I wrote several howto's about using UEFI EDK2 framework with Visual Studio IDE. I think it is a good idea to connect powers of both Visual Studio and EDK2 together. Please note that these articles are on Russian.

Part 1. Setting up EDK2 framework wth Visual Studio

Part 2. Console I/O in UEFI, speed up EDK2 modules compilation and debug in Visual Studio environment

Part3. HII Front Page localization