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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

Working with code views

In addition to CodeLens, there are several windows that can help us to examine the classes of a project and its members in a quicker way. In this section, you are going to learn about them and how they can help you in breaking down code of a project in Visual Studio.

Class view

The class view is a window that allows you to see the elements of a Visual Studio project, such as namespaces, types, interfaces, enumerations, and classes, allowing you to access each of these elements quickly. Perhaps if you have worked with small projects in Visual Studio, you might not see it as being of much use. But if, like me, you work with solutions that can have up to 20 projects or more, then it is an excellent option to examine code.

To access this window, you must select the View | Class View option from the menu, which will display the Class View window, showing all the elements of the solution that is currently open, as shown in Figure 7.12:

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