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Windows Terminal

May 17, 2019
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I thought when the Window’s console got transparency my life was complete. Well there is so much coming, I am genuinely ...

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Copy, Paste magic in Visual Studio

May 15, 2019
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So I meant to talk about new features in Visual Studio 2019, however, I am seeing really useful features that have ...

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Time Travel Debugging in Azure

May 13, 2019
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When you find an issue or exception in a production environment you actually have two problems. Identifying the issue ...

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Search for settings in Visual Studio

April 29, 2019
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Visual Studio and has been around for a couple of decades and manages to serve the needs of many languages, platforms ...

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Advanced Visual Studio search in Watch, Autos and Local windows

April 09, 2019
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One of my favorite features in Visual Studio 2019 has to be the new search capabilities in the Watch, Autos and Local ...

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Hanselminutes interview about dasBlog

April 03, 2019
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I tend to blog about all of my tech accomplishments as a kind of journal and easy lookup, I have spoken about this ...

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The Uncanny Valley of Confidence

March 28, 2019
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So I mentioned that I started working at Microsoft right? The first and most important impressions I got was the sheer ...

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How many years have you spent creating software no one uses?

March 10, 2019
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I recently took stock of the fact that I have been designing software products and services for over twenty years. ...

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Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event

February 14, 2019
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The release date for Visual Studio 2019 is set for April 2nd at 9AM PST! This figures to be a unique event and so I ...

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