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Jupyter vs Marimo: Choosing the Right Python Notebook for Your Workflow

A comprehensive comparison of Jupyter Notebooks and Marimo: understand their similarities, key differences, and which on…

Mastering GitHub Copilot Customisation: A Guide to Instructions, Prompts, Agents, and Skills

Explore how to effectively customise GitHub Copilot using instructions, prompts, agents, and skills to enhance your codi…

GitHub CLI Power Tips - Hidden Gems to Supercharge Your Workflow

Discover powerful tips and tricks for using the GitHub CLI (`gh`) to enhance your development workflow and productivity.

GitHub Copilot Custom Agents: Building Specialized AI Workflows in VS Code

Learn how to create custom GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code to automate repetitive tasks, build multi-agent workflows, a…

Advanced .NET Debugging in VSCode: Beyond the Basics

Master advanced VSCode debugging workflows for .NET: containerized debugging, multi-root workspaces, symbol loading fixe…

Making Bulk Updates in Azure Cosmos DB

Learn how to perform bulk updates efficiently in Azure Cosmos DB using the .NET SDK with this guide.

Using Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code

Learn how to set up and use Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code for a seamless data science experience.

Exploring GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

It has been a few months since GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) has been made generally available for Azure DevOps. Durin…

Use a single repository for multiple wikis in Azure DevOps

This is a quick post to share how you can use a single Azure DevOps repository for multiple wikis in Azure DevOps. This …

Creating KEDA Scalar in Azure Container Apps using Azure Portal

In this post, I would like to show you how we added custom scaling with KEDA using the Azure Portal — Thanks to the KEDA…

Installing Docker without Docker Desktop on WSL2

I have been using Docker on WSL2 without Docker Desktop for a while now and recently I had to rebuild my Ubuntu distro. …

Sync time on WSL with Windows

Quick tip on how to sync WSL time with Windows to fix Azure CLI token issues caused by time mismatch.

Connecting to a remote server using SSH without prompt

Learn to connect to a remote server using SSH without prompts - perfect way to make it work for CI/CD automation.

Print environment variables of a running pod

Discover how straightforward it is to print the environment variables of a running pod using the kubectl command.

How to sort the output of kubectl by a field

Sort `kubectl` output by a specific field easily with the `--sort-by` flag for better data management.

How to enable metrics server in minikube

Learn how to enable the metrics server in Minikube with this straightforward step-by-step guide and maximize its potenti…

Multiple ways to select pods using labels in Kubernetes

A quick tip on how to select Kubernetes pods efficiently by using labels for streamlined management and organization.

How to enable indentation, line numbers and syntax highlighting in Vim

Enable indentation, line numbers, and syntax highlighting in Vim using this easy configuration changes.

How to find short names for Kubernetes resources in kubectl

Learn this quick tip to find Kubernetes resource short names in kubectl for quicker and efficient management.

How to start minikube for specific Kubernetes version

Quick tip to start Minikube with a specific Kubernetes version using this simple and clear step-by-step guide.

Trigger a Netlify build every day using GitHub Actions

I host this blog on Netlify. Often, I end up writing few blog posts on the same day, but not necessarily want all of the…

Policy enforced deployments for your Kubernetes resources

As your team starts to deploy resources to Kubernetes regularly, it becomes necessary for you as a cluster administrator…

Keep your workflow actions up to date using GitHub Dependabot

GitHub Actions is great in automating your workflows. However, as you start using various actions from GitHub Marketplac…

Setting up Azure Cosmos DB Emulator on Synology NAS

Cosmos DB Emulator is great for developing against Azure Cosmos DB in your local environment. If you want to run the emu…

How to publish Helm 3 charts to GitHub Container Registry using GitHub Actions

I have already written how to publish Helm chart to ACR using [Azure DevOps]() and [GitHub actions](). But did you know …

Publish Helm 3 charts to Azure Container Registry (ACR) using GitHub Actions

In my [previous]() post, we briefly covered how to publish a Helm chart to ACR using Azure DevOps. In this post we will …

Helm 3 - CI/CD with Azure DevOps using Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Helm 3 - CI/CD with Azure DevOps using Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Quickly switch Kubernetes cluster and namespaces with kubectx and kubens

Often when working with Kubernetes you might find yourself switching between your clusters or namespaces. I am doing thi…

Deploying TIBCO Rendezvous on RedHat Enterprise Linux using Azure DevOps

TIBCO Rendezvous (RDV) is one of the popular messaging product for real-time data processing. Predominantly used in Fina…

Troubleshooting Azure DevOps deployment stuck at 'Queued' status

Recently one of our customer was trying to deploy to an VM environment using Azure DevOps and all of their deployments w…

Publish VSCode extension to VS Marketplace using simplified ChatOps

I have previously blogged about publishing VSCode extensions to VSMarketplace (using GitHub actions). However, that work…

Azure DevOps workitems don't show frequently used users? Here's how to fix it.

