Hands-On Visual Studio 2022: A developer’s guide to exploring new features and best practices in VS2022 for maximum productivity

by Hector Uriel Perez Rojas, Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia

Length: 350 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2022-06-30
ISBN-10: 1801810540
ISBN-13: 9781801810548
Sales Rank: #308304 (See Top 100 Books)

Learn to design, develop, debug, and deploy technologies by harnessing the full power of Visual Studio 2022 by discovering its new features and exclusive techniques

Key Features

Discover solutions to common problems faced while using Visual Studio 2022
Explore tips, tricks, and best practices and discover ways to overcome source-code challenges
Deep dive into Visual Studio’s new features and unleash its potential to enhance your coding journey

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Understand what’s new in Visual Studio 2022
Discover the various code tools to improve productivity
Explore the benefits of using .NET 6 in Visual Studio 2022
Perform compilation, debugging, and version control comfortably
Become well-versed with various shortcuts, tricks, tips, and tools to improve productivity within Visual Studio 2022
Implement remote and collaborative work with Visual Studio 2022

Who this book is for

This book is for .NET software developers focusing on web development and web developers who want to learn about the new features, tools, and features available in Visual Studio 2022. Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or frameworks such as React and Angular is assumed.

Hands-On Visual Studio 2022
Contributors
About the authors
About the reviewer
Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    To get the most out of this book
    Download the example code files
    Download the color images
    Conventions used
    Get in touch
Part 1: Visual Studio Overview
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022
    Technical requirements
    A brief history of VS
    VS flavors
        Visual Studio Community 
        Visual Studio Professional 
        Visual Studio Enterprise 
    Installing VS 2022
        Getting the installer from the website
        Installation process
    VS for Mac
    Summary
Chapter 2: Configuring the IDE
    Technical requirements
    Synchronizing accounts and settings 
    Configuring the color scheme
        Visual Studio default Themes
        Visual Studio Marketplace
    Customizing fonts
        Changing fonts in the IDE
        Reference highlighting
        Changing fonts in the code editor
    Customizing the menu bar and toolbars 
        Customizing the menu bar
        Customizing toolbars
    Customizing panels
        Adding tools to panels
        Panel accommodation
        Working with documents
        Managing window layouts
    Summary
Chapter 3: Improvements in Visual Studio 2022
    Technical requirements
    64-bit architecture
    New icons and styles
    .NET 6 support
    Hot Reload
    Other improvements
    Summary
Chapter 4: Creating Projects and Templates
    Technical requirements
    Selecting and searching for templates
    Templates for .NET Core
    Templates for APIs
    Templates for .NET Framework
    Templates for SPAs
    Summary
Chapter 5: Debugging and Compiling Your Projects
    Technical requirements
    Debugging projects in Visual Studio
        Understanding the technical aspects of debugging
        Differentiating between debug mode and run mode
        Project debugging initialization options
    Exploring breakpoints in Visual Studio
        Navigating between breakpoints
        Conditional breakpoints
        Function breakpoints
        Data breakpoints
        Dependent breakpoints
        Temporary breakpoints
    Inspection tools for debugging
        Watch window
        QuickWatch
        The Autos and Locals windows
        Call stacks
        Immediate window
    Summary
Part 2: Tools and Productivity
Chapter 6: Adding Code Snippets
    Technical requirements
    What are code snippets?
    Creating code snippets
    Deleting code snippets
    Importing code snippets
    Summary
Chapter 7: Coding Efficiently with AI and Code Views
    Technical requirements
    Understanding CodeLens
        Finding references in code
        Code maps
    Working with code views
        Class view
        The object browser
    Using Visual IntelliCode
        Whole line completions
        IntelliCode suggestions
    Summary
Chapter 8: Web Tools and Hot Reload
    Technical requirements
    Using scaffolding
    Installing JavaScript and CSS libraries
    Debugging in JavaScript
    Hot Reload
    Summary
Chapter 9: Styling and Cleanup Tools
    Technical requirements 
    Woking with CSS styling tools
        CSS3 snippets
        Hierarchical CSS indentation
        Color picker
        IntelliSense in style files
        Working with images
    Cleaning code with code analysis tools
        Code quality analysis
        Working with code styles
        Configuring a code cleanup profile
        Executing code cleanup
    Summary
Chapter 10: Publishing Projects
    Technical requirements
    The options to publish a project 
    Publishing in a folder
    Publishing in IIS
    Publishing in Microsoft Azure
    Summary
Part 3: GitHub Integration and Extensions
Chapter 11: Implementing Git Integration
    Technical requirements
    Getting started with Git settings
    Creating a Git repository
    Cloning a Git repository
    Fetching, pulling, and pushing Git repositories
        Fetching repositories
        Pulling repositories
        Pushing to repositories
    Managing branches
    Viewing changes in repositories
    Summary
Chapter 12: Sharing Code with Live Share 
    Technical requirements
    Understanding VS Live Share
    Using Live Share
    Performing live editing
    Sharing a terminal with other collaborators
    Summary
Chapter 13: Working with Extensions in Visual Studio
    Technical requirements
    Working with the extensions tool
    Searching for and installing extensions
    Reviewing Visual Studio Marketplace
    Setting up extensions
    Creating a new theme as an extension
    Summary
Chapter 14: Using Popular Extensions
    Technical requirements
    Adding HTML Snippet Pack
        Downloading and installing HTML Snippet Pack
        Using HTML Snippet Pack
    Cleaning up code with CodeMaid
        Installing CodeMaid in Visual Studio 2022
        Using CodeMaid
    Compiling web libraries with Web Compiler
        Installing Web Compiler
        Using Web Compiler
    Identifying white spaces with Indent Guides
        Installing Indent Guides
    Summary
Chapter 15: Learning Keyboard Shortcuts
    Technical requirements
    Shortcuts for use in source code
        Shortcuts for searching and navigating through source code
        Shortcuts for editing and refactoring
        Shortcuts for debugging and testing
    The most common shortcuts for use in the IDE
    Creating custom shortcuts
    Summary
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