Learn how to configure Visual Studio's code editor to suit your programming workflow. Find out how to format code, track changes, use snippets, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What you should know before watching
- Explore the default editor settings
- Configure the text editor settings
- Customize the IDE colors and fonts
- Explore the code editor window
- How the proper editor is loaded
- Write basic code
- Use the Comment tools
- Use outliners and regions in your code
- Use hover tips
- Visualize code and markup with structure guidelines in Visual Studio 2017
- Use IntelliSense effectively
- Change tracking for code edits
- Quick actions with the light bulb tool
- Refactor your existing code
- Refactor enhancements in Visual Studio 2017
- Whitespace, tabs, and indenting code
- Formatting and arranging code layout
- Format rules for Visual Basic
- Format rules for Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2017
- Format rules for C#
- Format rules for C# in Visual Studio 2017
- Format rules for C++
- Format rules for HTML and XML
- Format rules for JavaScript
- Format rules for XAML
- Use EditorConfig in Visual Studio 2017
- Navigate the code pages
- Use the enhanced editor scrollbar
- Navigate with bookmarks
- Navigate within a code page
- Peek and Lookup Definition
- The Go To tool in Visual Studio 2017
- Smart peek options
- Find All References in Visual Studio 2017
- CodeMap in Visual Studio 2017
- Use the Task List
- Document your code
- Add snippets to the Toolbox
- Work with code snippets in the editor
- Use surround-with code snippets
- Next steps
Taught by
Walt Ritscher
