Visual Studio 2015: Essentials to the Power-User
This course introduces Visual Studio 2015 to people who may have never used it before. It includes productivity boosters for everyone to make writing and reading code easier and more fun.
What you'll learn
Visual Studio 2015 is an integrated development environment you can use to create applications and libraries with many different frameworks and languages. It has a rich feature set, including an intelligent editor, built in compiler (and related tools), and context sensitive help. This course starts with basic concepts like projects and solutions, shows you how to make Visual Studio look and work the way you want it to, and demonstrates how to use the most popular tool windows and dialogs. It goes further into tips and shortcuts that will save you time every day. Using Visual Studio is about more than writing code or reading code written by others. To be truly productive, you need to debug well and understand the designers that help you build your user interface. This course also shows you how to add helpful extensions that make Visual Studio even better. When you've completed it, you'll know how to use the tool itself and can focus on a specific language or framework as your next step.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Class View 1m
- Demo: Class View 4m
- Seeing Code Your Code Calls 2m
- Demo: Seeing Code Your Code Calls 3m
- Call Hierarchy, Find All References 2m
- Demo: Call Hierarchy, Find All References 2m
- Back and Forward 1m
- Demo: Back and Forward 6m
- Editor Dropdowns 1m
- Demo: Editor Dropdowns 2m
- Overview 2m
- Demo: Overview 2m
- Enhanced Scrollbar 2m
- Demo: Enhanced Scrollbar 3m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Data Tips, Visualizers, and Watches 2m
- Demo: Data Tips, Visualizers, and Watches 15m
- More Complicated Values 1m
- Demo: More Complicated Values 7m
- Don't Break Too Soon or Step Too Much 2m
- Demo: Don't Break Too Soon or Step Too Much 7m
- Beyond Step Over 2m
- Demo: Beyond Step Over 6m
- Summary 2m
About the author
Kate Gregory is in her fifth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking are her preferred ways of sharing wisdom with large groups of people. Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at conferences around the world, with keynotes on 5 continents. Kate develops courses (primarily on C++) for ... more