Ever had an issue where you are just got access to the client Azure DevOps instance, but for some strange reason you fin…

Hosting Jekyll website on Azure Static WebApps

Now that Azure now has a free service for hosting static web apps via Azure Static Web Apps, I decided to write a quick …

Plan your cloud migration with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure DevOps

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure is a detailed guidance of patterns and practices to create and implem…

EAI_AGAIN error in bash when using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Lately I am hooked to WSL and have been using bash as my main terminal. It has auto complete, allows me to connect to my…

Publish VSCode extension using GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions allow you to build complex workflows to automate your build and deployment processes. Built on top of Azu…

Patch files using GitHub Actions

Recently I have been spending more time with GitHub Actions. If you don't know already, GitHub actions allow you to orch…

VSIX Viewer - A Visual Studio Code extension to view contents of VSIX files

Do you develop Visual Studio Marketplace Extensions? Then you might already be aware of VSIX file types. VSIX file types…

How to build your .NET projects targeting latest version of C#

Build your .NET projects targeting latest version of C#. CS8107 - Feature default literal is not available in C# 7

Perfecting Continuous Delivery of NuGet packages for Azure Artifacts

In order to release software often and consistently, it is essential that software dependencies are managed using a good…

Azure Pipelines - Git checkout step fails with cannot lock ref error

For one of our clients, we noticed their builds started failing at the checkout step. Looking at the logs the error was

View branch policies of your Azure DevOps repository using Azure CLI

Branch policies in Azure DevOps repositories are a great way to enforce the team's code quality. With right branch polic…

Start blogging with Jekyll, GitHub and Netlify

I thought I will write a small blog post on how we host this blog. This is a JAMstack site, meaning what you see is just…

How I built a dashboard in Azure Portal to track Gitflow feature branches

Learn how to build a dashboard in Azure portal to track stale feature branches and keeping their branches neat and tidy

Installing ASP.NET Core Site Extension for Azure App Service Using ARM template

Extensions add functionality to your App Service. This is a small post showing how to install `ASP.NET Core Extensions` …

Provisioning Sitecore environment with Azure DevOps on Azure PaaS

The Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) is a popular and powerful Content Management System (CMS) used by many organizatio…

Monitor unhandled exceptions in your VS Marketplace task extensions using Sentry

If you develop build tasks for Azure DevOps, I am sure one thing you miss is the ability to get a detailed error report …

Continuous build and deployment of Visual Studio extensions using Azure Pipelines

Visual Studio extensions are great to extend and add additional features/enhancements to the Visual Studio IDE. Unfortun…

Working with Azure Key vault using NodeJS

Quick post on how to work with Azure Key vault using Node package for Azure Key vault. In this post we will write a secr…

GitLab Integration for Azure Pipelines extension

This is an extension for Azure DevOps, which integrates GitLab with Azure Pipelines. With this extension, you will be ab…

Check for security issues in your ARM templates using AzSk

It's possible to leverage the CICD pipeline and the open source AzSDK extension to inspect Azure PaaS and Azure IaaS for…

Dump all VSTS variables in Windows or Linux based agents with one line of code

Ever wanted to dump all the VSTS variables during CI or CD pipeline in VSTS? Also want it to work in both Linux and Wind…

Back to basics: Building static website using Jekyll in VSTS

We host this blog as a static website using Jekyll. This allows us to write our blog posts in markdown syntax and we get…

Back to basics: Building .NET Core app in VSTS

My current client, just started to use .NET core as their main development platform. I felt this is the right time to re…

HOWTO: Show notifications inside Visual Studio

Wondering how Visual Studio top notifications? Would you like to integrate in to your extensions? Follow along, in this …

GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management

We saw in my last blog post how deployment gates allow you to monitor your GitHub repo for issues in your release pipeli…

GitHub Issues - As a deployment gate in VSTS Release Management

Software teams monitor user feedback and issue reports when rolling releases across their infrastructure estate. In our …

VSTS Status Monitor - A Google Chrome extension to monitor VSTS Status

Interested in getting notified when Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) goes down for maintenance or when it co…

HOWTO: Check browser type and its version in your VSTS/TFS extensions

Ever wanted to check which browser (and browser version) your VSTS/TFS extension is running on? Microsoft Visual Studio …

HOWTO: Copy text to clipboard in VSTS/TFS Extensions

If you have used TFS/VSTS, you might have used "Copy to Clipboard" option at least few times - either on the workitem co…

Open sourcing Export/Import Build Definition extension

I have decided to open source my favorite Export/Import build definition extension. I wanted to open source the extensio…

Extension Download Monitor Widget - Monitor your extension downloads/ratings from VSTS/TFS dashboard

This dashboard widget allows you to track your extension's downloads, ratings and downloads/day right from the VSTS/TFS …

Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2017

Tarun and I, developed Tag Admin extension for Visual Studio around 2 years back. Over a period of time, we got busy and…

Continuous delivery of NuGet packages to Package Management in TFS15 RC1

TFS 15 RC1 got released a couple of days ago and one of the most awaited features from on-prem customers was Package Man…

TF254027 : Cannot create a binding on port 443 because the specified certificate could not be found

When doing the upgrade of TFS2015 from previous update version you might get an error as . In this post we will see deta…

Export and Import your build definitions in VSTS and TFS between team projects

This VSTS/TFS extension will help you to export your build definition and then import it in same or another team project…

Export your GeeksWithBlogs.net blog posts as Markdown files

Do you host your blog posts in GeeksWithBlogs.net (GWB)? Well, you probably know then that, GWB does not provide any mea…

How to configure WinRM for HTTPS manually

In this post we will see how you can configure WinRM (Windows Remote Management) service to work with HTTPS manually.

