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Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

By : Aaron Cure, Schroeder
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Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

4.2 (9)
By: Aaron Cure, Schroeder

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2019 (VS 2019) and Visual Studio Code (VS Code) are powerful professional development tools that help you to develop applications for any platform with ease. Whether you want to create web, mobile, or desktop applications, Microsoft Visual Studio is your one-stop solution. This book demonstrates some of the most sophisticated capabilities of the tooling and shows you how to use the integrated development environment (IDE) more efficiently to be more productive. You’ll begin by gradually building on concepts, starting with the basics. The introductory chapters cover shortcuts, snippets, and numerous optimization tricks, along with debugging techniques, source control integration, and other important IDE features that will help you make your time more productive. With that groundwork in place, more advanced concepts such as the inner workings of project and item templates are covered. You will also learn how to write quality, secure code more efficiently as well as discover how certain Visual Studio features work 'under the hood'. By the end of this Visual Studio book, you’ll have learned how to write more secure code faster than ever using your knowledge of the extensions and processes that make developing successful solutions more enjoyable and repeatable.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Visual Studio IDE Productivity Essentials
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Section 2: Customizing Project Templates and Beyond
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Section 3: Leveraging Extensions for the Win

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use snippets that come pre-installed with Visual Studio and how to manage them with the Code Snippets Manager dialog. We also detailed the special keywords and different XML elements and that make up a snippet file's definition. Finally, you were able to import a custom snippet and put it to use in a sample project.

Sharing and using snippets is one technique developer teams can use to make it easier to standardize common internal practices. Moreover, code snippets simply make you a more efficient developer; knowing how they work makes you more proficient, and knowing how to craft your own is even better!

In the next chapter, we are going to add another tool to your utility belt when we examine database explorers. This handy bit of functionality is available right within the Visual Studio IDE without the need to use separate tools, unless you prefer that approach, of course.

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