Visual Basic® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 53. Advanced IDE Features

In This Chapter

• Exporting Templates

• Customizing Visual Studio 2012

• Managing User Settings

• Customizing the Toolbox

• Using, Creating, and Managing Reusable Code Snippets

• Managing Libraries with NuGet

The Visual Studio 2012 integrated development environment is a powerful application and is not a simple code editor. In previous chapters, especially in Chapter 2, “Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2012 IDE,” you learned about some important features and tools that make your development experience easier. In this chapter, you learn about other interesting features and instrumentations that are not necessarily related with code writing but provide advanced control over the environment and in most ...