- •Table of Contents
- •About the Author
- •About the Technical Reviewer
- •Acknowledgments
- •Introduction
- •Installing Visual Studio
- •Visual Studio 2022 System Requirements
- •Operating Systems
- •Hardware
- •Supported Languages
- •Additional Notes
- •Visual Studio Is 64-Bit
- •Full .NET 6.0 Support
- •Using Workloads
- •The Solution Explorer
- •Toolbox
- •The Code Editor
- •New Razor Editor
- •What’s Available?
- •Hot Reload
- •Navigating Code
- •Navigate Forward and Backward Commands
- •Navigation Bar
- •Find All References
- •Find Files Faster
- •Reference Highlighting
- •Peek Definition
- •Subword Navigation
- •Features and Productivity Tips
- •Track Active Item in Solution Explorer
- •Hidden Editor Context Menu
- •Open in File Explorer
- •Finding Keyboard Shortcut Mappings
- •Clipboard History
- •Go To Window
- •Navigate to Last Edit Location
- •Multi-caret Editing
- •Sync Namespaces to Match Your Folder Structure
- •Paste JSON As Classes
- •Enable Code Cleanup on Save
- •Add Missing Using on Paste
- •Features in Visual Studio 2022
- •Visual Studio Search
- •Solution Filters
- •Visual Studio IntelliCode
- •Whole Line Completions
- •Visual Studio Live Share
- •Summary
- •Visual Studio Project Types
- •Various Project Templates
- •Console Applications
- •Windows Forms Application
- •Windows Service
- •Web Applications
- •Class Library
- •MAUI
- •Creating a MAUI Application
- •Pairing to Mac for iOS Development
- •Consuming REST Services in MAUI
- •The Complete Weather App
- •The Target Platforms
- •The Required NuGet Package
- •The Weather Models
- •The WeatherService
- •The MainViewModel
- •Registering Dependencies
- •Building the MainPage View
- •Using SQLite in a MAUI Application
- •The ToDoItem Model
- •The ToDoService
- •The MainViewModel
- •Registering Dependencies
- •Building the MainPage View
- •Managing NuGet Packages
- •Using NuGet in Visual Studio
- •Hosting Your Own NuGet Feeds
- •Managing nmp Packages
- •Creating Project Templates
- •Creating and Using Code Snippets
- •Creating Code Snippets
- •Using Bookmarks and Code Shortcuts
- •Bookmarks
- •Code Shortcuts
- •Adding Custom Tokens
- •The Server Explorer
- •Running SQL Queries
- •Visual Studio Windows
- •C# Interactive
- •Code Metrics Results
- •Maintainability Index
- •Cyclomatic Complexity
- •Class Coupling
- •Send Feedback
- •Personalizing Visual Studio
- •Adjust Line Spacing
- •Document Management Customizations
- •The Document Close Button
- •Modify the Dirty Indicator
- •Show Invisible Tabs in Italics in the Tab Drop-Down
- •Colorize Document Tabs
- •Tab Placement
- •Visual Studio Themes
- •Summary
- •Setting a Breakpoint
- •Step into Specific
- •Run to Click
- •Run to Cursor
- •Force Run to Cursor
- •Conditional Breakpoints and Actions
- •Temporary Breakpoints
- •Dependent Breakpoints
- •Dragging Breakpoints
- •Manage Breakpoints with Labels
- •Exporting Breakpoints
- •Using DataTips
- •Visualizing Complex Data Types
- •Bonus Tip
- •Using the Watch Window
- •The DebuggerDisplay Attribute
- •Evaluate Functions Without Side Effects
- •Format Specifiers
- •dynamic
- •hidden
- •results
- •Diagnostic Tools
- •CPU Usage
- •Memory Usage
- •The Events View
- •The Right Tool for the Right Project Type
- •Immediate Window
- •Attaching to a Running Process
- •Attach to a Remote Process
- •Remote Debugger Port Assignments
- •Remote Debugging
- •System Requirements
- •Download and Install Remote Tools
- •Running Remote Tools
- •Start Remote Debugging
- •Summary
- •Creating and Running Unit Tests
- •Create and Run a Test Playlist
- •Testing Timeouts
- •Using Live Unit Tests
- •Using IntelliTest to Generate Unit Tests
- •Focus IntelliTest Code Exploration
- •How to Measure Code Coverage in Visual Studio
- •Summary
- •Create a GitHub Account
- •Create and Clone a Repository
- •Create a Branch from Your Code
- •Creating and Handling Pull Requests
- •Multi-repo Support
- •Compare Branches
- •Check Out Commit
- •Line Staging
- •Summary
- •Index
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Visual Studio 2022
Let us have a brief look at the recommended system requirements for installing Visual Studio on your machine. For a comprehensive list, browse to https://docs. microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/system-requirements and have a read through that.
Visual Studio 2022 System Requirements
The system requirements for installing Visual Studio 2022 might differ from those of previous versions of Visual Studio. Refer to the documentation on https://docs. microsoft.com to review the system requirements for previous versions of Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022, Visual Studio Professional 2022, and Visual Studio Community 2022 all support the following minimum system requirements.
Operating Systems
The following 64-bit Windows operating systems are supported:
•\ |
Windows 11 version 21H2 or higher |
•\ |
Windows 10 version 1909 or higher |
•\ |
Windows Server 2022 – Standard and Datacenter |
•\ |
Windows Server 2019 – Standard and Datacenter |
•\ |
Windows Server 2016 – Standard and Datacenter |
Hardware
There is a line here that developers generally don’t like to cross when it comes to the minimum hardware specs. Many developers I know will geek out on system RAM and favor SSDs over HDDs. Nevertheless, here are the minimum recommended requirements:
•\ |
1.8 GHz or faster 64-bit processor (quad-core or better |
|
recommended). ARM processors are not supported. |
•\ |
4 GB of RAM (16 GB of RAM recommended). |
•\ |
Minimum 2 vCPU and 8 GB RAM. 4 vCPU and 16 GB of RAM is |
|
recommended. |
4
|
Chapter 1 Getting to Know Visual Studio 2022 |
•\ |
Minimum of 850 MB and up to 210 GB of available hard disk space |
|
(depending on installed features, 20–50 GB of free space is typically |
|
required). |
•\ |
For improved performance, install Windows and Visual Studio |
|
on an SSD. |
•\ |
Minimum display resolution of WXGA (1366 by 768) but works best at |
|
1920 by 1080 or higher. |
Supported Languages
Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Installer are available in 14 languages as follows:
•\ |
English |
•\ |
Chinese (Simplified) |
•\ |
Chinese (Traditional) |
•\ |
Czech |
•\ |
French |
•\ |
German |
•\ |
Italian |
•\ |
Japanese |
•\ |
Korean |
•\ |
Polish |
•\ |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
•\ |
Russian |
•\ |
Spanish |
•\ |
Turkish |
Additional Notes
There are several additional requirements to take note of that I will briefly list here. There are however other requirements that might be of importance to your unique
5