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MacOS: starting Visual Studio Code from the finder
On MacOS, a long standing wish from many developers has been to open a folder with Visual Studio Code: [WayBack] Mac OS X :: “Open Folder With” VS Code · Issue #1223 · Microsoft/vscode · GitHub. There...
View ArticleVersion Control in Visual Studio Code: view Git output window
Since the Git output by default is not shown, here is how to enable it: [WayBack] Version Control in Visual Studio Code: Git output window You can always peek under the hood to see the Git commands we...
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Reminder: try to get vscode-restructuredtext to fully work – reStructuredText...
I love Visual Studio Code, but my initial tries to get [WayBack] GitHub – vscode-restructuredtext/vscode-restructuredtext: reStructuredText Language Support in Visual Studio Code to work partially...
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Need to look at monospaced programmers fonts again
At the time of looking, FiraCode would not work in Delphi but would in Visual Studio. Reminder for me to look at it again: [WayBack] GitHub – tonsky/FiraCode: Monospaced font with programming...
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Running Visual Studio Code on macOS from the terminal
For running Visual Studio Code from the terminal, you need to do a few extra steps as from Running Visual Studio Code on macOS: Get Visual Studio Code up and running on Mac (macOS): Launching from the...
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PlantUML – Visual Studio Marketplace
This and built-in markdown support made the switch to Visual Studio code from Atom.io so much easier: [WayBack] PlantUML – Visual Studio Marketplace. Atom.io was already on my list of tools to say good...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code on Mac and Linux can also use the mssql extension
Cool, this works in a Mac and Linux too: mssql extension for VS Code. Links: https://aka.ms/mssql-marketplace https://aka.ms/mssql-getting-started [WayBack] Use the Visual Studio Code mssql extension...
View ArticleEditors (including visual studio code – VSCode): insert tab character...
Sometimes you are in search of a real TAB character, as most editors (except a few like the ones for Golang) I bump into are space-based. A great answer at [WayBack] visual studio code – VSCode insert...
View ArticleA choco install list
Sometimes I forget the choco install mnemonics for various tools, so here is a small list below. Of course you have to start with an administrative command prompt, and have a basic Chocolatey...
View ArticleVS2017 Community .vsconfig file – Visual Studio Community workload and...
When I need to find out what components match my below installed .vsconfig component IDs for Visual Studio 2017 community edition, I can find them in: [WayBack] Visual Studio Community workload and...
View Articlemsbuild build events can inherit, but not add in addition to inherited build...
Bummer: I tried to inherit the build events from a base configuration, then add some extra steps for some of the inheriting configurations. Those configurations just executed the extra steps, not the...
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Getting the path of an XML node in your code editor
A few links for my link archive, as I often edit XML files (usually with different extensions than .xml, because historic choices that software development vendors make, which makes it way harder to...
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Solved: ‘Answering Yes to “You have an older version of PackageManagement...
From a while back: [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: ‘Answering Yes to “You have an older version of PackageManagement known to cause issues with the PowerShell extension. Would you like...
View Article.NET/C# – InvalidCastException for two Objects of the same type (via:...
If you ever get something similar to InvalidCastException: [A]Person cannot be cast to [B]Person. then you are (or more precise: your process is) probably loading the same assembly twice, but from a...
View ArticleHow can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow)
Adapted from [Archive.is] How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? – Stack Overflow, presuming that code is on the PATH: From the command-line interface on MacOS, Linux, BSD or on...
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A short review of a few Visual Studio Code preview extensions
A very short review: [Wayback] Preview – Visual Studio Marketplace Pro: supports many formats (Markdown, ReStructured Text, HTML, Jade, Pug, Image, CSS, Mermaid) Con: preview is not live (Markdown...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet
I come from a background of Delphi, Visual Studio and Notepad++ editors that historically have expanded their functionality over decades of releases. When switching much of my development to Visual...
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Select matching element/rename HTML tag in Visual Studio Code – Stack Overflow
I totally missed that in 2019, the F2 key was enabled to rename HTML tags, but it does: [Wayback/Archive.is] Select matching element/rename HTML tag in Visual Studio Code – Stack Overflow: V1.41 is...
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Troubleshoot black screen or blank screen errors
Via Jan Gentleman, I learned about the Ctrl+⇧ Shift+⊞ Win+B shortcut on Windows 10 and 11 that restarts starts video driver that documentation is in [Wayback/Archive] Troubleshoot black screen or blank...
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