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Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

By : Paul Schroeder, Aaron Cure
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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

<Header>
    <Title>API Method Timer</Title>
    <Shortcut>apitimer</Shortcut>
    <Description>Leverages System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch to log how long it took to execute a method.</Description>
</Header>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<LanguageTag>C#</LanguageTag>
<PlatformTag>windows</PlatformTag>
<ProjectTypeTag>console</ProjectTypeTag>
<ProjectTypeTag>desktop</ProjectTypeTag> 
<ProjectTypeTag>TipTrick</ProjectTypeTag>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "To see the installed keyboard mapping schemes in Visual Studio 2019 for Windows, navigate to the Tools Menu | Options | Environment | Keyboard dialog."

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