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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

Debugging projects in Visual Studio

Before discussing the breakpoint topic in depth in the Exploring breakpoints in Visual Studio 2022 section, it is important that you know some technical aspects used in the debugging world, as well as in Visual Studio.

Understanding the technical aspects of debugging

It is important that you know the difference between the terms debugger and debugging so that you know what I mean when I mention any of these terms during the chapter and the book.

First, the term debugging refers to the action of looking for errors in the code. This does not necessarily include the use of a tool such as an IDE. You could, for example, search for errors in code written on a piece of paper, and you would still be debugging.

This is usually not feasible, and a tool called a debugger is often used. This tool is attached to the application process you are going to run, allowing you to analyze your code while the application is running.

Differentiating between...