Visual Studio IntelliCode – AI For your Code

use intellicode to power visual studio

Visual Studio IntelliCode allows you to add the power of artificial intelligence to your code. Enabling IntelliCode is super easy, and I'm going to show you exactly how to do this. LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE? TRY THESE LINKS INSTEAD: Extension Methods Are Easy with C# Struggling With Imposter Syndrome? How To

South African Cities And Provinces – A Complete List

Find a list of South African Cities

South African Cities - Are you looking for a complete list of South African Cities along with their provinces? Well, good luck with that. I spent the most part of my Saturday searching for a comprehensive list (which I didn't find). Looking for something else? Try these links instead: Query Stack Overflow

Asynchronous Programming Succinctly Published

Asynchronous Programming Succinctly

Asynchronous Programming Succinctly Unresponsive or sluggish applications can give the impression of a broken or low-quality app. Using asynchronous programming methods, apps can be made to function well even when performing other tasks. I was fortunate enough to work with Syncfusion to publish Asynchronous Programming Succinctly. I show devs how to

Operation Not Legal in the Current State – Debugging ASP.NET Core

Operation Not Legal in the Current State

Operation Not Legal in the Current State - The other evening I was playing around with an ASP.NET Core application. When I started debugging it, I immediately saw an error message pop up that said Unable to start program '[http]://localhost:59676/'. An operation is not legal in the current state. It was a bit

Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects

Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects

Visual Studio Installer Projects - The one thing that frustrates me a bit (other than iTunes) is how often the Visual Studio installer projects change from version to version. As of this writing there is no project template for Visual Studio 2017. Visual Studio Installer Projects Incompatible I was working on a project

EncryptValidate Code Encryption – My First NuGet Package

EncryptValidate Code Encryption

EncryptValidate Code Encryption - NuGet is something that I'm sure all of you have used before. I decided to package and publish my own NuGet package. It's nothing fancy, it's just a simple encryption dll that will encrypt data. It also validates encrypted data. Among the other methods, it decrypts data

Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017

Live Unit Testing

Live Unit Testing has become a reality with the release of Visual Studio 2017. The next iteration of Microsoft's world-class IDE which was released on the 7th of March 2017, has given developers a host of new and exciting features (a new-ish feature C# Interactive being a favorite of mine). Check