Github and Azure DevOps specialist, Visual Studio Development Technologies MVP and NUnit core team member
The listgit tool allows you to list the remotes for multiple git repositores under a folder, or search for a local repo with a given remote. The tool is very handy when you have multiple repositores and need to figure where you have a specific one, or a set that matches a certain pattern. Continue Reading →
Github Actions can be used for automating a series of processes, as it can utilize most of the events in the github system. The most typical use will still be to trigger CI/CD builds. 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 a few ways of handling this. Background When you’re starting up a new git repository for a Visual Studio project, you need a .gitignore file 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 post show how you can extend that to work more actively with the Azure DevOps (formerly known as VSTS) server hosting your repository. (If you 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 to drop down to the command line. The commands are more explicit there, and you have more options, but you will soon tire of having 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 can copy/paste. A blog post is for me somewhat more extensive, and that format was not really suited for smaller notes. So I decided to Continue Reading →
Visual Studio 2017 lack a proper internal terminal. The Command Line extension has been a good substitute, but it opens up in a separate window. If you work with multiple Visual Studio at the same time, you loose track of which command window belongs to which Visual Studio instance. Visual Studio Code has it’s own Continue Reading →
Download: IFix 1.7 When I start creating a new solution I normally want this in its own git repository, and I catch myself adding the same stuff over and over again. And, I often get the folder structures wrong, I seem to never get the hang of when and where Visual Studio creates a folder Continue Reading →
This post is written for those going from TFS Version Control to Git, and is an introduction to a smart improvement in Visual Studio 2015 – Commit Amend. Command Line enthusiasts already know how this is done, but it may still be useful to see how this is resolved in Visual Studio. In TFS VC Continue Reading →
The .gitignore file contains rules for what files and folders to exclude from git source control. When you use NuGet you don’t want the binaries retrieved by NuGet to be included into your git repository. The binaries (and other files) from a NuGet package is downloaded into a folder named packages by default. You need 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