This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning Visual Studio Essential Training course. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Learn the essentials of Visual Studio, the integrated development environment from Microsoft. Unlock the power of Visual Studio tools for writing, refactoring, and debugging code.

Integrated development environments (IDE) make it faster and easier to write high-quality code. Visual Studio, the IDE from Microsoft, has every tool you need to be a productive developer—regardless of your language, programming style, or project type. This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Visual Studio, allowing you to explore the tools and features and configure Visual Studio to support your needs. Instructor Walt Ritscher shows how to implement version control with Git, adjust the editor preferences, code more efficiently with IntelliSense and code snippets, and use the built-in tools in Visual Studio for refactoring and debugging code. Plus, learn how to make Visual Studio even more robust by capitalizing on the library of free and paid extensions in the Visual Studio Marketplace.

*Topics include:

• Installing and configuring Visual Studio
• Working with files and projects
• Adding a project to Git
• Using checkout to open files from Git
• Configuring editor settings
• Writing code in the editor
• Using IntelliSense and snippets
• Change tracking code
• Refactoring
• Formatting code
• Exploring classes
• Finding references
• Debugging code
• Adding Visual Studio extensions

All the examples for this course are available to you as exercise files. The exercises for the first half of the course can be downloaded from the course page. If you are signed in to your account, you can download the zip file. In the second half of the course the remainder of the exercise files are available from this LinkedIn Learning repository

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is chapter#-video#. As an example, the branch named 02-03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning state (04-01) and an end state (04-01e). The end state videos use e for "end" and contains the code as it is at the end of the video. The master branch holds the the initial state of the course and is not used for exercises during the course.

To use these exercise files install Visual Studio. For this course any edition is sufficient (Community, Professional, Enterprise)

This is a refreshed version of our Visual Studio Essential series. To discover additional content not covered in this course please enjoy our other LinkedIn Learning Visual Studio courses.

1. Visual Studio Tips

2. Visual Studio Tips for Web Developers

3. Essential Training: 11 Data Tools

4. Essential Training: 10 Protecting Your Code Base with Source Control Providers

5. Essential Training: 09 Unit Tests

6. Essential Training: 08 Extend and Customize the Visual Studio Environment

7. Essential Training: 07 Understanding Project Types

8. Essential Training: 04 Surveying the Programming Languages

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