project and item templates are covered. You will also learn how to write quality, secure code more efficiently as well as discover how certain Visual Studio features work 'under the hood'. By the end of this Visual Studio book, you’ll have learned how to write more secure code faster than ever using your knowledge of the extensions and processes that make developing successful solutions more enjoyable and repeatable.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Visual Studio IDE Productivity Essentials
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Section 2: Customizing Project Templates and Beyond
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Section 3: Leveraging Extensions for the Win

Technical requirements

The code examples in this chapter have been tested with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8.2 and the full .NET Framework version 4.7.2. Also, to follow along, make sure to clone the repository for this book. The code for this chapter is available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Visual-Studio-2019-Tricks-and-Techniques/.

Please check the following link for CiA videos: http://bit.ly/3oxE5QM.

Warning

Please read the following if you receive an error while cloning the repository. Starting in Git 2.28, git init will look to the value of init.defaultBranch when creating the first branch in a new repository. If that value is unset, init.defaultBranch defaults to master. Because this repository uses main as its default branch, you may have to run the following code from Command Prompt or Git Bash to avoid an error:

$ git config --global init.defaultBranch main

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