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.
Opening the developer console in every major browser Most people will never even know their browser hides a great set of tools, mostly used by web developers, but which can be useful for anyone trying to figure out why their browser is misbehaving.
How to select an earlier .NET version on Visual Studio for Mac (tl;dr: you can't) Despite its marketing, Visual Studio for Mac is not the Visual Studio that millions love, ported to the Mac. Something that's absolutely trivial in standard VS, switching between .NET Frameworks, wasted several of my evenings. Maybe it'll help someone else.
Convert code from C# to VB.NET and back If you work with the .NET Framework long enough, you may eventually find yourself tasked with converting one language to another, either by request or necessity. But conversion isn't always necessary - it's possible (and easy!) to have one solution with multiple languages.
Unit Testing in Visual Studio for Mac Are you a Mac user and .NET fan? Did you know there's a native VS app now? Writing tests is important, so I decided to try out NUnit in @vs4mac.
How to Create a Git Alias If you're unfamiliar with Git's "alias" feature, it provides a way to create shortcuts for other Git commands, which can save you a lot of time. They’re easy to setup and maintain too. Let's see how.
5 Things You Can Do With a Locally Cloned GitHub Wiki There’s a feature of every GitHub repo that in my experience doesn’t get a ton of love, and that's the wiki. In all fairness, I'm not sure how much love it deserves - it's sorely lacking in features. But did you know it's a separate repo that you can clone and manipulate locally?