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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

Shortcuts for use in source code

Working with source code involves working with thousands of lines of code, which can be a headache for even the most experienced developer. That is why the powerful search tools included in Visual Studio are an excellent way to search and navigate throughout the lines of code.

Similarly, code editing and refactoring tasks are ongoing in projects, not to mention debugging and testing in large projects.

This is why working with shortcuts that give you instant access to these tools should be a priority in your career as a developer. Let's see what these keyboard shortcuts are.

Shortcuts for searching and navigating through source code

Finding members of a class quickly may seem like a simple task when working on a one-class project, but you may not think so if you work with projects that contain hundreds of classes or even several projects within the same solution. It is during these moments that the following keyboard shortcuts become...