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A comprehensive comparison of Jupyter Notebooks and Marimo: understand their similarities, key diffe...

Explore how to effectively customise GitHub Copilot using instructions, prompts, agents, and skills ...

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

Learn how to create custom GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code to automate repetitive tasks, build mult...

Master advanced VSCode debugging workflows for .NET: containerized debugging, multi-root workspaces,...

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

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

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

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

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

I have been using Docker on WSL2 without Docker Desktop for a while now and recently I had to rebuil...

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

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

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

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

Learn how to enable the metrics server in Minikube with this straightforward step-by-step guide and ...

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

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

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

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

I host this blog on Netlify. Often, I end up writing few blog posts on the same day, but not necessa...

As your team starts to deploy resources to Kubernetes regularly, it becomes necessary for you as a c...

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

Cosmos DB Emulator is great for developing against Azure Cosmos DB in your local environment. If you...

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

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

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

Often when working with Kubernetes you might find yourself switching between your clusters or namesp...

TIBCO Rendezvous (RDV) is one of the popular messaging product for real-time data processing. Predom...

Recently one of our customer was trying to deploy to an VM environment using Azure DevOps and all of...

I have previously blogged about publishing VSCode extensions to VSMarketplace (using GitHub actions)...

Ever had an issue where you are just got access to the client Azure DevOps instance, but for some st...

Now that Azure now has a free service for hosting static web apps via Azure Static Web Apps, I decid...

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure is a detailed guidance of patterns and practices ...

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

GitHub Actions allow you to build complex workflows to automate your build and deployment processes....

Recently I have been spending more time with GitHub Actions. If you don't know already, GitHub actio...

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

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

In order to release software often and consistently, it is essential that software dependencies are ...

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

Branch policies in Azure DevOps repositories are a great way to enforce the team's code quality. Wit...

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

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

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

The Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) is a popular and powerful Content Management System (CMS) used...

If you develop build tasks for Azure DevOps, I am sure one thing you miss is the ability to get a de...

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

Quick post on how to work with Azure Key vault using Node package for Azure Key vault. In this post ...

This is an extension for Azure DevOps, which integrates GitLab with Azure Pipelines. With this exten...

It's possible to leverage the CICD pipeline and the open source AzSDK extension to inspect Azure Paa...

Ever wanted to dump all the VSTS variables during CI or CD pipeline in VSTS? Also want it to work in...

We host this blog as a static website using Jekyll. This allows us to write our blog posts in markdo...

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

Wondering how Visual Studio top notifications? Would you like to integrate in to your extensions? Fo...

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

Software teams monitor user feedback and issue reports when rolling releases across their infrastruc...

Interested in getting notified when Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) goes down for maint...

Ever wanted to check which browser (and browser version) your VSTS/TFS extension is running on? Micr...

If you have used TFS/VSTS, you might have used "Copy to Clipboard" option at least few times - eithe...

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

This dashboard widget allows you to track your extension's downloads, ratings and downloads/day righ...

Tarun and I, developed Tag Admin extension for Visual Studio around 2 years back. Over a period of t...

TFS 15 RC1 got released a couple of days ago and one of the most awaited features from on-prem custo...

When doing the upgrade of TFS2015 from previous update version you might get an error as . In this p...

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

Do you host your blog posts in GeeksWithBlogs.net (GWB)? Well, you probably know then that, GWB does...

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

Ever wanted to see all the details of your build definition including its steps, triggers, history e...

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

My current client is still on TFS 2010 and is getting ready to upgrade to TFS 2015. One of the impor...

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

AppVeyor is a well known cloud build server, which integrates with many source controls like VSO (Vi...

Recently I wrote a Visual Studio extension called VSO Status Inspector to monitor the status of Visu...

Occasionally when Visual Studio Online (VSO) is down or having some issues, we head over to the stat...

AngularJS is a popular web framework to build interactive web pages. It is compatible with many avai...

Have you noticed, In Visual Studio, when we close the solution, all the build/other messages from th...

Early last week, we released Tag Admin extension for Visual Studio 2015 to Visual Studio Gallery. Th...

Imagine you are developing a Visual Studio extension which requires you to prompt users to modify th...

I had previously written on how to load custom assemblies in your extension using . It required few ...

In the current competitive world, everyone knows releasing the product to market is only half the ba...

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

As a Visual Studio extension developer you are required to keep the aesthetics of Visual Studio in t...

Lately in my current project, I have been doing lot of UI work and hence I constantly juggle between...

This has been my dream from couple of years now and it happened finally! I received a mail 2 days ba...

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

Tarun and I have started working on new Visual Studio extension, which we plan to release in couple ...

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

Download: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c1bf5e4f-5436-465d-87da-09b2f15ff061 v1.2.3 ...

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

If you have extended Team Explorer 2012 through your Visual Studio extension, I am sure you would ha...

Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 displays many context sensitive navigation items and links. If y...

Download – Avanade Extensions - Burndown+ The Sprint burn down for few users would plot incorrectly....

Visual Studio status bar is one of the most important status reporting indicator for any developer w...

In this blog post we will see how to listen to toolwindow events. I am going to assume that you alre...

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

If you are developing Visual Studio extensions for your users, sooner or later you would have a func...

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

Ever since I got to know about existence of shell extension programming for Windows I always wanted ...

If you ever tried to use/load third party assemblies inside your Visual Studio add-in or extensions,...

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