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• Why do project dependencies become project references?

  Posted on December 26, 2017

  Sometimes you want certain projects to be built before others in a solution, even if there shouldn't be a project reference between them. This is how you can avoid such a build dependency to become a project reference automatically. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • visualstudio
  • msbuild

• How to get Visual Studio 2017 installation path

  Posted on December 19, 2017

  From MSBuild it’s easy, just use $(VsInstallRoot), but what about your VS extension? It’s also quite easy, although far less discoverable. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • vssdk
  • vsix
  • visualstudio
  • msbuild

• How to include PackageReference DLLs in your VSIX extension

  Posted on November 29, 2017

  If you migrate your VSIX package references from packages.config to PackageReference, you will notice they all vanish from your output .vsix file. This is the easy way to bring them all back in a generic fashion. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • vssdk
  • vsix
  • visualstudio
  • msbuild

• How to include PDBs in your VSIX extension

  Posted on October 13, 2017

  In order to get better stack traces and logs from your Visual Studio extensions, it may be a good idea to include the PDBs inside the VSIX. The VSSDK doesn’t do this by default, but it’s trivial to do it in a generic fashion for all your extensions. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • vssdk
  • vsix
  • visualstudio
  • msbuild

• Serverless custom NuGet feeds

  Posted on October 10, 2017

  Pretty much all CI systems offer nuget feed hosting. But why setup those when you can have a CI-independent, static serverless feed virtually for free and almost no effort? [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild

• Building like a Pro: A Primer

  Posted on October 1, 2017

  In this second installment in the series, I’ll showcase the core concepts in MSBuild that will get you up and running quickly, with concrete examples to try out the various constructs. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild

• Building like a Pro: Introduction

  Posted on September 21, 2017

  This is the first of a series of posts where I intend to explore the challenges and showcase approaches to building a product using MSBuild, beyond just building a `.csproj` or `.sln` of course ;). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild

• Serverless custom Visual Studio gallery with Azure Functions

  Posted on April 12, 2017

  There are a few online services that offer custom VS galleries, but given that it’s just a plain Atom feed with some storage for the payloads, I figured it made for an excelent use case for Azure Functions. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code

• How to migrate CallContext to .NETStandard and .NETCore

  Posted on March 4, 2017

  If you need to flow data out of band like CallContext did in .NET, here's how in the new world. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code

• Developer Command Prompt in Visual Studio Code Integrated Terminal

  Posted on February 12, 2017

  Just add the following two settings via File | Preferences | Settings: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • code

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