Visual Studio Guide

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New feature supported by VS2013

To improve the efficiency of the team.

• Peek Definition(select the key you want to peek, and click Alt+F12 )

• Peek help in MSDN (select the key you want to peek, and click Alt +F1)

• Navigate To(Ctrl +,)

• CodeLens (Tool->Option->Text Editor->All Languages->CodeLens)

• Quick Launch (Ctrl+Q)

• Debug->Performance and Diagnostics

• Edit and Continue supported for 64bit

New feature supported by VS2017

Breakpoint Labels

Within Visual Studio, once you’ve created a breakpoint, you can add one or more labels to it by simply right-clicking and choosing Edit Labels:

edit-breakpoint-label

After adding labels to breakpoints, you can view them in the Breakpoints window:

breakpoint window

If you present code at conferences, user groups, etc., you may find labeled breakpoints useful during demos. You can add a label like “Demo 1” to some breakpoints, and “Demo 2” to others. Toggle which breakpoints are enabled when you run your application in order to demonstrate different topics.

Parallel Builds

https://www.codeproject.com/tips/1042975/tips-to-improve-visual-studio-build-performance

Shortcut Keys in VS2017

Search

• Incremental Search Ctrl + I

• Find All Reference Shift + F12

Navigation

• Full Screen Shift+Alt+Enter

• Go To Implementation Ctrl + F12

Visual Studio 2017 Extensions

Python Development with Visual Studio 2017

• Getting Started with Python Development using Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2019

Visual Studio 2019 Extensions

• Whack Whack Terminal

Terminal emulator for Visual Studio. Allows you to run command prompt, powershell, WSL bash. All including interactive mode.