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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)
1
Section 1: Visual Studio IDE Productivity Essentials
9
Section 2: Customizing Project Templates and Beyond
13
Section 3: Leveraging Extensions for the Win

Roslyn analyzers

With the advent of the Roslyn compiler, Microsoft has exposed a way for us to write our own custom rules (called analyzers) and have them executed by the compiler. We can now write rules that run as we type and show up in the IDE, just as with the built-in functionality such as undeclared variables, and we can even add code fixes for them!

To develop Roslyn rules in Visual Studio 2019 for Windows, we need the .NET Compiler Platform SDK functionality. This can be installed using the Visual Studio Installer by selecting it from the Individual components tab, under the Compilers, build tools, and runtimes category. You can easily get to the installer by selecting Tools | Get Tools and Features in Visual Studio. The following screenshot shows the .NET Compiler Platform SDK functionality:

Figure 11.9 – .NET Compiler Platform SDK

Roslyn in Visual Studio 2019 for Windows

This functionality was broken in Visual Studio 2019 for Windows...