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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

Configuring the color scheme

There are different ways to customize Visual Studio 2022, one of the most important of which is to adjust colors.

Whether you're in a well-lit space or coming from another programming environment, you'll probably want to adjust colors according to your personal preferences.

To customize the color scheme in Visual Studio 2022 to our liking, there are two things we can use:

  • Visual Studio default Themes
  • Visual Studio Color Theme Designer

Let's analyze these options and learn how to apply the color scheme that best suits you.

Visual Studio default Themes

The first time you start Visual Studio 2022, you will be presented with a window, which will ask you about development settings, and a color theme, as shown in Figure 2.3:

Figure 2.3 – Selecting the initial theme

These color themes are as follows:

  • Blue
  • Blue (Extra Contrast)
  • Dark
  • Light
  • Use system setting
  • ...