You're reading from Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques A developer's guide to writing better code and maximizing productivity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800203525

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET Core

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Application Development

Authors (2):

Aaron Cure

Paul Schroeder

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Visual Studio IDE Productivity Essentials

2. Chapter 1: Flavors of Visual Studio FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keyboard Shortcuts

4. Chapter 3: IDE Tips and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Working with a Repository

6. Chapter 5: Working with Snippets

7. Chapter 6: Database Explorers

8. Chapter 7: Compiling, Debugging, and Versioning

9. Section 2: Customizing Project Templates and Beyond

10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Project and Item Templates

11. Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Templates

12. Chapter 10: Deploying Custom Templates

13. Section 3: Leveraging Extensions for the Win

14. Chapter 11: Overviewing Visual Studio 2019 Extensions

15. Chapter 12: Overviewing VS Code Extensions

16. Chapter 13: CodeMaid is Your Friend

17. Chapter 14: Be Your Team's Hero with CodeGenHero

18. Chapter 15: Secure Code with Puma Scan

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Appendix

Using the VSIX deployment package

In prior chapters, we had to take steps to manually install our custom project and item templates. Because we are using a VSIX extension installation project, we no longer need to manually import our template. Instead, simply running the CitySelector.Deploy project will make our template available for testing in Visual Studio's experimental instance.

If you are unfamiliar with using the experimental instance, it is basically a shadow copy of Visual Studio made automatically for you during installation. This copy is then used by developers to experiment with code in a way that does not affect your main instance. If anything gets corrupted, simply run the Reset the Visual Studio 2019 Experimental Instance app and a new, fresh, shadow copy is made.

As you will see in a moment, debugging launches a second—separate—instance of Visual Studio. This action is controlled by specifying a command-line argument of /rootsuffix Exp...