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Hands-On Visual Studio 2022

You're reading from   Hands-On Visual Studio 2022 A developer's guide to new features and best practices with .NET 8 and VS 2022 for maximum productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080443
Length 336 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Visual Studio Overview FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 2022 3. Chapter 2: Creating Projects and Templates 4. Chapter 3: Debugging and Profiling Your Apps 5. Part 2: Tools and Productivity
6. Chapter 4: Adding Code Snippets 7. Chapter 5: Coding Efficiently with AI and Code Views 8. Chapter 6: Using Tools for Frontend and Backend Development 9. Chapter 7: Styling and Cleanup Tools 10. Chapter 8: Publishing Projects 11. Part 3: GitHub Integration and Extensions
12. Chapter 9: Implementing Git Integration 13. Chapter 10: Sharing Code with Live Share 14. Chapter 11: Working with Extensions in Visual Studio 15. Chapter 12: Using Popular Extensions 16. Chapter 13: Learning Keyboard Shortcuts 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Searching for and installing extensions

The Extensions tool, which is shown in Figure 11.2, has a search box located at the top, where we can enter a search term to find extensions referring to some technology or tool. It is important to note that the search will be performed in the selected tab, as we discussed in the Working with the Extensions tools section.

If you want to perform a search among all the extensions, the best thing to do is to go to the Browse category and perform the search. In our example, we’ll search for extensions related to the keyword javascript:

Figure 11.2 – A list of results in the Extensions tool

Figure 11.2 – A list of results in the Extensions tool

The order of the list of extensions will appear according to the drop-down item at the top, which appears as sorting by Relevance by default. However, we can also select other options, such as displaying by Installs, Updated date, Trending, or Rating.

Let’s do another test, this time to install an extension...

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