Mads Kristensen's Open Command Line Visual Studio extension is great. It allows you to quickly open a terminal at either the selected file location, or set it to open the project or solution level. Windows Terminal is now in it's last pre release version and support
AWS only support the LTS versions of dotnet core. At the time of writing the latest LTS version is 3.1. AWS, however, have not yet implemented native support for 3.1 although they are working on it. In the meantime, to use the native runtime you must be running
Enable the SSH server in Windows You need to add the optional feature 'OpenSSH Server' in Windows 10 first by going to Settings -> search for Add an optional feature -> search again for OpenSSH Client and choose to install. Configure SSH service to automatically start
I recently started to play around with AutoHotkey to map some of my everyday programs to new short keys. I came unstuck, however, when I wanted to map Trello, a Windows 10 Store App, as I could not find the executable path to add to the script. After searching online,
Chocolatey is a Windows package manager, which means software can be installed through shell commands. This enables software to be installed, upgraded, and uninstalled via scripts. I've started to try using Chocolatey across my different devices in an effort to keep them in sync with the different programs.
Lightshot is a wonderful little utility that enables easy selective screenshots and quick annotations. However, sometimes the Lightshot application can't register the Print Screen key as it's short key due to another program having already registered it. The culprit is usually Windows' OneDrive. To prevent
When Windows boots, there might be certain apps that you can always open without fail. Why not reduce those pesky mouse clicks and let Windows handle this instead? Third-party apps Execute the Run command (Windows key + R): shell:startup This will open the system folder in Windows Explorer. Any applications
A while back I installed Posh Git, a module for PowerShell that incorporates some git information into the shell if you're within a git repository. This is a welcome addition, although it brings the initialisation time of PowerShell down to a grinding halt. 11+ seconds to load up
When sites are in production you'll want it to use HTTPS. To redirect HTTP traffic you can use rewrite rules in the web.config. If the site is public facing and therefore SEO is important you'll also want one url to always be used. The following
If you're working with an Umbraco site using Visual Studio you will more than likely benefit from using the API version of Umbraco's Model Builder. The API mode allows the generated models to be included in the project, shared easily with other developers via source control,
Recently, our team needed to access the EpiServer admin panel, but we didn't have a valid username/password. With the help of Jon B Jones's post on the topic the following simple solution got us past the hurdle. Create an ASPX page Within the root of
As part of my push to 'work smarter, not harder', here is my list of Visual Studio 2017 extensions in no particular order. I will endeavour to keep this list up to date as and when I start using new extensions. Web Essentials 2017 Mads Kristensen is the
