Visual Studio - Jason Taylor — Software Architecture & .NET

Productivity

Essential Visual Studio IDE Extensions

For daily development, Visual Studio 2022 IDE is my weapon of choice. While the default feature set is amazing, it can be enhanced further by using the right extensions. With nearly 2,000 extensions to choose from, we are spoilt for choice! In this blog post, I'll share

Productivity

Launch Windows Terminal in Visual Studio

Modern development has seen a resurgence of command-line tools. On a daily basis, I use Git CLI, .NET CLI, Azure CLI, and GitHub CLI (to name a few). All developers should learn to embrace the CLI, not only to improve their productivity but also to gain access to better and

Productivity

Rapidly Adding New Files in Visual Studio

Visual Studio provides numerous ways to add new files such as the New File and Add New Item dialogs. In the post I will provide an overview of those approaches, along with my preferred approach for rapidly adding new files in Visual Studio. New File dialog The New File dialog

ASP.NET Core

Create Northwind Traders Code First with Entity Framework Core - Part 2

Welcome back! In part 1 of this series we created the solution and scaffolded the data model based on an existing database. In part 2 we will clean-up the data model by improving the naming of entities and navigation properties, we will create two data migrations - one to create

ASP.NET Core

Create Northwind Traders Code First with Entity Framework Core - Part 1

In this 2 part series, I'll show you how to create a code first version of Northwind using Entity Framework Core. We'll start by creating the database from scripts, scaffolding the model within a project, adding a migration for the initial create, and finally, adding a

GitHub

Installing the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2017

If you need to install the GitHub extension for Visual Studio 2017 simply follow these steps. 1. Using the Start Menu, locate and launch the Visual Studio Installer 2. Under Visual Studio 2017, click Modify 3. Select the Individual Components tab 4. Scroll down to the Code tools section and

Visual Studio

Error installing Visual Studio 2017 RC - "A product matching the following parameters cannot be found"

I received this error attempting to install Visual Studio 2017 RC: channelId: VisualStudio15.Release productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise This can occur if you have a previous version of Visual Studio '15' installed. It can also occur if your version of Visual Studio '15' failed to