Tools that I use for development.
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Please visit me and read this article at AlignedDev.I had the honor and pleasure of giving my first presentation at an event at South Dakota Code Camp last weekend on November 7th. Thanks to the organizers and sponsors, I’m looking forward to next year already. I talked about the importance of Continuous Delivery in today’s development practices and how it helps us get quality code to our users quicker and more reliably using automated processes. Microsoft’s build system has improved immensely in ......
I just found out a new to me tool, that’s been around for a long time, that could be very useful. It’s called Problem Steps Recorder. Go to the start menu and type in “psr” and hit enter. This pulls up a helpful tool that will take screen shots and let you enter comments to send for a bug report. I’ve found it in Windows 7, but it looks like it is in Windows 8 as well ......
It took awhile to find the right NuGet package to use to create and decode a QR code, but we found it. The ZXing.Net port of the Java version turned out to be quick and easy to use. Scott Hanselman had an example of decoding a QR code in his blog, and I adapted the code from the ZXing.Net site and his to create this LinqPad demo. Fire up the great LinqPad program, change to C# statements, add in the Nuget package and the correct namespaces. Then hit F5. You can now generated and decode that information ......
On the back of the latest MSDN magazine (March 2015) : There was a link to Syncfusion's community license for its controls. This free license that can be used to "build commercial applications", has a $9,975 value, 12 platforms, and 650 controls. This might be useful for your next project. You have to put in an email and phone, but I already have an account with them. They did try to call and I did get an email after I downloaded their Resharper Succinctly guide. They have a lot of other nice resources ......
I found ClipX a few years ago and have used it every day since. The ability to have a searchable history of copied text and images from a hot key (I use ctrl+shift+z) has been invaluable. It’s saved me a lot of time where I can just search for something I copied earlier in the day or even yesterday. It hasn’t been updated since 2008, but still works on my Windows 7 machine. Visual Studio has this with ctrl+shift+v, but I like to have this anywhere in Windows. I’d be open to a newer piece of software, ......
I’m a fan of Codealike and run with their extension while I’m in Visual Studio. It tracks a surprising amount of data on which projects I’m working on, where in the code, time spent building, code languages used, focus, web sites visited to help you gauge productivity (if you let it), many new features in 2014, and they’re even trying to measure technical debt. There’s more there then I have to too look at often, but the premium access (which they gave me 3 months free, thanks CodeAlike!) has a lot ......
I was watching part of Using TypeScript for Large Angular JS Applications on TypeScript. In the SourceMaps and TypeScript section, Justin Schwarty mentions that ctrl+p in the Chrome Dev Tools will pull up a list of files (css, js) that you can debug against. This is similar to the ctrl + comma in Visual Studio (or ctrl + t with Resharper). Hopefully, you’re already aware of this, but for me it will be a huge time server. I’ve searched through the tree of files far too often. The official shortcuts ......
enable package restore on solution Nuget Ninject.MVC3 (pre-release available?) * adds Ninject, Ninject.Web.Common, Ninject.Web.Mvc * App_Start/NinjectWebCommon.cs -> has WebActivator.PreApplication... attribute -> runs at startup add interface and class for testing (IBikeManager and BikeManager) add controller constructor to HomeController that takes in the interface - run website => Error "Error activating IBikeManager No matching bindings are available, and the type is not self-bindable. ......
I was able to go to another great year of HDC 13 at the beginning of September (on Twitter #hdc13). Our company sent 8 of us down for the Thursday and Friday (thanks for investing in us!). The main theme I got from the conference was to get out and build an app or with the “internet of things” figure out how things work and look into Arduino and connecting for outside control. How do we use of skills for good as well? The Bing platform looks very promising. There were also some Windows 8.1 demos ......
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