.NET Conf 2019
September 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19.NET Conf 2019, a free, 3-day, virtual developer event
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[Service Fabric] Why won’t Visual Studio connect to my cluster?
June 11, 2019Jun 11, 201906/11/19In this blog post, I’ll discuss something that has frustrated both myself and many others for quite a while, and that is, failure of Visual Studio to connect to an Azure Service Fabric cluster. We’ll be using Visual Studio 2017 as an example.
Developing a Dockerized Asp.Net Core Application Using Visual Studio Code
June 7, 2019Jun 7, 201906/7/19Visual Studio Code offers feature parity with Visual Studio 2017/2019 when it comes to developing a containerized Asp.Net Core application. Since VSCode is cross platform, you can develop your next container DotNetCore application on a Linux or Mac while having access to all the great features that Windows users enjoy on VS2017/2019.
Remediation of old versions of Visual Studio Isolated Shell
March 6, 2019Mar 6, 201903/6/19With this little tidbit of information, we were able to write a powershell script that iterates through a given folder recursively and identifies executables that are dependent on VS Isolated Shell.
Paired Programming & Visual Studio Live Share
January 25, 2019Jan 25, 201901/25/19My first experience matched many of experiences I remember mentioned in the books I read. At first, paired programming was extremely intimidating. I had to pair with an extremely seasoned developer thinking that I was about to be proved that I was not as smart as I thought I was – see Imposter Syndrome. Well, I learned many lessons from this developer by pairing with him. And in the end the developer learned quite a bit from me.
Visualize Code with Visual Studio
May 23, 2018May 23, 201805/23/18In 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. Modeling helps to ensure that requirements are clearly defined between users and IT.
Setting up .NET Core Configuration Providers
April 26, 2018Apr 26, 201804/26/18ASP 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
April 17, 2018Apr 17, 201804/17/18In 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?
SonarLint an extension you can add to an IDE such as Visual Studio that can provide developers real-time feedback on the quality of the code.
Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code
March 27, 2018Mar 27, 201803/27/18In 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
February 26, 2018Feb 26, 201802/26/18In 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.