Tools and Skills for .NET 8

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Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor

This chapter is about going beyond using the basic file management and editing tools in your code editor. We will look at the three most common code editors or interactive development environments (IDEs): Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains Rider. After introducing them, I will mostly refer to them by shorter names: Visual Studio, Code, and Rider.

You only need to read the sections for the code editor that you use, although I recommend becoming familiar with them all while you are taking the opportunity to learn new things.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Introducing common tools and features
• Tools in Visual Studio 2022
• Tools in Visual Studio Code
• Decompiling .NET ...