If you spend your days writing C# in Visual Studio, learning Visual Studio shortcuts is one of the best things you can do. Every second you reach for the mouse is a second lost. In fact, once you lock these key combos into muscle memory, your whole workflow speeds up.…
Mastering Visual Studio 2017 – If you are new to Visual Studio (or even if you have used Visual Studio from the beginning) there is a fantastic book authored by Kunal Chowdhury that belongs on every good developer’s bookshelf. The book titled Mastering Visual Studio 2017 (get it on Amazon) is a page turner, and definitely makes for very good reading. (more…)
Being Almost Blind – Some of you might have noticed that the updates to this blog have been a little sparse the past two weeks. There is however a good explanation for this. On Friday, October 2nd I woke up and noticed that I could no longer see properly. I saw everything around me, but when I looked directly at something (especially on a computer screen), all I saw was a white mist. The reality of my situation quickly began to sink in. (more…)
Devart Code Compare is a really awesome tool for developers to use. It integrates seamlessly into Android Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and naturally, Visual Studio. It has also built-in support for the following popular source control systems: TFS, SVN, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. Today I'm going to look at the standalone…
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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