Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter covered some important features about customizing Visual Studio 2015. It started by explaining how to export both projects and items templates, then moved to customizing the IDE by providing additional commands to the Tools menu and customizing existing toolbars or adding new ones. Then it described how you can work with settings including synchronized settings and how to export and import Visual Studio settings to disk. You learned about making custom window layouts to organize your workspace according to the project type you work with. You then saw how to leverage code snippets seeing how they can improve the way you write code by creating your code library and using the Visual Studio code snippets library. Finally, you ...