Mads Kristensen, Microsoft
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 9:00 to 9:30 am EST
- How to work from home more effectively.
- Showing how to change VS 2019 pane layouts with keyboard shortcuts.
- Shift tabs to left-hand side so you get more vertical resolution for your code windows.
- You can also sort your tabs in different ways, e.g. alphabetically.
- If you have an under-powered PC, how can we help VS?
- Lots of projects loaded in your solution.
- The next time you open the solution, VS has to reload all that state.
- He changed options to not restore all that state.
- Rewatch to find where he changed those options.
- He switched to his web development window layout.
- Minimized tool windows are not loaded.
- “Reset Tool Windows” extension.
- Tools / Options / Startup / Reset Tool Windows
- Solution Explorer should be the only option you leave set to True.
- Visual Studio starts much faster.
- Clicked “Connect to Codespace” in the File menu.
- Opening a Git repo.
- Clicked “Create”.
- All of his updates in a local VS instance are available through the Codespace in the cloud.
- It will look exactly the same in both.
- He brought up Task Manager.
- Using 26% CPU.
- Screen sharing, broadcasting, VS, etc.
- He rebuilt the solution.
- His local machine is not affected because it’s all happening in the Codespace in the cloud!
- He can have multiple instances of VS running and it will have minimal impact on his machine.
- Some of these features are only available in the preview version of VS 2019, e.g. Codespaces.
- https://aka.ms/vsfutures-signup
- Enable preview features in Tools, Options.
- He install the New File extension as soon as he installs VS.
- Shift-F2 will create new files, will create types inferred from the name, e.g. IFoo will create an interface.
- Can directly type folder paths in the dialog.
- Watch Mads’ pre-recorded session for on-boarding a dev environment.
- Takes seconds! “It’s bonkers.”
- “Modern development in VS 2019.”