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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

Synchronizing accounts and settings

A great feature of Visual Studio is that it allows you to synchronize the configurations you make, and also allows you to comfortably work on different computers.

This is possible thanks to a Microsoft account, which is required for the use of Visual Studio. This account is requested when you start Visual Studio for the first time, or you can enter the account or modify it for use in Visual Studio at any time by clicking on the Sign in option, located at the top right of the IDE, as shown in Figure 2.1:

Figure 2.1 – Visual Studio – Sign in (at the top right of the main screen)

The main configurations that are synchronized through this process are as follows:

  • User-defined window layout configurations
  • Themes and menu settings
  • Fonts and colors
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Text editor settings

If you do not want to apply the synchronization of your configuration on a particular computer...