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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

The most common shortcuts for use in the IDE

Knowing how to get around in the Visual Studio IDE through keyboard shortcuts is an important part of avoiding wasting time searching through menus to activate a specific panel. It is very common, for example, to close by mistake the Solution Explorer or Properties window and not know which menu contains the option to open them again. That is why, in this section, we will examine the shortcuts that will speed up the performance of these tasks:

  • Ctrl + [ + S: If we have a file open, this shortcut allows us to quickly select it in the Solution Explorer window.
  • Ctrl + Alt + L: Opens the Solution Explorer window.
  • Ctrl + Alt + O: Opens the Output window.
  • Ctrl + \, E: Opens the Error List window.
  • Ctrl + \, Ctrl + M: Opens the Team Explorer window.
  • Ctrl + Alt + B: Opens the Breakpoints window.
  • F4: Opens the Properties window.
  • Alt + F6: Allows you to scroll back between windows on the panels that are open.
  • ...