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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Braces on new lines in Visual Studio Code
Here there be dragons: Some people prefer their braces on the same line, some prefer them on the next line. If you're in the latter camp then the default in Visual Studio Code will annoy you - it's …
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Using Visual Studio Code, Node.js and gulp.js to create a web application - Handling changes
This is going to be quite a short post, there's not a lot to getting the gulp script to re-process any changed files - but it's a very useful thing to have!
Other parts of this series
Using …
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Generating an SSL certificate with SANs via a Windows Certificate Authority
There are doubtless other ways to generate an SSL certificate through a Windows Certificate Authority which have associated SANs (Subject Alternative Names), but one way I've found is particularly …
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Using Visual Studio Code, Node.js and gulp.js to create a web application - Moving files around
Before I do too much more, I want to setup my build script / project to allow me to (a) make sure that everything in the .dev folder is kept apart from the app folder and set myself up so that I …
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What does "Manual (Trigger Start)" mean for a Windows Service?
There's a selection of different startup types that can be assigned to a Windows Service, at least as seen in the Services MMC snap-in, such as:
Disabled
Manual
Automatic
Automatic (Delayed …
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Using Visual Studio Code, Node.js and gulp.js to create a web application - Serving content
Once we've got the basics of the project setup, npm is working, gulp is installed and ready to go, next up is actually creating a starting gulp script and adding enough to it go get it to serve up …
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Using Visual Studio Code, Node.js and gulp.js to create a web application - Getting started
I've written quite a few posts recently that touch on using Visual Studio Code, Node.js and gulp.js. This is entirely down to having started working on a product that uses all of these, along with …
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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' …