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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

Exploring breakpoints in Visual Studio

Breakpoints are a fundamental part of software development. They allow you to stop the flow of your application at any point you want to inspect the state of your objects.

To place a breakpoint in Visual Studio, it is enough that we position ourselves right next to the numbering of the lines. This will start showing a gray circle that will appear and disappear as we move the cursor over the line numbers, as shown here:

Figure 5.6 – The location for placing breakpoints in Visual Studio

Once we find the line we want to debug, we just need to left-click once, which will cause the circle to turn red, as shown in Figure 5.7. Once you have done this, if you move the cursor away from the circle, you will be able to see how it remains as it is, as shown here:

Figure 5.7 – Placing a breakpoint

If we proceed to execute the application with the breakpoint set, we will see how the application...