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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 panels

Panels in Visual Studio are a way to access specific tools according to the type of project you are working on.

These panels are composed of tools and document editors, some of which are used most of the time, such as the solution explorer (to see the structure of your projects), the toolbox (which shows you controls to drag and drop according to the current project), the properties panel (to modify the properties of the selected element), and the code editor.

It is important that you know how to work with these panels so that you can configure the set of tools and editors that best suits your projects. That is why in this section, we will look at the following topics:

  • Adding tools to panels
  • Panel accommodation
  • Working with documents
  • Managing window layouts

Let's learn how to configure the IDE to show you the tools that you will need for your project.

Adding tools to panels

Visual Studio 2022 has many tools or windows that...