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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

Compiling web libraries with Web Compiler

If you are using TypeScript, LESS, or Sass in a project, you need to pre-compile the code to get the production version of your web project, so the browser can read every line of code. Note that the browser can only read CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Using Web Compiler in Visual Studio, you can do this easily and see the precompiled code directly.

Now that we know what Web Compiler is, let's install it and learn how to take advantage of this tool.

Installing Web Compiler

To install Web Compiler, go to Extensions | Manage extensions, and type web compiler in the search bar (see Figure 14.14):

Figure 14.14 – Searching for Web Compiler in Manage Extensions

Figure 14.14 – Searching for Web Compiler in Manage Extensions

We can now follow the same steps that we did in the Adding HTML Snippet Pack section to complete the installation. After closing and then opening Visual Studio, you will see that the installation of this new extension is completed. Now, we will...