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The Azure DevOps tools provide access to the Azure environment to create, manage and monitor Azure Cloud resources
All DevOps operations are available through the Azure DevOps Web Portal. To access it navigate to dev.azure.com
Use the terminal to interact with the Azure Cloud. See Microsoft Azure CLI
The Azure connectivity is available in
Kanban boards to manage project tasks, like Jira. Columns:
Unlimited free private source code repositories
Dashboard the create and monitor tests
ChatGPT Enterprise promises not to use chat history for model training, so the enterprise data stays within the environment.
Install the Codex CLI command line tool with Homebrew
brew install codexor with npm
npm i -g @openai/codexSee the Windows setup guide at Running Codex on Windows
In the terminal execute
codexSign in with ChatGPT
Chose the login method you used to create the account. Fort SSO authentication enter your company email address and click the Continue button.
If you get the error message
An error occurred during authentication (codex_cli_workspace_disabled). Please try again.
You can contact us through our help center at help.openai.com if you keep seeing this error. (Please include the request ID
the Codex CLI feature is not enabled in your account.
In a terminal execute
npm i -g @openai/codex@latestThese 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 useful, it already made sense to write it down.
We used Booking.com to find the hotels which had the highest ratings and reasonable price. As we mostly travelled by train and used local transportation, we were looking for places near to Metro (subway) stations and not too far from railway stations.
As you know, travel between distant cities takes time, especially if you travel by airplane. In Europe you usually spend more time at the airport waiting for your boarding and your luggage, than in the air. It is safe to assume, that on the day of travel, you can only do some walking or catch the last hop-on hop-off bus, eat dinner, but not much more. So if you want to spend an entire day at a place, you need to stay for two nights.
Learn four expressions:
If you start the conversation in the local language, you demonstrate, that you honor their culture and took the time to explore it. You distinguish yourself from 99% of the tourists they are tired of. Everyone we met on our journey was very nice and helpful after we greeted them in french. The younger generation speaks english very well, and they were glad to practice it.
In Europe usually Bolt is less expensive than Uber. Download the application in advance, and set up an account. Once you arrive to the city, just call a Bolt. Local “taxis” can be fake and you never know in advance how much the trip will cost. As Uber, Bolt gives you the cost, the model, license plate of the vehicle, and the name of the driver in advance.
At many places the card reader will ask you if you want to pay in local currency, or in your currency. Our experience is, it is less expensive to pay in local currency and have your credit card company charge you for the conversion.
In Europe public transportation is excellent. At the airport or train station look for the tourist information desk and buy day passes for the duration of your stay. You can use them on the Metro, buses, street cars and many times local trains around the city. At night, if you don’t feel comfortable to go back to your hotel in the dark, call a Bolt from a safe place.
In Europe you usually have to pay 1 Euro to use the public toilet. In Switzerland you can use a credit card, but in France you usually need cash.
We always try to take the Hop-on Hop-off bus on the day of arrival. For 25-30 euros you get a great guided city tour in your language. It takes you to the most interesting places, and helps you to decide what to visit the next day.
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 and save dialog.
To enable faster debugging in Visual Studio Code, add the outFiles attribute to the launch.json
{
"name": "Node - My App",
"command": "npm run start:dev",
"request": "launch",
"type": "node-terminal",
"cwd": "/ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_MY/APP_FOLDER",
"outFiles": [
"${cwd}/build/**/*.js",
// To step into node modules,
// "!**/node_modules/**"
]
},Add “sourceMap”: true to the tsconfig.json file to create source map files for emitted JavaScript files.
{
"compilerOptions": {
...
"sourceMap": true,
...
}
}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
On MacOS
brew update
brew install dotnet-sdkOn Ubuntu
apt-get install dotnet-sdkOn Red Hat
yum install dotnet-sdkOpen a terminal in the project’s directory
Restore the NuGet packages
dotnet restoreBuild the project
Specify the –runtime to make sure the necessary libraries are included
dotnet build --runtime win-x64 --configuration Release MY_DOTNET_CORE_PROJECT.csprojThe C# Setup.msi installer can take an argument, TARGETDIR to set the install location of the application.
msiexec.exe /i "Setup.msi" /qn /norestart TARGETDIR="D:\MY_APP_DIRECTORY"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 a new location, first uninstall the application and run the Setup.msi again.
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 use PowerShell to create the scheduled task, in the New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet command use the -DisallowHardTerminate option.
$settings = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet `
-AllowStartIfOnBatteries `
-DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries `
-StartWhenAvailable `
-RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable:$false `
-ExecutionTimeLimit (New-TimeSpan -Hours 12) `
-MultipleInstances IgnoreNew `
-DisallowHardTerminateTo 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.
See Integration Services (SSIS) Projects and Solutions for more information