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6 Steps to Automate Publishing a VSIX Extension with DevOps

Austen — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 01:03:55 +0000

Azure Pipeline Use Azure DevOps Extension Tasks to Add a Visual Studio Extension Publishing Task to Your pipeline. Microsoft recently released the Azure DevOps Extension Tasks tool for Azure DevOps that makes it easy to add a Visual Studio Extension publishing task to a pipeline, but I wasn’t able to find any layman’s documentation on…

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Microsoft Development Technologies Demystified

Joshua — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:30:01 +0000

Crash Courses in Current Development Technologies Watch our free videos for a crash course on current development technologies. Mark Michaelis speaks at IntelliTect’s recent Visual Studio 2019 event. Last month, we held an event to provide updates and training on the latest development technologies from Microsoft. We’d like to share the content. Click the links…

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Visual Studio 2019 Refactoring Galore (Video)

Mark Michaelis — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:40:15 +0000

Now’s the time to switch to Visual Studio 2019 (VS 2019) Check out my video that was recorded at our Visual Studio 2019 event and get a crash course on the new features of VS 2019. I recommend watching the full video (above) for an in-depth explanation of Visual Studio 2019 features. If you’re looking…

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What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 (Slides)

Mark Michaelis — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:58:58 +0000

New Features Curious about the new features in Visual Studio 2019? I recently gave a talk that has the answers you need. I break down the new features of Visual Studio at Techorama, 2019. Recently, I traveled to the Netherlands to talk about the new features of Visual Studio 2019 at Techorama, Netherlands a great…

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Fix Your Git Credential Nightmare in 4 Basic Steps

Grant Erickson — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:05:11 +0000

Struggling to get Git to connect to VisualStudio.com? Here’s a possible solution: Tip: A proxy/firewall can be one of the causes of this frustration. A big shout out to Andrew Scott for working on this with me. 1. Install the Git Credential Manager for Windows Go to https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/releases, or you can also get this from…

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Fixing System Value Tuple Error

Mark Michaelis — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:45:06 +0000

Error: “Predefined Type ‘System.ValueTuple’ is not defined or imported” As soon as you start programming tuples in C# 7.0, you are likely to encounter the compiler error, “Predefined type ‘System.ValueTuple’ is not defined or imported.” This issue is easily corrected. When encountered, the error will look like this on the code editor: The issue is…

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Creating a Fody Add-in

Kevin Bost — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 05:02:22 +0000

Using the Fody Framework to Create IL Weavers Fody is a fantastic framework for creating IL weavers. For those who are unfamiliar with IL weaving, it is the art (and at times a seemingly magical incantation) of modifying an assembly post-compile. In this article we will walk through creating a library that can modify an…

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Reducing Boilerplate Code with ReSharper Templates

Kevin Bost — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:54:10 +0000

Get Rid of Boilerplate Code with Code Templates We all like to be efficient. One of the easiest ways I have found to reduce basic code is by using a feature in ReSharper called Code Templates. There are several different types of templates, but I would like to highlight the live templates. For these examples…

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How I Became A Vim Rockstar In Visual Studio

Kelly — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:32:29 +0000

A Brief History Lesson As a software developer, we spend a lot of our time using text editors. Most text editors follow the Emacs standard that harkens all the way back to the 1970s and the venerable PDP-10. Emacs’ WYSIWYG style of editing is best suited to a stream-of-consciousness and linear style of editing. The…

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Suspend and Resume in Visual Studio Using TFS

Tom — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:39:24 +0000

Exploring Suspended Work In order to keep our release builds as bug-proof as possible, our development team expects that code reviews are to be completed before checking in the code changes. This presents a problem with Pending Changes in Visual Studio. Let’s say I modify a few files for a particular user story or bug.…

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Relative Paths for Visual Studio Generic Tests

Mark Michaelis — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 02:26:38 +0000

Creating a Generic Test To make generic tests robust enough to run for all developers on your team and on the build server, you are likely going to want to avoid hard coding the path to the executable. To do this successfully, you need to have a list of all the environment variables that are…

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