Comparing files in VS Code
VS Code is a great editor with a lot of useful features, like being able to compare two random files for differences. Let’s see how.
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Why doesn't VS 2022 show my WinForms UI at design time?
Someone at work asked about whether we’d be able to use VS 2022 to work on our main WinForms app. It works just fine in VS 2019, so it should work in VS 2022, right? Except it doesn’t. What we get is white screens of brokenness whenever we try to open a Form in the designer. But why?
Move a subdirectory into its own Git repo, with history
Need to pull a subdirectory out of repo A and create a new repo B out with it? Including full history and branches? Okay, here’s how.
What is DotNet Try?
Do you prefer reading or doing? How about both? DotNet Try pulls in C# code from your project and turns your docs into an interactive experience.
13 addons to power up your GitHub game
GitHub is an amazing set of tools around Git, but it’s lacking in certain areas. Where it fails to impress, browser addons often pick up the slack. Here’s 13 addons (plus a few honorable mentions) that will take your GitHub experience to the next level!
Deploy your own RequestBin in under 5 minutes
If you need to consume a webhook from another service, or verify the payload being sent from your own REST API endpoint, RequestBin can help. It intercepts and displays the contents of any call made to it. Here’s how to deploy your own instance in just a few minutes.
Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets
Today I’m wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs… the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!
Replacing Gmail (and its office suite) with Mailbox.org
Google provides some amazing tools, but at what cost to privacy? One of the biggest blockers in eliminating them has been finding a reliable and affordable replacement for email (and ideally, calendar, documents, tasks, etc too). Well I may have finally found it, in Mailbox.org.
What's the GitHub Package Registry?
Most of us host something (and some of us everything) on GitHub, especially since they host private repos for free too now. I’ve been eager to try the GitHub Package Registry since they announced it last May. Well, I just got access to the beta, so let’s see what we can do!
What's a package manager?
If you’ve heard the term package manager, especially with GitHub announcing their own, you might be wondering what exactly it is. Well, it’s a way to find, reuse, and share code, among other things.