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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

Getting started with Git settings

Starting to work with Git tools is very easy in Visual Studio 2022, since they are included as part of the installation itself, so you can install Visual Studio and start working on your projects as soon as possible.

To access the management of code projects hosted on GitHub, you must first sign in with a Microsoft account, as explained in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022. Once logged in, click on the account profile icon and select the Account settings… option, as shown here:

Figure 11.1 – Accessing the account settings

This will open an account customization window, where we can add a GitHub account via the +Add button, as shown here:

Figure 11.2 – The button to add a GitHub account

Once we press the button, we will be redirected to the GitHub authentication portal, where we can log in with an existing GitHub account or create an account if we don't have...