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Posted on May 10, 2023

How to Use Visual Studio Like a Pro When Presenting Your Code

Visual Studio is great to write code and create something amazing, but sometimes, you may want to use it for a different purpose: presenting your code to an audience. Whether you are giving a demo, a workshop, a lecture, or a webinar, you want to make sure that your audience can see and understand your code clearly. That's where Presentation Mode comes in.

Presentation Mode is a feature that lets you open an instance of Visual Studio that looks like a fresh install, without any customizations, extensions, or settings synchronization. This way, you can avoid any distractions or confusion that may arise from your personal preferences or environment. You can then adjust any settings that are relevant for your presentation, such as font sizes, themes, window layouts, and keyboard shortcuts. These settings will be preserved for the next time you use Presentation Mode.

How to Enter Presentation Mode

There are two ways of entering Presentation Mode in Visual Studio: with an extension or from command prompt without extensions.

With the extension

The easy way is to install the Tweaks extension and open any solution, project, or file in Visual Studio. Now you can right-click the Visual Studio icon in the Windows task bar and select Presentation Mode .

This will launch a new instance of Visual Studio with the default settings and no extensions (other than machine-wide ones). You can then open your solution or project and start presenting.

From Command Prompt

You can do the same thing yourself if you don't want to install the extension. Open the Developer Command Prompt or Developer PowerShell and execute the following line:

This will launch a new instance of Visual Studio with the root suffix PresentationMode. You can swap the word PresentationMode with whatever other word you want to create yet another isolated instance type. This can be helpful for scenarios where you need different settings based on the kind of project you are working on. For instance, you might prefer specific extensions and window layouts only for web development. This allows you to have that versatility.

How to Customize Presentation Mode

Once you have entered Presentation Mode, you can customize any settings to configure Visual Studio for your presentation style. Here are some common settings that you may want to change:

• Font sizes : You can change the font sizes for the Text Editor, Environment, Tooltips, Statement Completion, and more from Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors . A good rule of thumb is to use at least 18 points for the Text Editor and 12 points for the Environment.
• Theme : You can change the theme from Tools > Options > Environment > General . You may want to choose a theme that matches your presentation slides or has good contrast for your audience.
• Window layout : You can change the window layout from Window > Reset Window Layout . You may want to minimize or close any tool windows that are not relevant for your presentation, such as Solution Explorer, Output, Error List, etc. You can also use Window > Auto Hide All to hide all tool windows until you hover over them.
• Keyboard shortcuts : You can change the keyboard shortcuts from Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard . You may want to use the default keyboard shortcuts or choose a scheme that matches your audience's expectations.

These settings will be saved for the next time you use Presentation Mode. If you want to reset them to the default values, you can use Tools > Import and Export Settings > Reset all settings ¹.

How to Exit Presentation Mode

To exit Presentation Mode, simply close the instance of Visual Studio that you used for presenting. This will not affect your normal instance of Visual Studio or any other instances with different root suffixes.

Presentation Mode is a handy feature that lets you use Visual Studio in a clean and distraction-free way for presenting your code to an audience. It allows you to customize any settings that are relevant for your presentation style, such as font sizes, theme, window layout, and keyboard shortcuts. These settings will be preserved for the next time you use Presentation Mode. To enter Presentation Mode, you can either use the Tweaks extension or the Developer Command Prompt or PowerShell. To exit Presentation Mode, simply close the instance of Visual Studio that you used for presenting. I hope this article has helped you learn how to use Visual Studio in Presentation Mode and how to make your code presentations more effective and engaging.

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My 2c on these changes:

1.Stage and Commit During Build: Not very useful to me. What would be more useful is to automatic staging all changes into a temporary index (git –index-file=Temp.index add .), then make a temporary commit, similar to what a stash does internally, but without undoing all changes (git –index-file=Temp.index write-tree; git commit-tree), and set this commit ID to the build environment. The build script would be able to refer to this exact snapshot, or embed the commit ID into the binary. You can also write a line into the reflog upon a successful build.

(When I was doing kernel driver development, I was using Git repository as the source server. I had a script to embed the source file information into a driver executable, and a script for WinDBG to fetch the source blobs by their SHA1 from Git repository).

2. Staging from diff still has bug: The wire frame for large added/deleted areas sometimes get out of sync. Also, the wire frames+button often stop showing, need to open another diff window. This happens most likely because of ill-conceived “optimization” – pre-calculated view position for those areas. Which doesn’t make sense, because the diff colors are calculated on the fly, which means the diff areas can be figured out from the diff itself. This was reported long time ago, but seems not pass the treage.

3. Multi-branch graph is pretty useful. What would make the repository view better: better width for commit (actually author) date column, and/or remembering the column width. Note that a branch history window has much more sensible width for this column.

History view of any given branch would also benefit if arranging the lines in parent order: first parent lineage always to the left. This will help to visualize the merged lineage vs main history.

4. Git log speed improvements are supposedly implemented. But it doesn’t seem to have implement the most obvious would be most helpful improvement: cache the commits! It appears it has to read those commits over and over.

Also: Why multi-repository support doesn’t automatically open the submodules? It’s sorely needed.

Hello Jessie, thanks for all of this feature. I’m a little single developer but for me clean code and implementation of new features and technologies are more than a good practice…it’s a life philosophy. Now I try to implement the reference GitHub issues inside Visual Studio without no success. Simply the “#” doesn’t appear and if I try to put “#” in the message nothing appear. If I go to the menù “Git-GitHub” the voice “View Pull request” is grayed out. Please note that I have 18 projects in my solution with 7 different repositories (Visual could manage more than 1 repository…fantastic!). At the beginning when I create the solution I add the git init command by hand in the powershell…maybe could be this thing even if permit me to use GitHub as source control system doesn’t permit to manage the GitHub iusses? The most strange thing is that if I open a new Visual Studio instance and I clone the existing repository from GitHub (with exactly the same files) it appears without any problem but it take only one repository and not 7 (infact I can’t start my application because some projects aren’t load). Can you tell me how to solve this problem? My Visual Studio version is: 17.8.3

Hi Gianluca, I’m sorry to hear some of these features aren’t working for you. Can you help us track and resolve this issue by using the Send Feedback > Report a Problem buttons in the upper right corner of Visual Studio? It’ll share some logs with us and take you to https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/VisualStudio where we can engage with you to solve the problem.