Moving away from Visual Studio to JetBrains Rider
The post describes JetBrains Rider as an alternate to Visual Studio and how Rider can help mitigate some of the Visual Studio pain-points.
Category: Visual Studio
Running an ASP.NET Core application against multiple DB providers – Part 2
Different approaches we considered to set up integration tests when running against multiple DB providers in ASP.NET Core
Productivity Tip – Improve your Visual Studio performance with ReSharper
Visual Studio is my bread and butter. It has played an important role in shaping my career. In the same breath, ReSharper has helped a lot to improve my productivity and make me a better programmer. And I’m sure there are many others like me who use Visual Studio and ReSharper on a daily basis.
Override appSettings during development – .NET Core
Sometime back, I had written about how to override appSettings during development in traditional ASP.NET application. Recently, we started development of a ASP.NET Core application and had a similar challenge. Our developers work on different operating systems (Windows and Mac). They have different local connection strings and application settings. We had a same problem as
Using Visual Studio Team Services to manage my ToDo
I’m quite an unorganized person. I spend most of my time in front of a computer in my office or in meetings. At home, I’m usually busy with my 2-year old or household chores. As a result, my list of ToDo items keeps on growing. And when I do find some time to work on
Test your app across the browsers through BrowserStack
Testing your applications cross-platform and cross-browser is not an easy problem to solve. Supporting different versions, operating systems and devices can be an extremely frustrating and time-consuming process. It can be especially painful if you need to support legacy browsers like IE 9 or IE 8.
Override appSettings during development
It is a fairly common scenario that during development the local machine configuration settings for different developers in are not same and it may not match with the default value in source control. One such example can be SQL server connection string. Some developers may have SQL Express installed, others may have a named instance
Tools and tricks that can help you code better and faster
Tools and tricks you can use along with Visual Studio to make your life easy as a developer:
TFS User – Why you need to switch to Git
Not too long ago, TFS and SVN were the only source control I had used. I had a very little experience of distributed source controls like Git. So when I got an opportunity to work on Git on a large scale project for the first time, I had my doubts. But, it did not take
VS 2017 – Revamped Start Page
When you open VS, the first thing that you notice is the Start Page. In VS 2015 the Start Page provided a useful way to open recent projects, look into tech news. But this is where it stopped. VS 2017 has totally revamped the Start Page experience. It is visually more appealing and offers more options
Visual Studio 2017 – The best IDE ever
Visual Studio 2017 was launched with much fan fare yesterday (March 7, 2017). I started exploring Visual Studio 2017 from RC and I must say, after using VS 2017 I felt I was earlier leaving in stone age. It is so much better. In short the Visual Studio 2017 is equivalent to following: VS 2017
Dispose HttpClient or have a static instance?
Recently, I came across this blog post from ASP.NET Monsters which talks about correct using HttpClient. The post talks about issues of related to disposing HttpClient object for each request. As per the post calling HttpClient as below can lead to issues.
Gulp with Visual Studio
Recently, I worked on a ASP.NET 4.6 MVC 5 project which didn’t have anything MVC about it. 🙂 It was a Single Page Application built on TypeScript, Knockout JS, CSS. Now, since it we didn’t have any server side code, we decided to give Gulp a try to concatenate and minify the JS and CSS