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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

Chapter 2: Configuring the IDE

In general, it is common for software developers to have different tastes in writing code. This also applies in the configuration part of the tool you use to develop, such as whether you want to change the general color of the IDE or prefer to change the default font to one that suits you better.

In this chapter, you will learn about the different configuration options in Visual Studio, which can certainly help you improve your productivity by having the exact elements you need, both in terms of colors and the location of windows that you frequently use.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to modify the IDE color scheme, configure dockable windows, and customize fonts.

You will learn about the following topics:

  • Synchronizing accounts and settings
  • Configuring the color scheme
  • Customizing fonts
  • Customizing the menu and toolbars
  • Customizing panels