Visual Studio 2015 Playbook
Visual Studio is an amazingly powerful, but sometimes-complex development environment. This course contains tricks, techniques, and understanding that will help you use Visual Studio more effectively every day.
What you'll learn
The better you know Visual Studio, the more productive you can be in writing and developing code. In this course, Visual Studio 2015 Playbook, you'll learn how to leverage under-utilized features so you can write code faster and maintain it more effectively. First, you'll learn to how to set up an effective environment. Next, you'll learn how to navigate around your code in Visual Studio. Finally, you'll learn how to edit code and how to use the Visual Studio debugging features for both debugging and light profiling. When you're finished with the course, you'll have a great set of tricks and techniques to make you more effective using Visual Studio and faster in the day to day process of creating and maintaining code.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Symbol Navigation with the F12 Family 5m
- Using NavigateTo 1m
- Moving Between Visual Studio Windows 3m
- Leveraging the Enhanced Scroll Bar 3m
- Understanding the Navigation Bar or Removing It 1m
- Outlining and Hiding Code 2m
- Navigating in the Text Editor 3m
- Enabling and Disabling Word Wrap and Show Whitespace 1m
- Marking Code with Bookmarks 2m
- Find in Files 4m
- Quick Find Popup 2m
- RegEx Search 4m
- Creating Guids 1m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Your Debugging Environment 4m
- Stopping, PerfTips, and Diagnostic Tools 5m
- Locals, Autos, and Watch Windows 3m
- Creating New Objects During Debugging 6m
- Managing Exceptions 4m
- Startup Settings 1m
- Breakpoints Overview 2m
- Setting Breakpoints 4m
- Breakpoints Dialog 3m
- Using Hitcounts 5m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Kathleen Dollard is a .NET Team Coach. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and is an ASP.NET Insider. Kathleen is an INETA Speaker and has given over a hundred speeches around the world. Fluent in both C# and Visual Basic, she’s interested in making core .NET technologies, the best open source tools, and reasonable processes available to all coders so they can to write better software faster. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures including MEF, WebAPI, ROC, and NetKerne... more