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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

Reviewing Visual Studio Marketplace

Visual Studio Marketplace is the online place to find and install extensions for Visual Studio 2022. In this marketplace, you can also find extensions for other products of the Visual Studio family, such as Visual Studio Code and Azure DevOps. You can access the marketplace through the site: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vs.

Once you enter the portal, you will have a very different user interface to the extensions tool, but the core operation is the same. In the main portal, you will be able to see the different extensions sorted by Featured, Trending, Most Popular, and Highest Rated.

To test the marketplace, let’s search for the term icons and see the list of results. Although the list currently yields 49 results, not all extensions are compatible with the most modern version of Visual Studio. Therefore, it is recommended to apply the filter for Visual Studio 2022, as shown in Figure 13.8:

Figure 13.8 &...