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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

Inspection tools for debugging

When working with breakpoints, it is important that we know where to find the information we want to visualize and to know whether it is correct or not. For this, within Visual Studio, we have a series of windows that will allow us to visualize different types of information. So, let's look at them.

Watch window

The Watch window will allow us to keep track of the values of variables or properties while we execute our code step by step. It is especially useful when we have pieces of code that are repeated several times, such as cycles or common methods. To access this window, we must first place a breakpoint in the code and execute the application.

Once the application stops at the breakpoint, we will be able to deploy the Debug | Windows menu. This will show us a set of new debugging windows that we can only access while running the application. Let's select the Watch option to choose a window, as shown in Figure 5.34:

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