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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

Using Visual IntelliCode

IntelliCode is the tool integrated into Visual Studio 2022, which allows you to write code faster, thanks to artificial intelligence. It is a tool that has been trained with thousands of popular open source projects hosted on GitHub, and although it was already beginning to show a little of its potential in Visual Studio 2019, it is in this version where all the features have been implemented.

IntelliCode can suggest patterns and styles while you write code, giving you accurate suggestions according to the context in which you find yourself, so you can complete lines of code. IntelliCode is also able to show you the methods and properties you are most likely to use and supports completion in multiple programming languages, such as the following:

  • C#
  • C++
  • XAML
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Visual Basic

Let's examine how this amazing tool works in the following subsections.

Whole line completions

IntelliCode can be extremely...