It has been a while that I use a Windows Server virtual machine in Azure for all my Windows related testing. I love this approach, so that I can stay comfortably on a MacBook with only virtualized ...
Offline Publishing ASP.NET Core Apps
It is my personal view that Microsoft designed .NET Core/ASP.NET Core with little offline experience in consideration, which makes it quite difficult for an enterprise with firewalls and proxies to...
Jexus Manager, New Hope to End OOB Related 500.19 Errors
When Microsoft designed IIS 7.0, those guys must be quite proud of their achievement. That release is so significant that the later releases 7.5/8.0/8.5/10.0 almost require no big changes. The arch...
IntelliSense for reStructuredText Extension, Initial Offering
IntelliSense (or autocomplete in general) is one of the key features we prefer to use a tool to write code (instead of raw editors like Notepad). Code Snippets This extension already provides som...
How to Acquire Dependencies for Visual Studio Code Extensions
The open source community is so large today, that you don’t need to create all the wheels once again, unless really necessary. So in my case, I had to write a reStructuredText parser on my own (as...
How to Write Your Language Server in C#
I just wrote about my plan to enhance reStructuredText extension for Visual Studio Code by adding a language server. While it is going to be a long road ahead, I already got some initial results. ...
Misery Around PlatformNotSupportedException
Honestly speaking, PlatformNotSupportedException is not something new, as it was initially introduced on .NET Framework 1.x. Why do we need to talk about it now when .NET Core is the center of inn...
A New reStructuredText Project
Microsoft/Xamarin uses VSTest to enable cross platform unit testing support for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Therefore, I freed myself from maintaining the xUnit.net extension for the l...