Visual Studio 2022 offers so many new features that we easily overlook how existing features have been improved. In today's post, I like to point out how "Paste JSON as Classes" got better and better. Pasting XML or JSON as classes exists since Visual Studio 2017. However, in Visual Studio 2022 you can work with complex object graphs that earlier Visual Studios could not handle.
For some problems you need a sequence of numbers. In Python I would use the range() function, while in C# the method Enumerable.Range() gives us what we need. We must specify the starting point and how many numbers we want:
GitHub provides a simple issue tracker with a minimalist user interface. While this minimalism is often an advantage, it does not help the user report the important details to reproduce a bug:
With the .gitignore file we can tell Git to ignore certain types of files (like *.exe) or whole folders. All it takes is an entry like this if we want to ignore the folder database:
Before we conclude this series, let us recapitulate what we learned over the last weeks on dev containers.
.Net 6 runs on Linux and that allows us to create a dev container without any hassle. Let's look what we need to run a minimalistic API project inside a dev container and connect it to the SQL Server we created last week.
Dev containers are not only for old software. They are also a great help when you plan a migration and need a new technology stack. Let's look how SQL Server 2019 works nicely with our dev containers.
After the preparations of the last weeks, it is now time to put everything together and run our Rails application in a dev container.
PostgreSQL is a free and open-source relational database that I use for most of my private database projects. Today we explore the steps to put PostgreSQL into a dev container.
Having a running dev container is a good start, but only when we can write code is it useful. Let’s look how we can use Visual Studio Code to develop inside our container.