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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

Cloning a Git repository

It may be the case that you want to clone an existing repository and not start from scratch because you need to work in a team, or simply while browsing the GitHub site, you came across a repository that caught your attention.

The easiest way to clone a repository is from the initial window of Visual Studio, which can be reached by either starting a new instance of Visual Studio, closing an open project, or from the File | Start Window menu. In this window, the first option is the Clone a repository button:

Figure 11.7 – The Clone a repository option from the startup window

Once we press this button, a new window (shown in Figure 11.8) will open, asking us to indicate the URL of the remote repository and the local path where the source code files will be stored:

Figure 11.8 – The window for cloning a repository

For the purposes of this demonstration, we will use the URL of the repository created...