Preface

Visual Studio 2022 is a 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 use all the tools provided by this IDE. You will then learn key combinations, tips, and additional utilities that can help you to code faster and review your code constantly. You will see how to compile, debug, and inspect your project to analyze its current behavior using Visual Studio. You will see how to insert reusable blocks of code writing simple statements. You will learn about some visual aids and artificial intelligence that will help you improve productivity and understand what is going on in a 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.