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Introduction to Visual Studio

Introduction to Visual Studio. Keith Elder Microsoft MVP http://keithelder.net/blog/. What Does Visual Studio Do?. Start Screen of Visual Studio. Dockable Windows. Solutions and Projects. Files are opened in tabs. Your First Project. First Project: Console Application. Solution Facts.

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Introduction to Visual Studio

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  1. Introduction to Visual Studio Keith Elder Microsoft MVP http://keithelder.net/blog/

  2. What Does Visual Studio Do?

  3. Start Screen of Visual Studio Dockable Windows Solutions and Projects Files are opened in tabs.

  4. Your First Project

  5. First Project: Console Application Solution Facts

  6. Solution Facts

  7. Solution Facts

  8. Solution Facts – File System Most things in Visual Studio map directly to the file system. Tip: User options should never be checked into source control.

  9. Solution Facts – Solution Folders Tip: Solution folders aren’t “real” folders.

  10. Project Facts

  11. Project Facts

  12. Project Facts - Just XML

  13. Demo Solutions and Projects

  14. Building Your Software

  15. Building Software: Ctrl-Shift-B The key shortcut ctrl-shift-b is how you can test your project to see if it compiles. Build errors show up in the Error List. Double click an error to jump to that line in your solution.

  16. Build Configurations • Configurations Provide • Different build types (debug or release) • Different CPU builds • Which projects should orshould not be built.

  17. Build Facts

  18. Demo Building your software

  19. Debugging My code is perfect! How about yours?

  20. Debugging Facts

  21. Debugging – Visualizers

  22. Debugging – Quick Watches

  23. Demo Finding those bugs

  24. Productive Coding in Visual Studio

  25. Coding Facts

  26. Demo I didn’t know I could code this fast!

  27. Links • Sara Ford – Visual Studio Tip of the Day • http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/ • http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Tips-Sara/dp/0735626405/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225990469&sr=8-1 • http://tinyurl.com/deepfried15(podcast with Sara)

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