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C#, Visual Studio

Executing ad hoc C# code snippets

It may happen that you want to test some C# code without having to start the full car, i.e. open up Visual Studio or Visual Studio code. You may even want to test some of the libraries you’re developing to see how a scenario or behavior you are thinking about would react. Say no more. In this post, I will show you 2 ways to do so. It won’t require you to create a console app or even run your actual application with your code snippet. This will allow you to quickly test your code and scenarios. Note that the techniques below are to produce outputs, not to actually debug your code. For debugging, you will need an IDE that…

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November 8, 2021 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments
Azure, C#, Visual Studio

The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0 – Azure Functions

A lot has changed ever since I played with Azure Functions and .NET Standard 2.0. If you remember from my previous post, I was talking about how you had to set the FUNCTIONS_EXTENSION_VERSION to beta in order to benefit from the new runtime. I also talked about how I had a problem with the connection manager to access the app settings. Well the good news is that the team now fully migrated to the new Configuration modeling from ASP.NET core. You can now easily refer to your configurations by importing the following packages and using the following code to have access to your configuration: Nuget package Description Microsoft.Extensions.Logging Main logging package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions Makes SetBasePath() available Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Json Makes AddJsonFile() method available…

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July 15, 2018 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments
C#, Visual Studio

How to debug your .NET applications and packages without the actual source

Debugging is a big part of a developer’s job. It becomes even more critical when things don’t happen quite right in production. If you are lucky, your production application has been compiled with the symbols (PDBs or Program Database). Since I always tend to forget how to debug in such a way, I am writing it here as reminder to myself, but also to remind you that the world does not stop here if you did not compile the pdbs with your production application. To be able to debug, a copy of Visual Studio is needed. Debugging a .NET application when the source code is unavailable Debugging an application when the source is unavailable can now be done with tools…

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August 3, 2017 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment
Tools, Visual Studio, Web

Synchronizing node version with your environment in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 is official finally out and Microsoft did a tremendous job in listening to their user base. They simplified the install process, enhanced the speed of the load of the projects, enhanced their IntelliSense and debugging tools to say the least. If you have not tried it yet, go and grab yourself a copy today! The community edition is free and is available to everyone! On that note, one may remember the nodejs binding problem that would occur in Visual Studio 2015 when it comes to gulp and node-sass

This happens because Visual Studio has a set of paths that are searched to find node/npm etc. By default Visual Studio 2017 comes with Node 5.4.1 and npm 3.3.4 shipped. As…

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March 12, 2017 | by Dominique St-Amand | Leave a comment