Author: Andreas Plahn

AutoHistory – Visual Studio Extension to easily roll back code a few minutes or hours.

Have you ever found yourself wishing you could roll back a few hours to a piece of code you had working but have made changes to? This extension provides an early preview of an automatic, no-configuration history tracking facility for your local machine. Just install the extension, and whatever you do in your projects and solutions, it silently and efficiently tracks the changes you make to any files that you have opened in the Visual Studio Editor. Then, when you find yourself in need of back-tracking to

Source: AutoHistory – Visual Studio Marketplace

See this Channel 9 video: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=390499

C# .NET Selenium chromedriver.exe no disk in drive e: fix

If you get this alert message when debugging with the Selenium webdriver (v3.2) chromedriver (v2.27):

chromedriver.exe no disk
there is no disk in the drive. please insert a disk into drive e:

For me the problem was related to having an unmounted drive e: (open This PC window and check). If its not possible to unmount through windows right click menu, you can use this CMD: (run as administator):

mountvol e: /d

A simple bat file for this: (remember to run as Administrator):

@echo off
ECHO Must be runned as administrator to have access rights
mountvol e: /d
pause

 

GIT – How to ignore local changed file

If you have a config file or something similar you change on your local computer but dont want it to get marked as “modified”.

Use this command:

git update-index --skip-worktree [filename]

If remote repo gets an update on that file you will get notified about this on a pull.

From stackoverflow:
skip-worktree is useful when you instruct git not to touch a specific file ever. That is useful for an already tracked config file.
Upstream main repository hosts some production-ready config but you would like to change some settings in the config to be able to do some local testing. And you don’t want to accidentally check the changes in such file to affect the production config. In that case skip-worktree makes perfect scene.

If you have skip-worktree on a file and the upstream changes, you get “please commit or stash” when you try to pull

More info here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13630849/git-difference-between-assume-unchanged-and-skip-worktree/13631525

 

Visual Studio – Trigger a xUnit test run after project build event

To trigger a xUnit test run after a successful build,
add this to the project “Build Events” / “Post-build event command line:”

"$(SolutionDir)\packages\xunit.runner.console.2.2.0\tools\xunit.console.x86.exe" "$(TargetPath)"

(You need xUnit runner console nuget package installed for this, above is for the 2.2.0 version).
Will produce something similar to this in the Output window “Build”:

 xUnit.net Console Runner (32-bit .NET 4.0.30319.42000)
 Discovering: MyApp.UnitTests 
 Discovered: MyApp.UnitTests 
 Starting: MyApp.UnitTests 
 Finished: MyApp.UnitTests 
=== TEST EXECUTION SUMMARY ===
 MyApp.UnitTests Total: 8, Errors: 0, Failed: 0, Skipped: 0, Time: 1,120s

Docs:
https://xunit.github.io/docs/getting-started-desktop.html#run-tests

Awesome .NET LibHunt – search .NET libraries and nuget packages with comparision

Your go-to .NET Toolbox. A collection of Awesome .NET libraries, tools & frameworks. 549 projects organized into 93 categories.

Great tool for searching an comparing .NET libraries and nuget packages.
Can for example compare 2 libraries to each other:
https://dotnet.libhunt.com/project/fluentassertions/vs/shouldly?rel=cmp-lib

Source: Awesome .NET

.NET Core Overview Crash Course (on Linux – but applicable on other systems)

With .NET being open source, you can also install and use the .NET Framework on your Linux machine with multiple languages, such as C#, F#, and Visual Basic (coming soon). This Refcard guides you through productively using .NET on Linux, from installation to debugging. You will find an architectural overview, tips for using the new Command Line Interface (CLI), and tools and helpful settings as they relate to your development efforts. This Refcard also covers building MVC web sites, RESTful services, and standalone applications.

Source: .NET on Linux – DZone – Refcardz