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

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.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022
2. Configuring the IDE
3. Improvements in Visual Studio 2022
4. Creating Projects and Templates
5. Debugging and Compiling Your Projects
6. Adding Code Snippets
7. Coding Efficiently with AI and Code Views
8. Web Tools and Hot Reload
9. Styling and Clean up Tools
10. Publishing Projects
11. Implementing Git Integration
12. Sharing Code with Live Share
13. Working with Extensions in Visual Studio
14. Using Popular Extensions
15. Learning Keyboard Shortcuts

Miguel is a solutions architect expert at Microsoft Technologies with over 10 years of experience. In 2020, he was recognized as a Microsoft MVP, and in 2021, as an Alibaba Cloud MVP. Miguel is an active member of tech communities and a content author in C# corner.

Hector is an experienced senior developer, with more than 10 years of experience in developing desktop, web, and mobile solutions with the .NET platform. He was recognized in 2021 with the Microsoft MVP award. He is an active member of the community and has his own training academy.