I generally create .NET Core web services in Visual Studio. I’ve heard good things about the more light-weight and easy-to-configure Visual Studio Code, but I’ve only barely tried it myself yet. I’m sure I will give it another go sometime soon, but for now I’m fairly content with VS – with one exception.
Tips and Tricks
A Git alias for logs, Version 2.0
A while back, I wrote a post about how to improve the log command in git by adding a customized alias for it. I’ve been fairly happy with that alias, but I kept missing one thing: A date, or some similar indicator of the age of each commit. Today, I finally set aside time to improve it, and here`s the result:
lg = log --format=\"%h: %Cgreen%an %ar %Creset(%ci) %n %s\" -10
Extending the lock screen screen timeout Windows 10
I lock my PC every time I leave it (Shortcut: Win + L), and until recently, that would cause my screen to shut off too after only a minute. When it can take upwards of 30 seconds to turn the screen back on, that can get pretty annoying if you’re just gone for that one minute.
You would perhaps think there was a simple setting for adjusting the time it takes before your screen turns off – and there is – but for some reason, it seems to be disabled and hidden in Windows by default. To enable it, you’ll need to make a change to your Windows registry. Once you’ve done that, you can easily adjust the timeout as you like.
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When code builds but looks invalid, and intellisense is dead
I recently encountered what I at first thought was a bug in Visual Studio, but which turned out to be a poorly described configuration error on my part.
The problem manifests itself like this:
How to disable the visual debug toolbar for XAML in Visual Studio
I’ve had the pleasure of working with XAML lately. When running a XAML application from Visual Studio in debug mode, this nifty little toolbar is placed on top of windows:
While I have no doubt this can be useful, I often find it annoying too, so here’s how to remove it:
Open Tools and Options from the menu, and search for “Visual” in the top left corner. Remove the tick from the highlighted checkbox, and hey-presto, no more unwanted elements in your UI!