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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

.NET 6 support

.NET is a free, open source framework used to create web, desktop, mobile, and other kinds of applications, using C#, F#, and Visual Basic (with C# being the most popular one).

A new version of .NET has been released every year. .NET 6 is a new long-term support version, which offers great new improvements, such as minimal APIs and C# 10 compatibility. For more information about the improvements, you can visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-6.

Visual Studio 2022 is ready to create, compile, and publish projects using this new version.

In Chapter 4, Creating Projects and Templates, we will analyze the projects and templates provided by Visual Studio and look at the option to choose .NET 6 for our applications.

We can create projects using .NET 6, but we can also use a new functionality for quickly checking the code changes. In the next section, we will review how Hot Reload can improve our productivity while using Visual Studio...