Sunday, February 28, 2021

Tried everything? - Methodical debugging

I've been thinking about "methodical debugging" and would love to hear your thoughts and experiences. Tried Nothing GIF from Tried GIFs Early in my career, I worked in a head office IT department. While the main focus of my role was software development (mobile, desktop, and web applications), I was also the last line of support for any problems.If a customer had a problem, they'd contact the branch....

Saturday, February 13, 2021

100,000+ "thank-you"s

28 Packages | 101,283 Total downloads of packages
At some point in the last couple of days, I passed a milestone. The public* packages I have made available on NuGet have now been downloaded over one hundred thousand times.In the grand scheme of things, this isn't a large number. There are many packages with hundreds of thousands of downloads....

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Here, I made this to search StackOverflow for your error description

Context menu showing options for: Copy Description, Search Description, and Open Url
Another small update to an existing Visual Studio extension.ErrorHelper allows you to work more easily with the descriptions on the Error List.You can copy the description (not just the whole line--as is the default behavior).If the description contains a URL you can open that directly.And you can search...

Here, I made a thing to save time building all projects in a solution

Compilers are complicated. They don't always behave the way you'd expect.For instance, if you have a resource that has the Copy to Output Directory setting of Copy Always this can force a whole compilation even if nothing has changed!I've never needed this but sometimes this is the default setting for...