The Azure DevOps tools provide access to the Azure environment to create, manage and monitor Azure Cloud resources Azure DevOps Web Portal All DevOps operations are available through the Azure DevOps Web Portal. To access it navigate to dev.azure.com Azure Command Line Interface Use the terminal to interact with the Azure Cloud. See Microsoft Azure …
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Overview
Azure Boards Kanban boards to manage project tasks, like Jira. Columns: Azure Repos Unlimited free private source code repositories Azure Test Plans Dashboard the create and monitor tests Azure Artifacts
Configuring ChatGPT for Software Development
ChatGPT Enterprise promises not to use chat history for model training, so the enterprise data stays within the environment. To set up ChatGPT for software development On macOS Install the Codex CLI command line tool with Homebrew or with npm On Windows See the Windows setup guide at Running Codex on Windows Launch Codex CLI …
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Practical Travel Tips for Europe
These tips are for amateurs, who don’t travel regularly. When we started this journey, we had some ideas on what to expect, but there are some details, I wish knew before. If you are a seasoned traveller, you will find some obvious observations, so feel free to skip them. If one person will find it …
Open and Save panel is unresponsive in macOS
First, I noticed, that Visual Studio is very slow: Later, I noticed, that the open and save panel in every application is very slow or unresponsive. When I quit OneDrive, all problems disappeared. Solution: Restart OneDrive, or if that does not help, quit OneDrive at least for the time you want to use the open …
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Debugging Node.js applications with Visual Studio Code
To enable faster debugging in Visual Studio Code, add the outFiles attribute to the launch.json Add “sourceMap”: true to the tsconfig.json file to create source map files for emitted JavaScript files.
Build a .NET Core C# application on a Linux computer
GitHub Actions usually run on Linux workers. GitHub provides worker configuration recommendations, and those are usually Linux based. To build our .NET Core C# application on a Linux machine Install the dotnet-sdk On MacOS On Ubuntu On Red Hat Build the application Open a terminal in the project’s directory Restore the NuGet packages Build the …
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TARGETDIR property is ignored during application install
The C# Setup.msi installer can take an argument, TARGETDIR to set the install location of the application. If the application is already installed on the computer, and we try to change the install location without first uninstalling it, the installer ignores the value in the TARGETDIR property. To be able to install the application at …
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Turn off “If the running task does not end when requested, force it to stop” with PowerShell
Windows scheduled tasks are used to automatically execute processes on a set schedule. To allow a long running process to continue, even if the scheduled task would start it again before the process completion, we need to uncheck the “If the running task does not end when requested, force it to stop” option. When we …
Working with SSIS packages in Visual Studio
To be able to create, edit, and test MSSQL SSIS package solutions in Visual Studio Community edition we need to install the SQL Server Data Tools under Data storage and processing in the list of workloads. Creating SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) projects SSIS extension download locations Installation See Integration Services (SSIS) Projects and Solutions for more information