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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

Searching for and installing extensions

The extensions tool, which is shown in Figure 13.3, has a search box located at the top right, where we can enter a search term to find extensions referring to some technology or tool. It is important to note that the search will be performed in the selected category, which we discussed in the Working with the extensions tools section.

If you want to perform a search among all the extensions, the best thing to do is to go to the Online category and perform the search. In our example, let’s search for extensions related to the keyword javascript:

Figure 13.3 – A list of results in the extensions tool

The order of the list of extensions will appear according to the drop-down item at the top, which by default appears as sorting by Relevance, but we can also select other options, such as displaying by Most Downloads, Most Recent, Trending, or Highest Rating.

Let’s do another test, this time to...