Materialize is a modern responsive CSS framework based on Material Design by Google.
Source: Documentation – Materialize
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ConfigTransformation – Visual Studio 2017 addon
Addon for visual studio 2017, lets you preview config file transformations.
New command in right click menu in solution explorer.
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Read and understand code faster with programming ligatures in Fira Code font | Making Visual Studio perfect
I was recently on a conference and spotted this nice code font:
Fira Code
which makes use of “ligatures” that takes common programming characters and make them more readable.
Such as >= ++ != and presents them in a more condensed and more readable way.
Read more here:
Read and understand code faster with programming ligatures in Fira Code font | Making Visual Studio perfect
To use in Visual Studio 2017, download from:
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/releases/download/1.204/FiraCode_1.204.zip
Unzip ttf folder select all fonts, right click menu and install.
Open/Restart VS2017 -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and colors -> Select “Fira Code” as font.
Fira Code on github:
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Scott Hanselman on Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures:
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx
See more code in VS2017 – Shrink Empty Lines Addon
Use this addon for VS 2017:
Source: Shrink Empty Lines – Visual Studio Marketplace
Shrinks empty line height in code editor by 25% to be able to see more lines of codes at a glance.
Attach To All The Things – Visual Studio 2017 Addon
Great tool for attaching VS 2017 debug to IIS for instance.
It will add some menu options under the Tools menu.
After installing this addon its possible set a keyboard shortcut by searching for “tools.attach” in the VS keyboard shortcut window.
Source: Attach To All The Things – Visual Studio Marketplace
Elasticsearch for .NET and EPiServer developers
Ealasticsearch Tutorial:
https://www.toptal.com/dot-net/elasticsearch-dot-net-developers
Vulcan is an EPiServer lightweight (free) alternative to EPiServer find, based on Elasticsearch as well:
https://world.episerver.com/blogs/Dan-Matthews/Dates/2016/4/introducing-vulcan-the-lightweight-elasticsearch-client-for-episerver/
https://world.episerver.com/blogs/Dan-Matthews/Dates/2017/1/vulcan-comes-of-age/
Clink – tab completion and ctrl+v addon for windows cmd.exe
Clink combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the well-known Unix shell Bash, the standard shell for Mac OS X and many Linux distributions.
New keyboard shortcuts;
Paste from clipboard (Ctrl-V).
Incremental history search (Ctrl-R/Ctrl-S).
Powerful completion (TAB).
Undo (Ctrl-Z).
Automatic “cd ..” (Ctrl-Alt-U).
Environment variable expansion (Ctrl-Alt-E).
(press Alt-H for many more…)
Source: Clink
BenchmarkDotNet
Benchmarking is really hard (especially microbenchmarking), you can easily make a mistake during performance measurements. BenchmarkDotNet will protect you from the common pitfalls (even for experienced developers) because it does all the dirty work for you: it generates an isolated project per each benchmark method, does several launches of this project, run multiple iterations of the method (include warm-up), and so on. Usually, you even shouldn’t care about a number of iterations because BenchmarkDotNet chooses it automatically to achieve the requested level of precision.