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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen that extensions are a way in which we can extend the functionality of Visual Studio, always with the aim of improving our user experience and optimizing development time. We have tested a few extensions that have completely changed some of the IDE’s functionality, such as previewing colors in css files, changing tabs to icons, and creating themes for distribution.

Also, we have reviewed how to search for and install extensions, both from the extensions tool and Visual Studio Marketplace. We analyzed how extensions are regularly configured, and finally, we created a new custom theme that can be shared with others, thanks to the use of an extension.

In Chapter 14, Using Popular Extensions, we will delve even deeper into the topic of extensions, analyzing which ones are the most popular because of their usefulness in web development.