The Daily Six Pack: May 13, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio Extensions Future The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright and easier, Greg Duncan Other Getting Started with Microsoft Azure, Dirk Strauss Back to Basic – string Vs. String in C#, Abhijit Jana Visual Studio…

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The Daily Six Pack: May 4, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Microsoft Monitors Malicious Android Apps Microsoft to monitor for malicious Android Apps to prevent them from being ported to Windows, Hemant Saxena Other Object Oriented Programming (Software Gardening - Seeds), Craig Berntson Rock Your .NET Coding Standards…

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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code – It has finally happened. Microsoft announced the launch of Visual Studio Code today during its Build Developer conference. Why is this a big deal you might ask? Well Visual Studio Code is a lightweight cross-platform code editor that allows developers to create web and cloud applications that will run natively on OS X, Linux and Windows. (more…)

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Programming Tools For Developers

Programming Tools For Developers

What tools do you use in conjunction with your IDE to extend your capabilities? In the previous article in this series, I looked at how important it was to know your IDE. Did you know that you can show and hide the line numbers in Visual Studio? While this option can be toggled, it got me thinking. I realized that it is also good to know the limitations of your IDE. How many other actions are we as developers performing that can be automated or that can be done more efficiently with a tool? (more…)

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