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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 new theme as an extension

If you want to carry out an even more customized color configuration for your IDE, it is possible to do so, thanks to the extension called Visual Studio Color Theme Designer. You can search and download this extension within Visual Studio Marketplace, as we saw in the Reviewing Visual Studio Marketplace section.

Once you have installed the extension, you will need to start Visual Studio and select the Create a new project option, as shown here:

Figure 13.13 – Creating a new project

In the window that is opened, you must select the project from the list called VSTheme Project, which has been installed, thanks to the previously added extension. If you do not find it at first glance, you can search for it in the search box at the top, as shown in Figure 13.14:

Figure 13.14 – Searching for the VSTheme project

In the new project configuration window, as shown in Figure 13.15, you...