Export as PDF - VSTS extension to export build definition as PDF

Ever wanted to see all the details of your build definition including its steps, triggers, history etc in a neat report …

Options for displaying modal dialogs in Visual Studio extensions

In this blog post, we will explore different options for displaying WPF modal dialog in Visual Studio extensions.

MSBuild Dependency Visualizer tool

My current client is still on TFS 2010 and is getting ready to upgrade to TFS 2015. One of the important task during the…

'Value does not fall within the expected range' error while adding toolbar to toolwindow

Hello, this is going to be a small post. In one of my Visual Studio extension, I was trying to add a toolbar to the tool…

AppVeyor extension for Visual Studio 2013/2015

AppVeyor is a well known cloud build server, which integrates with many source controls like VSO (Visual Studio Online),…

VSO Status Inspector - A walk through on creating a Visual Studio extension to track VSO Status

Recently I wrote a Visual Studio extension called VSO Status Inspector to monitor the status of Visual Studio Online (VS…

Visual Studio Online Status Inspector

Occasionally when Visual Studio Online (VSO) is down or having some issues, we head over to the status overview page to …

AngularJS and Internet Explorer 9

AngularJS is a popular web framework to build interactive web pages. It is compatible with many available modern browser…

HOWTO: Monitor solution events in Visual Studio extensions

Have you noticed, In Visual Studio, when we close the solution, all the build/other messages from the output window are …

Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2013

Early last week, we released Tag Admin extension for Visual Studio 2015 to Visual Studio Gallery. The extension was well…

How to open Configuration Manager in Visual Studio extensions

Imagine you are developing a Visual Studio extension which requires you to prompt users to modify their project build co…

Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions

I had previously written on how to load custom assemblies in your extension using . It required few lines of code to be …

Using exceptionless to track exceptions in your VS Extension

In the current competitive world, everyone knows releasing the product to market is only half the battle. You are expect…

Link To Work Item – Visual Studio extension to link changeset(s) to work item directly from VS history window

Link To Work Item – Visual Studio extension to link changeset(s) to work item directly from VS history window

Using progress dialog in Visual Studio extensions

As a Visual Studio extension developer you are required to keep the aesthetics of Visual Studio in tact when you integra…

Always open XAML files in full XAML view

Lately in my current project, I have been doing lot of UI work and hence I constantly juggle between view model classes …

I am Microsoft ALM MVP for 2014

This has been my dream from couple of years now and it happened finally! I received a mail 2 days back from Microsoft an…

How to fix build error Invalid command line switch for CreatePkgDef.exe. Can not find the tools for VS SDK

How to fix build error Invalid command line switch for CreatePkgDef.exe. Can not find the tools for VS SDK

How to open web page in internal browser of Visual Studio

Tarun and I have started working on new Visual Studio extension, which we plan to release in couple of weeks after Chris…

Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio

In one of my previous blog post we have seen persisting settings using Visual Studio's options dialog. Visual Studio opt…

What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013

Download: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c1bf5e4f-5436-465d-87da-09b2f15ff061 v1.2.3 (25 Oct 2013) - New …

Passing parameters to Visual Studio tool window using IServiceProvider

You have a toolwindow in your extension and show it on click of a menu/button/link as below. ```cs IVsUIShell service = …

Issues while extending Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2013

If you have extended Team Explorer 2012 through your Visual Studio extension, I am sure you would have referred code fro…

Showing TeamExplorer Navigation Item only when connected to a Team Project

Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 displays many context sensitive navigation items and links. If you would like to kno…

Avanade Extensions - Sprint Burndown Plus Release Notes v1.3.1

Download – Avanade Extensions - Burndown+ The Sprint burn down for few users would plot incorrectly. As you can see in t…

Using Visual Studio status bar in your extensions

Visual Studio status bar is one of the most important status reporting indicator for any developer working with Visual S…

Listening to tool window events in Visual Studio

In this blog post we will see how to listen to toolwindow events. I am going to assume that you already know how to crea…

Get Assembly Full Name using context menu

Assembly Full Name - What is it? .NET assemblies contain full name, also known as fully qualified name. The full name is…

Integration with Visual Studio Options Window using custom controls

If you are developing Visual Studio extensions for your users, sooner or later you would have a functionality where you …

Subscribe to Windows Explorer close event

Lately I am busy working on developing a small shell extension. There is a functionality in my shell extension, that use…

Developing shell extensions in C# with EZShellExtensions.Net

Ever since I got to know about existence of shell extension programming for Windows I always wanted to write one. The ut…

Loading custom assemblies in Visual Studio extensions

If you ever tried to use/load third party assemblies inside your Visual Studio add-in or extensions, there is a good cha…

Favorites Menu for Visual Studio

Favorites Menu for Visual Studio, is a FREE add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. This add-in will help in m…