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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

Publishing in a folder

One of the most common options for publishing a project is to use our filesystem and save the site in a folder, including all the resources to use it in a local server, such as IIS, Apache, or NGINX. Visual Studio has an option to publish our projects with this approach easily.

You can use any option to navigate to the publishing functionality, which we reviewed in the The options to publish a project section, and then select Folder, followed by a click on Next:

Figure 10.4 – The Folder option to publish a project

In the next window, we can specify the folder where we want to save the published project using the Browse… option. We can use absolute and relative paths. Then, we can finish the configuration by clicking on Finish:

Figure 10.5 – The folder location to publish the project

Important Note

The folder selected must be empty. If you select a folder that contains files, this could...