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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

Identifying white spaces with Indent Guides

In Chapter 13, Extensions in Visual Studio, we reviewed some extensions in Visual Studio, including Color Preview. With these extensions, we learned how the text editor in Visual Studio can be extended to improve our experience and provide more tools for some technologies and scenarios. Indent Guides is another example of this type of extension that extends the text editor in Visual Studio.

Indent Guides is a simple but useful extension that helps us identify extra white spaces and indentations in the structure of code.

Installing Indent Guides

To install Indent Guides, go to Extensions | Manage Extensions and type Indent Guides in the search bar (see Figure 14.17):

Figure 14.17 – Indent Guides in Manage Extensions

Click on Download to get this extension and then close and open Visual Studio to install it. At this point, follow the steps from the Adding HTML Snippet Pack section to complete the installation...