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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

Setting up extensions

Unfortunately, there is no standardized way to configure a Visual Studio extension, as each extension is unique and serves specific purposes. What is true is that most extensions will add configuration options for the extension, either through a special window, or from the configuration options.

The best way to know these configuration options is through the extension page itself. For example, in the case of the Visual Studio Iconizer extension, which we installed in the Reviewing Visual Studio Marketplace section, the initial behavior is to show only the icons on the tabs. The extension page tells us that this behavior can be changed to show the text of the tab next to the icon added by the extension. This can be done through the option that has been added through the Tools | Options | Environment | Iconizer menu, as shown in Figure 13.12:

Figure 13.12 – The Iconizer extension options

Most extensions create a section, as shown...