Visual Studio 2015: Increase your Productivity

Visual Studio 2015

Denis Voituron.Net Software Architect

Increasingyour productivity

[email protected] www.dvoituron.be @denisvoituron

About me

Denis Voituron

Civil engineer (Mons)

Company founder

Developer: VB3, VB.Net, C#

.Net Software Architect (Trasys)

Blogger

• Code Like a Ninja• Intellisense• Shortcuts• Windows• Refactoring

• Debugging Tips and Tricks• Breakpoints• Debugger Visualizers• Exceptions to simplify debugging• Intellitrace

Agenda

• Editor• Quick Launch• Block Selection

• Intellisense• Camel Case Filter• Pascal Case Filter

• Start Page• Project Pinning• Project Removal• Windows Task Bar• Completely Redone

Code Like a Ninja

• Code Editor• Navigate To Ctrl + ,• Resolve a unknown namespace Ctrl + ;• Go To Definition F12• Peek Definition Alt + F12• Find All Ref. Shift + F12• Code Lens• Highlighting• Paste XML/JSON As Classes

• Go Back Ctrl+ -• Go Forward Ctrl + Shift + -• Zoom Ctrl + MouseWheel

Code Like a Ninja

• Windows• Architecture• Multiple Monitors Win + Arrow• Floating Windows

• Regions• Collapse or Expand Ctrl + M, M• Collapse All Ctrl + M, O• Expand All Ctrl + M, L• Hide Ctrl + M, H

Code Like a Ninja

• Comments• Comment Selection Ctrl + K, C• Uncomment Selection Ctrl + K, U

• Extensions• Extension Manager• Online Gallery• Easy to disable or uninstall DevEnv.exe /

SafeMode

• Example : Web Essentials

Code Like a Ninja

• Refactoring• Extract Interface Ctrl + R, I• Extract Method Ctrl + R, M• Rename Variables, Methods, … Ctrl + R, R• Encapsulate Field to a Property Ctrl + R, E

• Quick Actions Ctrl + ;

• Snippet• Code Snippet Picker Ctrl + K, X

Surround with Snippet Ctrl + K, SExtension Snippet Designer

Code Like a Ninja

• DebugVisualizer• BreakPoint (F9)• Traces Pinnable• Changes in Red color• PerfTips

Debugging Tips and Tricks

• DebuggerVisualizer• Default Visualizers• Text / Html / Xml / Json• WPF• DataSet / DataTable

• DialogDebuggerVisualizer• Create a DLL (target must be Serializable)• Copy to <VSDir>\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers


• Exceptions Dialog Box (Ctrl-Alt-E)• Check to throw exceptions


int result = 0;int zero = 0;

try{ result = 10 / zero;}catch (DivideByZeroException){

}

• Conditional BreakPoint• Break when the code meets a condition

• Display the Call Stack


• System.Diagnostics.Debugger• Conditional BreakPoint is very slow


int numberOfElements = 10000;

for (int i = 0; i < numberOfElements; i++){ if (Debugger.IsAttached && i == numberOfElements - 2) Debugger.Break();}

• Debugger Attributes

• [DebuggerDisplay("{X}, {Y}, {Z}")]

• [DebuggerBrowsable(DebuggerBrowsableState.Never)]

• [DebuggerBrowsable(DebuggerBrowsableState.RootHidden)]


• IntelliTrace & Diagnostic Tools• BlackBox Recorder• Enable IntelliTrace

via "Options / IntelliTrace"

• Memory, CPU, Traces• Time Frame, Duraction

• StandAlone IntelliTrace• http://bit.ly/1JQJc68


Visual Studio 2015

http://[email protected]

References

• Channel9: bit.ly/1Gykh6q• Visualizer: bit.ly/1IVclOj• Poster: bit.ly/1cepvrl