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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

Selecting and searching for templates

As mentioned in the introduction of this chapter, Visual Studio has many templates that we can use with .NET and other technologies, depending on the type of project you are working on.

To explore the templates in Visual Studio 2022, just open Visual Studio and select the Create a new project option:

Figure 4.1 – The Visual Studio Create a new project option

Figure 4.1 – The Visual Studio Create a new project option

After selecting this option, we will see a list of templates to choose from for creating our new project, as shown in Figure 4.2. Similarly, on the left side, we will be able to see the templates we have recently selected, with the option to pin or unpin each template, so that we can quickly select the templates that we use the most:

Figure 4.2 – The option to pin or unpin a template in the Recent project templates section

Figure 4.2 – The option to pin or unpin a template in the Recent project templates section

In Figure 4.2, we also see a search bar at the top for filtering the different templates. If...