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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

Cleaning up code with CodeMaid

CodeMaid is an amazing extension that helps us to simplify and clean up code. It is free and compatible with C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, R, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

You can read more information about CodeMaid on the official website: https://www.codemaid.net/.

Let's install CodeMaid and see how we can use it.

Installing CodeMaid in Visual Studio 2022

To install CodeMaid, navigate to Extensions | Manage Extensions, type codemaid in the search bar, and then select CodeMaid VS2022 (see Figure 14.7):

Figure 14.7 – Installing CodeMaid from the Manage Extensions tool

After searching codemaid, click Download and get the extension. We will get a message confirming that the next time we open Visual Studio, the extension will be installed. Close and open Visual Studio with SPAProject again. You can click on Modify and then wait for the installation to complete...