Visual Studio 2019 Getting Started
This course Introduces Visual Studio 2019 to people who have never used it before and gets you ready to use it day to day. It also includes productivity boosters for everyone to make writing and reading code easier and more fun.
What you'll learn
Developers targeting a variety of platforms use Visual Studio 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, Visual Studio 2019 Getting Started, covers basic concepts like projects and solutions, and shows you how to write, edit, debug, and improve your code. It goes further into tips and shortcuts that will save you time every day. First, you will learn how to navigate, search, and discover your way through code you didn't write. Next, you will explore how to type less and do less work to get your code written the way you want. Finally, you will touch on how to debug, as well as customize and extend Visual Studio to make it work best for you. When you are finished with this course, you will know the basics of how to use Visual Studio and can focus on a specific language or framework as your next step, or take a course on more specific tasks such as debugging or source control.
Table of contents
- Introduction 0m
- Demo: The Start Window 1m
- Projects and Solutions 2m
- Demo: Creating Projects and Solutions 4m
- Demo: Managing Projects 7m
- Demo: Solution Explorer 3m
- Demo: Building 5m
- Build Configurations 1m
- Debugging Concepts 3m
- Demo: Running and Debugging 7m
- Demo: Running Unit Tests 5m
- Demo: Publishing 3m
- Summary 1m
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