Rebuilding My Windows Development Environment
This week, I decided to rebuild my development environment. I was noticing some performance and stability problems, and a fresh start was long overdue. In this post, I’ll describe the …
Essential Visual Studio IDE Extensions
For daily development, Visual Studio 2022 IDE is my weapon of choice. While the default feature set is amazing, it can be enhanced further by using the right extensions. With …
Launch Windows Terminal in Visual Studio
Modern development has seen a resurgence of command-line tools. On a daily basis, I use Git CLI, .NET CLI, Azure CLI, and GitHub CLI (to name a few). All developers …
Console App Project Template for .NET 7
In a previous blog post Developing Console Apps with .NET, I demonstrated how to develop command-line programs from scratch including support for built-in help, arguments, configuration, logging, dependency injection, and …
Rapidly Adding New Files in Visual Studio
Visual Studio provides numerous ways to add new files such as the New File and Add New Item dialogs. In the post I will provide an overview of those approaches, …