Why do 90% of the Visual Studio Tools and Extensions make it so hard to update…
Worth repeating my [WayBack] Friday developers rant… Why do 90% of the Visual Studio Tools and Extensions make it so !@#$!@#$ hard to update.… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+: Why do 90% of the...
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Some useful Visual Studio Keyboard bindings – via my comment at “Allow for...
The thread at [WayBack]: Allow for floating windows · Issue #10121 · Microsoft/vscode · GitHub made me discover a few things, which I have commented there. Reminder to self: find the Windows keyboard...
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Visual Studio – Add File As Link
Since I forget where they hid the [WayBack] Visual Studio – Add File As Link feature, two images from the linked post: The icon in the link is different from the normal file: Adding as a link is not a...
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Pretty printing HTML is the same as formatting code: How do you format code...
I was looking for a HTML pretty printer (…) but in Visual Studio code, that is called code formatting, which supports many languages out of the box (including HTML) without requiring extensions like...
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.net – How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl file – Stack...
Since I always forget that you can add a service reference by hand-pasting the full path to a local WSDL file, then hit Go: [WayBack] .net – How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl...
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When Google Search returns one link twice in the results, thinking it was...
I laughed when https://www.google.com/#q=visual%20studio%20code%20indent%20settings%20per%20file%20type got me the first link twice (see below screenshot). But I was glad that that link to [WayBack]...
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Creating a full off-line installation directory for Visual Studio 2017 Community
Steps: mkdir C:\Installs\VS2017Community\VS2017CommunityLayout pushd C:\Installs\VS2017Community bitsadmin.exe /transfer "VS2017CommunityBootstrap" https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_community.exe...
View Articlefrom a WSDL import: empty “Reference.cs”– Google Search
A search for empty “Reference.cs” – Google Search seems to indicate this happens with referenced types that – despite turning off that option – from the Visual Studio 2017 IDE sometimes results in an...
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Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman
By now this should be out of [WayBack] Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman: a list of common terms to describe various parts of the .NET ecosystem. He has a nice list of sentences where...
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No, Visual Studio Community 2017 is not a 30 day trial – via Stack Overflow
Visual Studio Community 2017 needs a license renewal every ~30 days with a Microsoft account: [WayBack] Visual Studio Community 2017 is a 30 day trial? – Stack Overflow. This means it is not a trial,...
View ArticleVisual Studio direct download links
For my link archive: All downloads: https://code.visualstudio.com/ Direct Windows download: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=win64user or https://aka.ms/win32-x64-user-stable Direct macOS...
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual Studio – Wikipedia
Like there was never an Office 13.0, there was no Visual Studio 13.0: see the below table from Microsoft Visual Studio – Wikipedia: History This influences tooling that searches for specific versions...
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Visual Studio: show whitespace and configure spaces instead of tabs
As I always forgets this and fresh Visual Studio installations favour tabs over spaces, here is how to get it into sane mode: show whitespace: [WayBack] Jeff Widmer’s Blog – How to show white space in...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code direct download links
Visual Studio Code download links: product web page code.visualstudio.com Downloads platform web page download Windows code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=win64user go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Linkid=852157 or...
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Mads Kristensen on Twitter: “Visual Studio Tip: A blue dot in the margin...
[WayBack] Mads Kristensen on Twitter: “Visual Studio Tip: A blue dot in the margin indicates a switch of threads while stepping through debugging. #vstip… “ –jeroen Visual Studio Tip: A blue dot in the...
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[WayBack] visual studio code – Does the “editorWhitespace.foreground” workbench.colorCustomizations setting in VSCode actually work? – Stack Overflow Yes, it does. But after reading [WayBack]...
View ArticleUse the Visual Studio Code mssql extension for SQL Server | Microsoft Docs
Since I really want to switch most of my SSMS usage to a tool being less resource intensive, as a truckload of my work is just running scripts, not browsing through data: [WayBack] Use the Visual...
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NuGet: migrate from packages.config to PackageReference with 3 clicks
Since I often forget to cleanup some bits of a migration: [WayBack] Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks: Related: [WayBack] Migrating NuGet Packages.config to PackageReference in Visual Studio...
View Articleemulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files...
Me at [WayBack] emulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files added by Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Stack Overflow: Since after uninstalling the “Visual Studio...
View ArticleHow to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge...
On my research list for Visual Studio 2017 and up: [WayBack] How to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge Assemblies? – Stack Overflow –jeroen
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