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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

Creating custom shortcuts

We can create our own shortcuts for specific actions in Visual Studio, and there are several options available to customize the current shortcuts.

You can navigate to Tools | Options | Environment | Keyboard to see all the current shortcuts in Visual Studio (as shown in Figure 15.1):

Figure 15.1 – The Keyboard option to customize shortcuts

You will find all the current shortcuts in Visual Studio for all the functionalities and a scheme for the shortcuts, where you can set them up, depending on the context. By default, Visual Studio includes different keyboard schemes with different keyboard shortcut configurations. (see Figure 15.2):

Figure 15.2 – Mapping schemes for shortcuts

To create a new shortcut, select (Default) in the Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme option, and then select the Analyze.RunDefaultCodeCleanUpOnSolution command. This command executes a process to...