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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

64-bit architecture

A simple but important feature in Visual Studio 2022 is the new architecture in 64 bit. This is a change that we cannot see, but internally, it takes advantage of a 64-bit CPU to improve the performance and reduce delays in the execution of multiple tasks.

Visual Studio 2022 only supports a 64-bit system; this is something common in current laptops and PCs.

Using Task Manager in Windows, you will be able to notice the difference when Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 are running at the same time:

Figure 3.1 – Visual Studio 2022 on the 64-bit platform and 2019 on the 32-bit platform

Figure 3.1 – Visual Studio 2022 on the 64-bit platform and 2019 on the 32-bit platform

With a 32-bit architecture, there was an access limitation of 4 GB of memory. Now, thanks to a 64-bit architecture, it is possible to access a larger amount of memory, reducing time limits and avoiding IDE freezes or crashes.

All in all, the Visual Studio development team improved the performance for many scenarios in version 2022. You will notice...