Contents tagged with visual studio
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How to fix NUnit tests that aren't showing in Visual Studio Test Explorer
Every now and then a project I'm working on decides it's either going to not show some or (more annoyingly!) all of the NUnit unit tests that are present.
The most recent project I've seen this …
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Using Azure App Services to host a holding page for a site that's not available
In the first post of this series I put together a .NET Core application that uses Azure Storage (in table form) to keep records of "call me back" requests from customers, so that when the main site …
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Using Azure to provide a holding page for a site that's not available
One of the fantastic things about Azure is how quickly you can spin up, and down, services as and when you need them. In a world where not everything's been migrated to the cloud yet this can be …
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C# 7.1 - Async Main has been around a while now
C# 7.1 has been out in the wild for quite a while (since August 2017 according to Wikipedia!) yet I still see a lot of people on Stackoverflow asking questions where they're hitting the .Result …
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Using the new Microsoft Library Manager to Bootstrap a project
The latest release of Visual Studio 2017 (15.8) comes with Microsoft Library Manager, or LibMan for short, there's also a CLI available and if you want to read about it from the horses mouth …
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Finding the process template for a your TFS 2015 projects
If you're trying to determine what Process Template was used when the projects in a given TFS project collection were created, the quickest way to do this that I've found is to run the following …
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Quick Tip: Stopping a browser from opening when you run a web project in Visual Studio
This one is embarassing. It's something that's annoyed me for years whenever I'm working in a multi-solution/multi-project setup wtih one project for the API and another for the Web UI, e.g. a Web …
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Quick Tip: Running Visual Studio Code for the current directory
Lots of people probably already know this, but there are a couple of ways to open the current directory in an instance of Visual Studio Code. The obvious one is, if you've got a File Explorer window …
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How to debug an AngularJS app in Visual Studio Code with Chrome
I've been using Visual Studio Code quite a bit recently as a project I'm working on is written in AngularJS, with gulp based build scripts. As this is part of my first real foray into using tech that' …
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How to debug gulp tasks in Visual Studio Code - Gulp 4
I recently read an article about debugging gulp tasks in Visual Studio Code, which seemed like mana from heaven for me as I'm now working with nant, npm, gulp scripts, AngularJS and all the …