El Bruno

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#VS2015 – This is the only way you´ll add comments in your code #EmojiVs #VSGallery

Hola! Source Code seems to be one of the most popular topics in my blog, today is … different. You have only one reason to add comments, and I mean ONLY ONE: GitHub’s EMOJIs in VS IDE. Something like this … Download you can get the VSGallery installer and also GitHub source code location. Saludos… — read more

Aug 21, 2015
#GITHUB – #Intel released the #SourceCode of Stephen Hawking’s speech recognition app

Hola! When you are on holidays you must face the hard choice: run 10K or get into some amazing piece of source code. This one is very interesting, is Stephen Hawking’s speech recognition app developed by INTEL. The app name is Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT), and as you probably already know it was created for… — read more

Aug 18, 2015
#VS2015 – Delete all comments in a file with #Roslyn

Hola! Today is time for some Roslyn code, one more time to delete all the comments in a C# source code file. The step by step on how to create a project of Roslyn, is in the references section in [Roslyn – Creating an enter and initialize field refactoring]. For this sample, we will seek… — read more

Aug 17, 2015
#VS2015 – Solution Load Manager extension, if you are dealing with tons of projects, this will help you

Hola! Again Extension Friday. If you work with Solutions with plenty of Projects, you will find this one very useful. Most of the times, you don’t need to have all the projects loaded, so this extension allows you to define the behavior used by Visual Studio 2015 to load the projects. In [Tools // Options]… — read more

Aug 14, 2015
#WINDOWS10 – #IoT Contest, amazing prices like a trip to NY or Rome to Maker Faire

Hola! Let’s move on with some more news for Windows IoT Core. Todays is a nice one, a IoT contests with focus on Home Automation solutions with Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi 2. You can check out the main rules in the link below, I really like the prices, like the invitation to go to… — read more

Aug 13, 2015
#VS2015 – Observer Pattern the easy way with #NuGet and #CSharp 6 features

Hola! These days I’m dealing with a Winforms app who needs tons of love (Thanks Tori!). I’m slowly addidng some stuff like IoC, and I get to a point where I need to upgrade the current implementation of Observer for a better one. Lucky for us, in Net Framework 4.0 the MS team added the cool IObserver<T> interface, however there is some code… — read more

Aug 12, 2015
#WINDOWS10 – W10 #IoT Core update and new deploy process

Hola! New post for Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi 2 series 1. Hardware and software 2. Boot from SD card in the device (obsolete) 3. Hello World mode! 4. Visual Studio deployment process and Web Management app 5. Hello Blinky !!! 6. Some admin tasks, like change password and change name 7. List of connected… — read more

Aug 11, 2015
#VS2015 – #TFS2015 is here and a bonus with a nice set of extensions (#Git included!)

Hola! Today is Extensions Friday, So, because yesterday was the official release of Team Foundation Server 2015, today I’ll suggest a couple of extensions I use a lot and also some others very cool. TFS Source Control History Visualization This one is a cool one. If you need a graphical representation of the history of your elements,… — read more

Aug 7, 2015
#WINDOWS10 – HowTo: Use #Xbox app to perform #ScreenRecording

Hola! In my yesterday’s post, I wrote about the set of tools I use to make some screen capture: SnagIt and Camtasia. Mostly Camtasia for screen recording, because I can encode the final video in animated GIFs format which is very useful for my blog. Is a pity that we don’t have a tool in… — read more

Aug 4, 2015
#VS2015 – Roaming Extension Manager, keep VS extensions sync between different devices

Hola! Today in “Extensions Friday” I’ll try to answer a question someone ask me in twitter long time ago: Do you know a way to sync the installed extensions in Visual Studio between different devices? The answer was NO. However today, I was installing Visual Studio 2015 and I found this extension which try to… — read more

Jul 31, 2015
#VS2015 – C# 6, nameof operator to get variables, types or members names

Hola! Sometime ago I wrote about the new feature in C# 6 which allow us to use String Interpolation instead of String.Format(). In C# 6 we also found a new cool operator: nameof. This new operator allows us to get in string the name of a variable, or a type or a member. If you… — read more

Jul 29, 2015
#VS2015 – IntelliTests a cool tool to test legacy code

Hola! If you work with legacy apps, you probably know the hard work needed to create a test Environment this this type of apps. In the most simple scenario, you start writing some code and you need some tests to validate you don’t get into any ugly errors. The main issue, is that you are… — read more

Jul 28, 2015
#HUMOR – How cool is Code Map in #VS2015, shut up and Refactoring !!!

Hola! Version en inglés y español de la misma respuesta a una conversación que mantuve esta semana. References – Channel9 Understating Complex Code with Code Map https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-2012-Premium-and-Ultimate-Overview/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2012-Understanding-complex-code-with-Code-Map-ENU – Visual Studio Gallery, VS10x Code Map https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1c54d1bd-d898-4705-903f-fa4a319b50f2 – MSDN Use code maps to debug your applications https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj739835.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Saludos @ Madrid /El Bruno — read more

Jul 26, 2015
#VS2015 – Removing code comments with a single click

Hola! As you probably know, I’m not a big fan of code Comments. I mean, sometimes 2 lines of text are very useful to give some context, however I try to avoid them as much as I can. The next comments is mostly boring and doesn’t add any value to my code IMHO I don’t… — read more

Jul 24, 2015
#VS2015 – Some tips to switch to presentation mode in events

Hola! I was in Malaga yesterday sharing some of our experiences with Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. Like always I make a quick pre check before the Presentation, and someone ask for my A-B-C process, so here it is. Check Audio and Video – If you choose to use a 16:9 format with a… — read more

Jul 22, 2015
#VS2015 – Debug #lambda expressions

Hola! In yesterday’s post I wrote about the debugging Features for LINQ available in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. In Visual Studio 2015 there is also a new feature for debug Lambda expressions which is very useful. This feature was requested by the community with almost 10K votes (link) and is finally included in Visual… — read more

Jul 21, 2015
#VS2015 – Debugging #LINQ sentences

Hola! If you use ReSharper, you probably note the suggestion you get to convert your ForEach() sentences into LINQ ones. I’m not going to get into details about performance into this options, the focus of this post is on the “clean code”. I mean, how easy is to read this code. Most of the time,… — read more

Jul 21, 2015
#EVENT- Materials used in #Coding4Fun event at Tenerife #Tlp2015 #TlpInnova

Hola! The day before the event I upgraded my laptop to the RTM version of Windows 10, so the demo time during the session was a stressful one. Besides this, I have an amazing time, and the people at the room seems to enjoy my presentation also. I also had the chance to spend some… — read more

Jul 19, 2015
#EVENT- Materials used in Windows 10 Developer Readiness by MVPs #IoT #MVPbuzz #webcast

Hola! I’ve just updated to Windows 10 RTM today, so there is no better time to share the source code, video and slides I used a couple of weeks ago in the webcast for Channel 9 “Windows 10 for developers”. I was talking about Internet of Things and Windows 10. You can access the webcast… — read more

Jul 16, 2015
#VS2015- New features for Error List Panel: Filters and Online Help

Hola! I’ve been using Visual Studio 2015 as my main IDE since a while. One the things I really like about this, is I find really cool stuff almost every day. A couple of weeks ago I was in Andorra and I was sharing one of this new features with my geek friends: New features… — read more

Jul 13, 2015