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Blogging about .NET and software development - from my bird's eye view

A Visual Studio extension to really clean your projects

A Visual Studio extension to really clean your projects

May 10, 2019
A while back one of the participants at one of my C# courses asked me if there was a way to really clean your projects: that is, delete the bin and obj folders. Because I think we all know that the "clean project" option of Visual Studio does none of
Cosmos DB SDK v3 preview

Cosmos DB SDK v3 preview

Apr 17, 2019
A while back I reviewed the EF Core Cosmos DB provider preview. But that's not the only big change coming to Cosmos DB. The actual SDK that allows you access to all the features of the service is also getting an update. While I think it's still a couple of
Updating my extensions for Visual Studio 2019

Updating my extensions for Visual Studio 2019

Apr 8, 2019
Last week, Visual Studio 2019 was finally released and with that, I think (I hope) most of us will switch to a new IDE with a lots of cool features. And with that in mind, I sat down and upgraded my extensions in the Visual Studio Marketplace to support the
C# 8.0 in Visual Studio 2019: what's new

C# 8.0 in Visual Studio 2019: what's new

Apr 6, 2019
This week VS 2019 finally came out and I was going to write a very enthusiastic and very long post about the new language features of C# 8 that I was hoping would also premier with the new IDE. Well, I was wrong on all counts: no new language version,