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Visual Studio 2019 Tricks and Techniques

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203525
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Cure Aaron Cure
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

A brief history of CodeMaid

Steve Cadwallader, a developer hailing from Indiana, has maintained the CodeMaid open source project since its inception. This extension has been available since 2007 and there are versions still available all the way back to Visual Studio 2005! Over the years, Visual Studio's out-of-the-box functionality has gradually incorporated many features that once were only available through CodeMaid. Even so, if you ever want to create your own Visual Studio extension, it is worthwhile examining CodeMaid's open source code at the following web page: https://github.com/codecadwallader/codemaid.

Coding your own extension

There is much to be learned from this veteran project. More details, along with instructions on how to contribute, can be found at https://www.codemaid.net/.

Configuring CodeMaid

The ability to organize code consistently and automatically is where CodeMaid really shines. This Visual Studio extension works to clean up and simplify...

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