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• How use Visual Studio, MSBuild or Roslyn previews in GitHub or DevOps CI

  Posted on September 23, 2020

  If you want to leverage the many awesome C# 9 features, including roslyn source generators like ThisAssembly, all of which require the latest and greatest .NET 5.0 preview, it would be a pity to have to give up the safety net of your CI builds (whether GitHub Workflows or Azure DevOps pipelines) just because they don’t provide hosted images with the relevant bits. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • roslyn
  • msbuild
  • ci
  • github
  • devops

• How to generate code using Roslyn source generators in real world scenarios

  Posted on September 17, 2020

  Roslyn (as of 16.8 Preview 3) now brings first-class support for source code generators that run as part of a project compilation. The provided cookbook is a fantastic resource to get to know the capabilities and some specific scenarios this feature was created for. The carefully chosen set of features, driven by concrete scenarios, make for a powerful and flexible toolset to supercharge your nuget packages with. In this blog post I’ll outline how I’m using it, in light of my first real-world use case: ThisAssembly. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • roslyn
  • codegen

• How to customize and publish a docfx site

  Posted on September 9, 2020

  Extending docfx in non-obvious ways for things like changing default icons, styles and scripts, and publishing from CI [Read More]

  Tags:

  • docs
  • docfx

• On Messaging as Extensibility API

  Posted on August 12, 2020

  Back in 2012, I was on a CQRS Journey together with the fine team at Microsoft patterns & practices. We had a great advisory board to discuss and learn from and it was an interesting way to tackle a novel pattern to solve a complex problem. Back then microservices wasn’t even a thing yet, go figure! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code
  • patterns
  • vsx
  • visualstudio

• Central Package Versions

  Posted on July 31, 2020

  How to manage NuGet packages in a central place without resorting to MSBuild SDKs [Read More]

  Tags:

  • tools

• Customizing Windows Terminal with Visual Studio tabs

  Posted on July 21, 2020

  I usually switch between VS versions, powershell and regular command prompt. Having a quick access Windows Terminal tab ready is indispensable: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • tools

• On Visual Studio Extensibility

  Posted on July 18, 2020

  Reflecting on my journey and experiences extending Visual Studio for over 15 years. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code
  • visualstudio

• Developer PowerShell Core Prompt in Visual Studio Code Integrated Terminal

  Posted on January 17, 2020

  Visual Studio recently got a new Developer PowerShell command prompt, which is super useful since it has all the environment variables properly set up to do things like msbuild from command line and have it pick the “right” MSBuild. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code

• Serverless redirection to save us from ugly URLs

  Posted on September 23, 2018

  I’m a fan of CI-independent serverless nuget feeds: you can push packages from arbitrary systems to a single feed that is highly available and requires no maintenance. It can also be made public access (which Azure Artifacts/VSTS still doesn’t allow). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • azure serverless

• How To Install and Cleanup Visual Studio 2017 Instances

  Posted on March 20, 2018

  Visual Studio 2017 allows multiple side by side installations, which makes experimenting with various versions and extensions a breeze. Here's how you quickly and easily install and optionally cleanup so-called 'instances' that may have become broken for whatever reason. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • visualstudio

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