Check out Rapidly Adding New Files in Visual Studio to learn more. With this extension installed, simply select the appropriate project or folder in Solution Explorer, then hit Shift + F2 to create one or more files and folders. The Add New File extension is the fastest and easiest way to add new files to any project – including files that start with a dot. These are the extensions that I use on a daily basis and the first to be installed when spinning up a new dev environment. In this blog post, I’ll share what I consider to be essential extensions. With nearly 2,000 extensions to choose from, we are spoilt for choice! Figure: Most Popular Visual Studio 2022 Extensions | Visual Studio Marketplace

While the default feature set is amazing, it can be enhanced further by using the right extensions. That reduces jumping between files and improves the productivity.Īfter preview the Copilot will definitely be a paid product, but I’m more than happy to pay few bucks a month to improve my productivity even by 1%.For daily development, Visual Studio 2022 IDE is my weapon of choice. You don’t have to leave from code file to search for sample code of how to build business objects correctly so often anymore, because Copilot shows you the sample. Copilot can give code suggestions based on your existing code base and that really improves the productivity, because it reduces the amount of keystrokes you need to do and also finds the code samples for you.

It is not only using GitHub public projects for code suggestions and that makes it so powerful. It learns from your existing code base and starts giving suggestion based on your own code too. You want to use existing classes, methods and services and for that the Copilot works really well. The main selling point for Copilot is that it can write you huge block of codes based on comments or method name, but in real use with existing code base, that is not what you want. Example of Copilot suggestion based on method name and parameters.

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