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reStructuredText Extension: Broken in VS Code 1.9.0

A user reported this issue a few days ago that the extension no longer works after VS Code 1.9.0 release, while I was packing up things before my departure from Shanghai to Montreal. I could not ev...

Strange Visual Studio 2017 RC Installation Error

I met the below issue, The product failed to install the listed workloads and components due to one or more package failures. Incomplete workloads .NET desktop development (Microsoft.VisualStudio....

How to Write Add-ins to Extend Visual Studio for Mac

I just shipped a test build of xUnit.net add-in at GitHub, which enables Visual Studio for Mac to run xUnit unit test cases. So what are the steps to build such an add-in? Below I try to show some...

Porting #SNMP Library to .NET Core Once Again

You probably know that I have ported this library to .NET Core a few months ago, Initial attempt RC1 to RC2 RC2 to RTM Overall things work as Microsoft promised, but the process was rathe...

.NET Core Installation with Visual Studio 2017 RC

Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2017 RC on Microsoft Connect so I guess you already have it installed on your machine while it is hot. So what exactly does this new release ship for .NET Core dev...

#SNMP Pro: Recent Releases

You should notice that #SNMP Library is now releasing more frequent with minor releases in just a few months, such as 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and today 9.0.3. To match such a new strategy, the Pro edi...

DockPanel Suite: Too Many Themes and New Goodies

I blogged a few days ago on DockPanel Suite recent changes, but well excitingly there is much more to share this time. New Features Remember that I mentioned the “new theme design”? It has been ...

DockPanel Suite: Theme Reloaded

I blogged about DPS theming a few times, aiming to demonstrate how we ported VS2012 Light theme in, how the related API was refactored, and how themes became separate NuGet packages. But I never ex...