When we search for a library or a package, we usually have too many options. Which one should we choose? What are good approaches? The less we know about the specific topic, the less we can make a good decision.
That is where awesome lists come to play. They are curated lists by individual developers or community members that selected resources they found especially helpful. That can be packages, blog posts, tutorials, or anything else.
Last week we explored five helpful extensions for Visual Studio. In this post, we will apply the same approach to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). VS Code relies heavily on extensions to provide even the most basic language-specific support within the editor. While we are used to install language specific extensions, we should also look a bit further and try some more general extensions.
Visual Studio 2022 offers a lot of features, and if you use ReSharper from JetBrains, you get even more on top. Nevertheless, there is still room for more extensions that we can find in the Visual Studio Marketplace.
I find the following 5 extensions an immense help. They look boringly simply, but they allow for a highly effective workflow.
A few weeks back we had a database that was stuck in restoring mode, even if we did not try to restore that specific database:
I run into a strange error while trying to clone a Git repository from Azure DevOps on the command line:
Last week we focused on reading RSS and Atom feeds, while this post is all about publishing our own feed. Before you can jump into writing code, you should read up on the different versions of RSS and Atom – especially when you want to use the plain XML approach.
Since there is no more a single social network where we can find all the interesting things that happen in software development, it may be time to go back to the old technologies and revive RSS and Atom feeds. That way at least we can collect the many different blogs into a single source and build up on that.
This year the NDC Oslo conference was a bit earlier than usual and so I went in May to Oslo. That gave me the opportunity to attend the 17th of May parade and experience an overcrowded city centre – quiet a difference to the usual state of the city.
The conference was once more impressive and well organized. It was great to hear that with 2500 attendees this year’s NDC Oslo was back near the record heights.
I started the conference week with a workshop on Designing APIs. While it was good, it did not match the quality of last year's workshop on High Performance .NET Development.
With a year delay I could attend the workshop on Designing APIs by Irina Dominte (Scurtu). As we will soon be starting a major new API project, the timing of the workshop could not have been better.
We decommissioned an older application and for the clean-up phase we had to delete the Windows Services for this application. Uninstalling the services took longer than expected, even if it should be a straightforward action.