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Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

By : Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia, Hector Uriel Perez Rojas
Book Image

Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

By: Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia, Hector Uriel Perez Rojas

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2022 is the complete and ideal integrated development environment (IDE) for creating large, complex, and scalable applications. It is one of the most complete tools available for development, especially with Microsoft technologies. This book will teach you how to take advantage of the tools available with this IDE to write clean code faster. You’ll begin by learning how to set up and start Visual Studio 2022 and how to use all the tools provided by this IDE. You will then explore key combinations, tips, and additional utilities that can help you to code faster and review your code constantly. Next, you will see how to compile, debug, and inspect your project to analyze its current behavior using Visual Studio. The book also shows you how to insert reusable blocks of code writing simple statements. Later, you will learn about visual aids and artificial intelligence that will help you improve productivity and understand what is going on in the project. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up your development environment using Visual Studio 2022, personalize the tools and layout, and use shortcuts and extensions to improve your productivity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Visual Studio Overview
7
Part 2: Tools and Productivity
13
Part 3: GitHub Integration and Extensions

Using scaffolding

Scaffolding is one of the most beneficial features for developers in Visual Studio. By using scaffolding, we can save time generating code automatically by just clicking on some options.

It's indispensable to clarify that scaffolding is a popular concept in software development, and this is not unique to Visual Studio. Normally, scaffolding is associated with the code generation of model view controller (MVC) components. MVC is a popular pattern for creating web applications. Using MVC, you must distribute the responsibilities for creating web applications into three different components:

  • Model: Responsible for saving the data
  • View: The interface that interacts with the user
  • Controller: In charge of handling all the actions performed by the user in the view

To use scaffolding in Visual Studio, you can select the folder in the solution explorer and right-click it to open the options to select New Scaffolded Item… (see Figure 8...