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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835080443

Length 336 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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.NET

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Web Programming

Authors (2):

Hector Uriel Perez Rojas

Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

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Understanding Live Share

Live Share is a real-time collaboration tool for programmers who use VS and VS Code. Live Share was launched as an extension for VS 2017, with some trial features available at that time. In VS 2022, it is included by default and contains all the features.

Live Share has tools to edit, debug, share terminals, and execute projects for remote developers. We don’t need to clone the repository or install additional extensions to see code and interact with it.

To complement the information provided in this chapter and the functionalities that you will review in the Using Live Share section, you can read the documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/liveshare/.

These kinds of collaboration tools are not new. Other IDEs have extensions and components to share code and work in real time. You can try out the following tools and compare them with Live Share:

Duckly (https://duckly.com/): A real-time collaboration tool with video calls and other features compatible with many IDEs.
CodeTogether (https://www.codetogether.com/): A tool to create shared coding sessions that supports VS Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and Eclipse.

Important note

There are no other free collaboration tools for VS. Live Share is supported by Microsoft and the community.

In this section, we provided a brief overview of Live share, its history, and alternative tools that perform similar tasks. Now, let’s start to use Live Share.