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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

Chapter 4: Creating Projects and Templates

A template within Visual Studio is a set of files, references, project properties, and compilation options for working with a particular technology. Templates provide us with basic code to work with and acts as a guide that we can follow and complete by including our business logic and requirements. Different templates are installed according to the workloads that have been selected during Visual Studio installation, although there are templates that will be installed by default, such as class libraries. Depending on the project or technology we want to use, we will find different template options to choose from. Selecting the right template that fits your needs is the best action that you can take to evade technical debt and future issues in your architecture.

In this chapter, we will analyze the main web development templates provided by Visual Studio 2022 and the options available to customize these templates. Also, during this chapter...