Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux

ISBN-13: 9781484294833 / Angielski

Alessandro Del Sole

Opis

Intermediate user level

Use Visual Studio Code to write and debug code quickly and efficiently on any platform, for any device, using any programming language, and on the operating system of your choice.Visual Studio Code is an open source and cross-platform development tool that focuses on code editing across a variety of development scenarios, including web, mobile, and cloud development. This third edition has been updated to match the latest releases of the environment. Additional updates relate to .NET 7 and explain how to consume AI services from code you write in Visual Studio Code. This new edition is also refreshed with the latest updates, such as enhanced merge editor, creating extensions, support for the Julia language, and much more.The book teaches you how to be immediately productive with Visual Studio Code, from the basics to some of the more complex topics. You will learn how to work on individual code files, complete projects, and come away with an understanding of advanced code-editing features that will help you focus on productivity, and source code collaboration with Git.What You Will Learn

• Get started with practical guidance on Visual Studio Code, including expansive guidance on writing apps with C# and Python
• Understand how to edit individual files and how to work with folders by working on the latest workspace trust and multi-root workspaces
  
• Debug code on multiple platforms through real-world guidance, such as working under corporate networks
  
• Package code into Docker containers and deploy these to Azure
• Acquire valuable tips, tricks, and suggestions from hard-earned, real-world experience to be more productive

Who This Book Is ForAll developers (including JavaScript, Java, NodeJS), not just those with a Microsoft background, who will benefit from learning and using VS code as a cross-platform and cross-language tool

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introducing Visual Studio Code

Chapter Goal: this chapter will introduce Visual Studio Code as a development tool from Microsoft, discussing its open source and cross-platform nature, its goals and most typical usage scenarios, explaining how it works on Windows, macOS and Linux distributions.

Chapter 2: Getting to know the Workspace

Chapter Goal: this chapter will explain the VS Code workspace, its menus, commands, toolbars, shortcuts and areas in the user interface the developer must know to get familiar with the environment. 

Chapter 3: Language support and code editing features

Chapter Goal: this chapter will explain what languages are supported out of the box and which are instead supported through extensibility and, more important, it will cover all the powerful code editing features that represent the core of this tool. This is definitely the most important chapter. This is updated according to the latest releases (e.g. support for Julia language).

Chapter 4: Working with files and folders

Chapter Goal: this chapter explains how to edit individual files and how to work with folders that contain multiple files (or projects) in a structured way, making the natural step forward after learning about code editing features. This is updated according to the releases of the latest 15 months (e.g. workspace trust, multi-root workspaces).

Chapter 5: Customizing VS Code

Chapter Goal: this chapter will talk about customizing preferences in the VS Code environment, such as themes, keyboard shortcuts, the code editor, network preferences and much more. This is updated according to the releases of the latest 15 months

Chapter 6: Managing extensions

Chapter Goal: this chapter will explain how to extend Visual Studio Code by installing extensions such as additional languages, debuggers, code snippets and team collaboration tools. It will also provide a list of must-have extensions and it will explain how to customize extension settings. As a new topic, guidance on how to create extensions will be provided (this is also the reason why this chapter has been renamed).

Chapter 7: Source control with Git

Chapter Goal: this chapter will discuss source control with Git, which is about how people in the development team can collaborate over the code. Common features such as committing changes, merging and branching will be discussed. As a bonus, this chapter will also discuss how to leverage the integrated Git support against Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitHub via an extension. This is updated according to the releases of the latest 15 months (e.g. enhanced merge editor)

Chapter 8: Automating tasks

Chapter Goal: this chapter will discuss how to execute external tools and commands from VS Code (such as compilers), explaining how this goes beyond being a simple code editor. This is updated according to the releases of the latest 15 months

Chapter 9: Building and debugging code

Chapter Goal: this is another key chapter, as it explains how powerful VS Code is as a development tool and not as a simple code editor, due to its capability of running and debugging code with integrated debuggers for .NET and Node.JS and with debuggers that can be installed as extensions. Examples of running and debugging code will be provided for .NET (C#), Node.JS (Java) and Docker. This has been renamed to appear less specific, but it will be updated to target .NET 7.

Chapter 10: Writing applications with Python

Chapter Goal: this chapter explains how VS Code can be used to build apps with the popular Python language, leveraging all the enhanced editing features described in Chapter 3 and the task automation features described in Chapter 8. It comes with fully working code examples.

Chapter 11: Building applications for the Cloud

Chapter Goal: this chapter explains how to set up VS Code to work with Microsoft Azure, installing the appropriate extensions and with practical examples about writing and deploying Azure functions. As a new topic, this chapter also describes how to package code into Docker containers and deploy these to Azure.

Chapter 12: Consuming AI Services with VS Code

Chapter Goal: this is a brand new chapter that wants to address a trending topic of these days: consuming AI services. In this chapter, code examples will be provided about consuming some of the AI services offered by MS Azure (e.g. Computer Vision API). 

O autorze

Alessandro Del Sole is Senior Software Engineer for a healthcare company, building mobile apps for doctors and dialysis patients. He has been in the software industry for more than 20 years, focusing on Microsoft technologies such as .NET, C#, Visual Studio, and Xamarin. He has been a trainer, consultant, and a Microsoft MVP since 2008 and is the author of many technical books. He is a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer, Microsoft Certified Professional, and a Microsoft Programming Specialist in C#.

 

Blurb

Use Visual Studio Code to write and debug code quickly and efficiently on any platform, for any device, using any programming language, and on the operating system of your choice.

Visual Studio Code is an open source and cross-platform development tool that focuses on code editing across a variety of development scenarios, including web, mobile, and cloud development. This third edition has been updated to match the latest releases of the environment. Additional updates relate to .NET 7 and explain how to consume AI services from code you write in Visual Studio Code. This new edition is also refreshed with the latest updates, such as enhanced merge editor, creating extensions, support for the Julia language, and much more.

The book teaches you how to be immediately productive with Visual Studio Code, from the basics to some of the more complex topics. You will learn how to work on individual code files, complete projects, and come away with an understanding of advanced code-editing features that will help you focus on productivity, and source code collaboration with Git.

What You Will Learn

• Get started with practical guidance on Visual Studio Code, including expansive guidance on writing apps with C# and Python
• Understand how to edit individual files and how to work with folders by working on the latest workspace trust and multi-root workspaces
  
• Debug code on multiple platforms through real-world guidance, such as working under corporate networks
  
• Package code into Docker containers and deploy these to Azure
• Acquire valuable tips, tricks, and suggestions from hard-earned, real-world experience to be more productive