Code Navigation features in Visual Studio 2017

This blog post is a part of Visual Studio 2017 New feature Series

TL;DR:

With Visual Studio 2017 there are lots of new Code Navigation features introduced. We are going to look all the options available in Visual Studio 2017.

Navigation your code with Visual studio 2017:

Visual Studio 2017 have newly refreshed code navigation features which help you moving from point A to B easily and fewer distractions. There are mainly four new features available.

Go to Implementation(Ctrl+F12):

It helps you navigate from any base type to implementation of the concrete type.

Go To Line(Ctrl+G):

It helps moves cursor from current line to specified line number.

Go To All(Ctrl+T):

It helps you navigate directly to any file/type/symbol/member. You can move from any files to anywhere with this feature easily.

Go To File(Ctrl+ 1, Ctrl + F):

You can easily navigate between files with this feature.

Go To Type(Ctrl+1, Ctrl + F):

You can move to any type with this feature. It searches classes/interfaces/enums and delegates and moves your current cursor selected type.

Go To Member(Ctrl+ 1, Ctrl + M):

You can move between members for a particular class. It searches Global Variables and Global Functions, Class Member variables and member functions, Constants, Enum items, Properties, and events.

Go to Symbol(Ctrl + 1, Ctrl + S):

You can move to any symbols, search result includes Go to Type and Go to Member.

Find All References(Shift + F12):

In the earlier version of Visual Studio Find All References was the plain list without any syntax highlighting and coloring. Now with Visual Studio 2017 it has got coloring and splits all the information into their respective columns. This column can be also customized so you will only see what you want to see in Find All References Window.



So Visual Studio 2017 now got lots of features and that will make code navigation very easy. It will definitely increase developer productivity and made life easy.

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A new start page for Visual Studio 2017

This blog post is a part of Visual Studio 2017 New feature Series

Recently Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio 2017 and as usual, there are tons of features available with Visual Studio 2017. Visual Studio has always been one of my favorite IDE. We are going to look into all the features one by one. The first thing when you launch a New instance of the Visual studio will launch a start page. So in this blog post, we are going to explore what’s new in start page of Visual Studio 2017.

A new start page for visual studio 2017

The first thing once you load visual studio 2017 will have a start page. It has been divided into three columns. The first column contains Get Started and Recent sections. The second column contains Open Project and New Project section and the third column contains Developer new section. By default when you load Visual Studio it looks like following.

Get Started and Recent Section of Start Page:

Get Started section of Visual Studio 2017 contains how you can get started with Visual Studio. It contains a variety of links including how to get started with Visual studio to how to extend visual studio.



The recent section contains recently open projects. It is divided into two part Today and Last week. Today section contains the link to the project that is opened today in Visual Studio.  Last week section contains projects that are used during last week.

Open and New Project Section:

The open section contains four things.

1. A link to connect Visual Studio team services from where you can directly connect to a team services project and open it from there.
2. Open Project/Solution: - Open project or solution works in same as the earlier version of Visual Studio. It open project or solution available on your computer.
3. Open Folder: - It will open a folder available on your computer and then display all the code files available in that particular folder.
4. Open Web Site: This works same as earlier of Visual Studio. It opens an ASP.NET Web Sites available on your local computer.

New Project is brand new in Visual Studio 2017. By default, it shows the recent project's templates you recently used and also there is search box to search the templates available in Visual studio 2017.


Even you search templates via putting some text in the search box like following.


So now to create a new solution or project you don’t have go to file menu. You can directly create a new project from start page itself.

Developer News Section:

This developer new section contains new feeds from various sites.

Customize Start page in Visual Studio 2017:

Like earlier edition of Visual Studio, you can also customize the start page of Visual Studio 2017. There is an option available for the same under Tools-> Options menu. Select environment and Goto Startup following dialog will come.




Here you configure options like At startup what should be shown. You can also setup time to download the content of developer news. Also, you can also use customize start page.

That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!!.

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New Blog theme- new technologies

This blog has been quite for the some time. I was busy doing some professional commitments but now I decided to write blog post regularly. As there are lots of interesting stuff happening in technology world. There are tons of new technologies coming up and lots of new things to learn.

New blogger theme:

Recently blogger.com has launched few new theme and I also decided to have new blogger theme on my blog. I have used “Contempo” theme for my blog. This time I have done some experiments I have not changed anything except the background feature. Let’s see how it goes with SEO and other stuff.  Here is new look of my blog.



Hope you will like it.

New Technologies to blog :

There are lots of stuff happening in technology and I started learning those technologies and I’m going to share my learning experience with you guys for sure. So do except blog post on following topics.

1. Visual Studio 2017
2. ASP.NET Core 1.1
3. C# 7.0
4. Entity Framework Core
5. .NET Core cross platform
6. Docker
7. Node.js
8. Golang
9. SQL Server 2016
10. MongoDB
11. Azure and Different Azure services
12. Angular 2/4.
13. React
14. Vue.js

I outlines few of technologies there but still there are lots of happening so Please put your comments that what technologies I should learn and blog about.

As always, Again thank you very much for the your support and love. Without your support this blog would have not have been exist. Thanks all as always.

Happy blogging and journey continues.

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