Shane Bartholomeusz

Geek and lover of all things tech related

Tag: Visual Studio

Visual Studio: Close Current Tab Keyboard Shortcut

Overview

It’s common today to use the CTRL+W in various applications including most web browsers. If you’ve used Visual Studio you’ve probably noticed that this keyboard shortcut does not work when trying to close the currently opened tab.

In this article, I’ll show you how you can easily configure Visual Studio to close the currently opened tab.

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Visual Studio: Generate Class From JSON String

Overview

If you work JSON documents, I’m sure you’ve probably had to create a class file from a JSON string. Doing this manually can be a real pain in the proverbial, especially if you are working with a large JSON document. It can also be very error-prone. Therefore it’s best to automate this conversion.

In this post I’ll show you how to automatically generate a class file from a JSON string using a little known feature built into Visual Studio.

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Visual Studio: Show Current File in Solution Explorer

Overview

Have you ever worked on a large Visual Studio project that contained many projects and become somewhat disorientated, unable to find the currently open file within the Solution Explorer pane?

I did just that recently … I started work on a large Visual Studio solution for a client which contained over 180 projects within a single solution. Yep, I’m not even joking!

Whilst trying to learn and understand the solution structure I found myself getting lost inside the sea of nested projects and folders contained within the solution.

Well guess what? You’re in luck because I’ll show you a little known feature that may help you.

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Fixed: Configure Visual Studio GIT Proxy Server

Problem

Working in corporate environment can bring it’s own set of challenges when setting up tooling. A typical corporate environment will usually contain a Proxy server setup.

If you have encountered the below errors while using the built-in GIT integration with Visual Studio 2019. In this post I’ll show you how to fix these issues.

Failed to connect to XXXXX.com port 443: Connection refused

Git failed with a fatal error.

unable to access XXXX

Proxy CONNECT aborted

407: Proxy Authentication Required

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How to Create a Q&A Chat bot using Azure Q&A Maker

Previously, when it came to creating your own Microsoft bots, it required a certain degree of knowledge and custom development to make things actually happen.

This has all changed with the Microsoft’s Cognitive Services portfolio. You can now have a bot up and running in 10 minutes – literally!

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Register .Net Framework version with IIS web server

Visual Studio Error

When trying to open a Visual Studio solution, I encountered the following error.

C:\myFilePath\myService.Service.csproj : error  : The Web Application Project XXXXXX.Service is configured to use IIS. IIS is not installed on this computer. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components:       Internet Information Services       IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration Compatibility       ASP.NET In addition, you must run Visual Studio in the context of an administrator account. For more information, press F1.


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