You're reading from Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code Get up and running with VS Code by building multi-platform, cloud-native, and microservices-based apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838822934

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Khusro Habib

Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio Code FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Extensions in Visual Studio Code

4. Section 2: Developing Microservices-Based Applications in Visual Studio Code

5. Chapter 3: Building a Multi-Platform Backend Using Visual Studio Code

6. Chapter 4: Building a Service in .NET Core and Exploring Dapr

7. Chapter 5: Building a Web-Based Frontend Application with Angular

8. Chapter 6: Debugging Techniques

9. Chapter 7: Deploying Applications on Azure

10. Chapter 8: Git and Azure DevOps

11. Section 3: Advanced Topics on Visual Studio Code

12. Chapter 9: Creating Custom Extensions in Visual Studio Code

13. Chapter 10: Remote Development in Visual Studio Code

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Productivity extensions

In software development, developer productivity is an important concern. It is vital for the team to make sure that the developers are productive and complete tasks on time. There are various productivity extensions in VS Code that actually help developers make the most of their time to complete their tasks and reach their milestones.

In this section, we will talk about the following three productivity extensions that are useful in software development:

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Visual Studio IntelliCode

The Visual Studio IntelliCode extension provides AI-assisted recommendations as you write code in the Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and MS SQL languages.

Once this is installed, you can get IntelliSense suggestions as you type, and it helps you to write code faster.