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Visualize Code with Visual Studio

Premier DeveloperMay 23, 2018May 23, 201805/23/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Ed Tovsen spotlight the features and benefits of Code Maps in Visual Studio.

Systems architects have long used modeling to design the structure, behavior, and interaction of systems within an organization.

Setting up .NET Core Configuration Providers

Premier DeveloperApril 26, 2018Apr 26, 201804/26/18

ASP Core uses the convenient Provider Pattern to load configuration key/value pairs from various sources and expose those to you as a single Configuration object. This allows you to grab a configuration key like ConnectionString with one line of code regardless of where it was sourced from. However, the configuration API is not available by default in .NET Core Console applications.

Real-time Code Quality with SonarLint in Visual Studio

Premier DeveloperApril 17, 2018Apr 17, 201804/17/18

In the second part of her SonarQube series, Premier Developer Consultant Sana Noorani builds on top of SonarQube technology and explains how SonarLint can be added in Visual Studio to track real time code quality.

What is SonarLint?

Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code

Premier DeveloperMarch 27, 2018Mar 27, 201803/27/18

In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard discusses how to set up Visual Studio 2017 to run JavaScript-based unit tests.

This week, I demonstrated to a client how they could write unit tests in JavaScript to test their JavaScript code by leveraging Karma,

Git in Education

Pam LahoudFebruary 26, 2018Feb 26, 201802/26/18

In this post, Premier Developer consultant Brian Blackman introduces one of our training offerings – the Microsoft Git Solutions workshop.

With Premier Support for Developers, our customers have access to many resources including education. Case in point is our Microsoft Git Solutions workshop.

Visual Studio App Center

Pam LahoudJanuary 5, 2018Jan 5, 201801/5/18

This overview of Visual Studio App Center comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Sana Noorani.

One of Microsoft’s newest offerings, the Visual Studio App Center, is a tool for streamlining the DevOps pipeline for mobile development.

Visual Studio Shortcuts and Add on Tools

Pam LahoudNovember 13, 2017Nov 13, 201711/13/17

This post from Premier Developer consultant Crystal Tenn walks you through customizing Visual Studio to work better for you and your organization.

I like tools that make my development faster and more organized. The small amount of time it takes to invest in installing and learning these tools pays off in the long run!

Debugging ASP Core on Linux with Visual Studio 2017

Premier DeveloperNovember 10, 2017Nov 10, 201711/10/17

NET Core and specifically ASP Core is an Open Source, High Performance implementation of .NET that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. After you deploy your web application to a Linux server it can be difficult to troubleshoot when issues arise. In this article, I’ll show you how to configure your Linux test server and Development environment to allow remote debugging giving you all the greatness of debugging in Visual Studio while your code is running on a Linux server.

Should I Use Visual Studio 2017 or VS Code For My Next Angular Application?

Pam LahoudOctober 19, 2017Oct 19, 201710/19/17

This post on using Visual Studio to develop Angular applications comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh.

I engage with a lot of our customers that work on Angular applications and I frequently get asked the following question: Should we use Visual Studio 2017 or VS Code for our next application?