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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

Customizing fonts

There are two places where you will probably be interested in changing the type of font you use:

  • In the general environment
  • In the source code editor

Let's analyze each of the options as follows.

Changing fonts in the IDE

To change typography at the IDE level, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Tools | Options menu.
  2. In the configuration window, go to the Environment | Fonts and Colors section.
  3. In this section, select the Environment option in the Show settings for drop-down list.

This will allow you to change options such as font and size:

Figure 2.8 – Changing the environment font settings

In Figure 2.8, we can use the option Font to change the Automatic or Default font in Visual Studio and see how it looks using the Sample section.

Now let's review reference highlighting to see how to customize the way Visual Studio highlights text in the code.

Reference highlighting

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