Visual Studio recent productivity features

Summary

This repo contains a simple console app that demonstrates several codefixes and refactorings in recent Visual Studio versions.

• Clone the repo and follow the comments in the code.
• Check out the Visual Studio Productivity guide for more features!

Features included in tutorial

Features added in Visual Studio 2022 update 17.0

• C# 10.0 File-scoped namespace refactoring
• Refactoring to prefer null check over type check
• XML comments will now automatically generate an <exception> tag when a method explicitly throws exceptions
• Navigate to decompiled sources is now on by default
• Nullable reference types is now enabled by default for new .NET projects
• Inheritance Margin is now enabled by default

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.10

• Remove unused references
• EditorConfig UI
• Visually inspect and navigate the inheritance chain with inheritance margins
• Argument completion in method calls
• Smart Break Line for all type declarations that require braces as well as properties, events, fields, and object creation expressions.
• Simplify LINQ expression refactoring
• Code style preference for new lines
• IntelliSense completion for casts, indexers, and operators
• Debugger support for Source Generators
• Find All References support for Source Generators
• IntelliSense completion for Enum values

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.9

• Automatically add using directives when copying and pasting from a file
• Preprocessor symbols now have IntelliSense completion
• Diagnostic tooltip for pragma warnings or numbers for suppressions
• Use 'new()' in non-contentious scenarios refactoring
• Remove redundant equality code fix
• Convert a regular string and a verbatim string to an interpolated string
• Remove unnecessary discard code fix
• Semantic colorization for C# 9.0 record types
• Comment out new line when return is pressed while cursor is within a comment
• Inline type hints for variables with inferred types and lambda parameter types
• IntelliSense completion that automatically inserts a semicolon as a commit character
• The .NET Code Style (IDE) analyzers can now be enforced on build via project properties
• Go To All will not display duplicate results across netcoreapp3.1 and netcoreapp2.0 as well as results for partial types that exist only to wrap another nested type
• Solution Explorer now displays the new .NET 5.0 Source Generators underneath the Analyzer node so you can easily navigate and view the generated code

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.8

• Remove unnecessary pragma suppressions and SuppressMessageAttribute (Ctrl + .)
• Remove 'in' keyword code fix (Ctrl + .)
• Introduces new C#9 pattern combinators (Ctrl + .)
• Make class abstract code fix (Ctrl + .)
• Interactive window support for multiple runtimes, such as .NET Framework and.NET Core
• New RegisterAdditionalFileAction API that allows analyzer authors to create an analyzer for additional files
• Rename and Find All References now understands references to symbols within the target string of global SuppressMessageAttribute suppressions (Ctrl + R, R) (Shift + F12)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.7

• Add debugger display attribute code fix (Ctrl + .)
• Generate comparison operators for types that implement IComparable (Ctrl + .)
• Generate Equals(object) will generate IEquatable, equals, and not equals operators (Ctrl + .)
• Create and assign properties or fields for all unused constructor parameters (Ctrl + .)
• Code fix for accidental assignments or comparisons to the same variable (Ctrl + .)
• IntelliSense completion in DateTime and TimeSpan string literals (Ctrl + Space)
• Add parameter in Change Signature dialog (Ctrl + .)
• Warning and code fix when a suppression operator is present but has no effect (Ctrl + .)
• Generate properties when generating a constructor (Ctrl + .)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.6

• Add explicit cast (Ctrl + .)
• Convert between regular and verbatim string literals (Ctrl + .)
• Simplify conditional expressions (Ctrl + .)
• Quick info XML style support that contain returns and value tags (Hover over type to see quick info)
• Add file header (Ctrl + .) =======

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.5

• Extract local function (Ctrl + .)
• Simplify interpolated string (Ctrl + .)
• Completion for unimported types and extension methods (Ctrl + space)
• Convert if statement to switch statement or expression (Ctrl + .)
• Make method static (Ctrl + .)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.4

• Configure severity level of a code style rule directly through the editor
• Add null checks for all parameters
• Go to Base (Alt + Home)
• Make a local function static (Ctrl + .)
• Pass variable explicitly in local static function (Ctrl + .)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.3

• Rename a file when renaming a class, interface, or enum (Ctrl + R, R)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.2

• Convert switch statement to switch expresssion (Ctrl + .)
• Generate parameter (Ctrl + .)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.1

• Move Type to Namespace (Ctrl + .)
• Run code cleanup on solution/projects from Solution Explorer (Right-click)
• Toggle block comments (Ctrl + Shift + /)
• Initialize a private field from constructor and vice versa (Ctrl + .)
• Make readonly struct fields writable (Ctrl + .)
• Split/Merge nested if statements (Ctrl + .)
• Regex Completion (Ctrl + space)
• Wrap binary expressions (Ctrl + .)
• Find All References 'Kind' column values for Namespaces and Types
• Code fix to unseal a class (Ctrl + .)

Features added in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.0

• IntelliCode smart completions enabled by default
• IntelliCode repeated edits refactorings (in preview)
• New Roslyn classification colorization!
• Wrap, indent, align parameters (Ctrl + .)
• Use expression/block body for lambda (Ctrl + .)
• Invert conditional expressions and logical operations (Ctrl + .)
• Convert to compound assignment (Ctrl + .)
• Implicitly-typed variables cannot be constant code fix (Ctrl + .)
• Replace @$" with $@" when typing interpolated verbatim string (automatic)
• Categorize references by Read/Write in Find All References window (Shift + F12)
• Automatically close block comment on "/" (automatic)
• Open a csproj by double-clicking on a project in solution explorer (.NET Core only)
• Fix for identified unused expression values and parameters (Ctrl + .)
• Allow Extract Interface to remain in same file (Ctrl R, Ctrl I)
• Pull members up refactoring with dialog options (Ctrl + .)
• Regex parsing support
• Foreach to LINQ query (Ctrl + .)
• Foreach to LINQ method/call form (Ctrl + .)
• Add missing usings on copy paste (Ctrl + .)
• Dead code analysis for unused private members (Ctrl + .)
• Add implied await code fix (Ctrl + .)
• Convert local function to method (Ctrl + .)
• Generate deconstructor (Ctrl + .)
• Convert anonymous type to tuple (Ctrl + .)
• Convert anonymous type to class (Ctrl + .)

Features added in Visual Studio 2017 update 15.8

• Format Document (Ctrl + k, d)
• Code clean-up (Ctrl + k, Ctrl + e)
• Invert if (Ctrl + .)
• Multi-caret (Ctrl + alt + click)
• Convert to conditional expression (Ctrl + .)
• Add parameter at callsite (Ctrl + .)
• Erase extra parenthesis (Ctrl + .)
• For loop to foreach (Ctrl + .)
• Linq to ForEach (Ctrl + .)
• Navigate to Enclosing Block (Shift + Alt + [)
• Go to All Recent Files (Ctrl + t, r)