In this series, we are looking at some of my favorite VS Code extensions.
Extensions in VS Code are invaluable to speed up your work and make you more productive.
In this post, we will look at the GitHub Pull Request and Issues extension that allows you to stay where you are writing your code and manage your GitHub pull requests and issues right from VS Code
In this series, we are looking at some of my favorite VS Code extensions.
Extensions in VS Code are invaluable to speed up your work and make you more productive.
In this post, we will look at Angular2 Switcher which provides shortcuts to switch between the TypeScript, StyleSheet, Spec, and Html files for your Angular files.
In this series, we are taking a look at some of my favorite VS Code extensions.
Extension in VS Code are invaluable to speed up your work and make you more productive.
In this post, we are going to look at Markdown Lint which provides Markdown/CommonMark linting and style checking for markdown files.
Markdownlint has make my markdown output much more predictable and easier for others dev to follow.
In this series, we are taking a look at some of my favorite VS Code extensions.
Extension in VS Code are invaluable to speed up your work and make you more productive.
In this post, we are going to look at Path Intellisense which autocompletes file names.
In this series, we are taking a look at some of my favorite VS Code extensions.
Extension in VS Code are invaluable to speed up your work and make you more productive.
In this post, we are going to look at Fold Plus which enables you to quickly expand or collapse sections within a file.
Extension in VS Code are invaluable to speed up your work and make you more productive. In this series, we are taking a look at some of my favorite VS Code extensions.
In this post, we are going to look at Add Only to quickly add or remove a .Only to your tests.
There are a bunch of built-in Visual Studio code snippets that will generate code for you with a short keyword and then a tab key press. These shortcuts will make you more efficient when writing code such as creating properties, loops, exceptions, etc.
Below I have listed the code snippets that I most frequently use and what the output from them looks like.
To use these snippets type they keyword and then press the tab key.
Here is a list of Visual Studio Community Edition shortcuts that I use.
| Name | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Build Solution | Ctrl+Shift+B |
| Run Code Analysis on Solution | Alt+F11 |
There is no default shortcut for building the current project or running code analysis on it. You can go under the Build menu and select to build just the current project but this is a manual step that requires you to navigate through the menus.
In the Visual Studio Extension Gallery there are hundreds of extensions that are available. The extensions add additional functionality to Visual Studio. Below are the extensions that I typically have installed.
Big pile of awesome for web developers. If you are doing web development you need to have this installed.
Features:
Auto generate Xml doc comments based on your method/parameter names, exceptions through and return types.
So many times I watch Windows users spending lots of time doing task that should just take a few seconds but instead are taking several minutes because they are taking the long way around to get the task completed.
Here are some examples that I see people doing and below I will show you how to get them done the easiest way possible.
Note: All of these shortcuts are built directly into Windows.
Developer productivity is not just about maximizing your speed in editor. It also includes additional software to help you be more productive. Below is some of my favorite Windows software that I use.