Background With the introduction of .NET core some time back, Visual Studio got two different project systems. Along with this, we also got two different formats for a ‘csproj’ file. Continue Reading →
This post came about as a result of a an interesting question raised by my good friend Richard Hundhausen in Accentient. It turned out into some very interesting observations, and Continue Reading →
NUnit as a project has a tradition of keeping backwards compatibility. It ensures that even if you stay on a earlier version of Visual Studio, .net FrameWork, or whatever it Continue Reading →
Once upon a time it was declared that an Assert statement should have constraints given as AreEqual and AreNotEqual. Further it was declared that it should be written in the Continue Reading →
NUnit has a very rich and readable constraint set. Normally you don’t need to do anything. But, there are some cases where it would be nice to be able to tweak Continue Reading →
The former post in this series showed how you could add aliases to the git command line, and showed how some simple aliases can simplify your command line work. This Continue Reading →
The most basic Git commands are built into the Visual Studio Team Explorer. The Team Explorer will cover your basic needs, but once you get beyond that, you will need Continue Reading →
Test Adapters come in two flavors, VSIX based and Nuget based. The VSIX based are installed as extensions to Visual Studio and therefore will apply to all solutions you load, Continue Reading →
I have had a need to have more easy access to information on how to do certain stuff, and have some easy access to simple code blocks, or templates, I Continue Reading →
It is time to reestablish my list of recommended VSIX extensions to Visual Studio, for 2017 and higher. The list of tools you install now with VSIX is less than Continue Reading →
Caches On Windows:
%LocalAppData%\NuGet\Cache
%UserProfile%\.nuget\packages
To clear: nuget locals all --clear
Feed url: https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
VSTest
NUnitAdapter, use runsettings
From admin prompt:
Start powershell:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/visual-studio-sdks
Add this tag to the initial propertygroup
AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath
Set value to false