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Use Visual C++ for Linux to build and debug C++ code on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Rich Turner
I first learned about Visual C++ for Linux, which was released in March 2016, shortly before the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first announced. I was immediately blown away by how VERY cool this feature of Visual Studio is! What's insanely cool about this feature is that when the project is built, VS opens an SSH channel to a target...

Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

January 4, 2017 Jan 4, 2017 01/4/17
Rich Turner
This post is in response to a story published on December 6th 2016 by ComputerWorld titled "Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt" and its follow-up article "Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all". These "stories" were subsequently picked up by Business Insider and Life Hacker among others and fueled a number of concerned Tweets some of ...

Hanselman takes a tour around Bash on Windows

July 1, 2016 Jul 1, 2016 07/1/16
Rich Turner
If you're anything like me, you're already overloaded with work/studies & life, and there's just never enough time to go and dig into all the awesome new open-source projects, cool new tools, exciting new languages & platforms, and any amount of other technology that appears almost hourly these days. Wouldn't it be great if someone ...