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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

Understanding CodeLens

CodeLens is a powerful set of tools that is useful for finding references in code, relationships between your different components, seeing the history of changes in the code, linked bugs, code reviews, unit tests, and so on.

In this section, we will analyze the most important tools of this feature. Let's start by seeing how we can find references in our code.

Finding references in code

CodeLens is presented in our code files from the first time we use Visual Studio. We can check this by going to any class, method, or property and verifying that a sentence appears, indicating the number of references in the project about it. In Figure 7.2, we can see that we have opened the WeatherForecastController.cs file, which shows us that three references have been found for the WeatherForecastController class:

Figure 7.2 – References for the WeatherForecastController class

This means that the WeatherForecastController class...