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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

Creating a Git repository

Creating a repository in GitHub from a Visual Studio project is very easy to do. In this section, you will have to test your knowledge by creating a new ASP.NET Core Empty project, as discussed in the Templates for .NET Core section of Chapter 4, Creating Projects and Templates, which you can name GitDemo.

To create the new repository in GitHub from the project you have created, just select the Git | Create Git Repository menu option and fill in the repository information, according to the data shown in Figure 11.5:

Figure 11.5 – Filling in the information for a new repository on GitHub

Figure 11.5 – Filling in the information for a new repository on GitHub

Let's briefly explain each option:

  • Local path: This sets the path on the local machine where the source code is hosted (usually the path where you created the project).
  • .gitignore template: This allows you to select a template that establishes a set of files that will not be uploaded to the repository – for example...