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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

Visual Studio has a marketplace with many extensions that we can access using the Visual Studio Manage Extensions option. We can find many extensions related to code snippets in the Studio Marketplace and use HTML Snippet Pack to improve our productivity while coding in HTML files.

You now know how to use CodeMaid to clean up code and improve code quality in your projects. You can easily remove empty lines and white spaces and create a custom validation format for all the files in your project. You also learned how to install Web Compiler to compile and transform web files such as JavaScript files or libraries such as LESS and Sass into generic code that a browser can easily read. Finally, you explored the Indent Guides extension, which shows us white and blank spaces in code to identify how to improve the format and structure of files.

In Chapter 15, Learning Keyboard Shortcuts, you will review the most important shortcuts included in Visual Studio by default. With this...