Hi, Programmer

Congratulations on your holiday. We thought for a long time what to give you today. There are programmers among us, and sometimes we talk. One of the topics is how to do more by doing less, that is, productivity, efficiency, infallibility, that's all.



For the N-th summer of programming, the author’s collection (@ahriman) has compiled a selection of resources corresponding to the above topics. That which can greatly simplify life (or not). Today we focus on Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code of different versions, as well as on architecture. We invite under kat, friends. And do not forget to share who you read, what you use and what features you like the most.

Blogs that can be read

Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager on the Visual Studio Tools team . One of the most famous programmer authors from Microsoft is Scott Hanselman. The well-known Evangelist Open Source, both outside and inside the company (for example, it was Scott who advocated Windows Live Writer , and in the process actively participated in refactoring). Scott writes a lot of code himself, and he knows what you need.
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Hanselman writes articles that can come in handy like every day:

→ Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips
→ Exploring refit, an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Standard
→ A proper terminal for Visual Studio

So something that may come in handy someday, but it is not known when, and it falls into the "Read" folder.
T4MVC and R4MVC - Roslyn code generators for ASP.NET Core tag helpers

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Mads Christensen - Senior Program Manager next door to Scott’s Visual Studio team. Perhaps you are familiar with the Web Extension Pack, and now Web Essentials ? If you are a web developer, be sure to meet. If not, then Mads’s experience in writing extensions, which he sometimes talks about in an interview and on his blog, plus different tips and tricks , will definitely be useful for common development.

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Phil Haack is a blogger programmer with 13 years of experience. He writes mostly about the web.
→ GitHub Beyond Your Browser

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Andrey Ignat , CTO at Electronic Arts. Amateur format of small notes and digests, consisting of a hodgepodge.
→ Digest Example

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Andrei Veselov , Microsoft MVP from Siberia. He has been blogging for many years, many are probably familiar with his article cycles. From the look of Andrew usually do not leave important news. One of the few bloggers who, after 37 pages of posts continues to hold a professional brand. Also publishes digests.
→ Configuration ASP.NET Core Applications

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Gunnar Paypman , another MVP. He writes about everything in the world in development (although he focuses on ASP.NET, including Core), loves fan projects.
→ Beer IoT: Visualizing sensors data using Power BI

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Courses and training materials

Channel 9 is the flagship channel for delivering Microsoft content to the outside world. The author of the article after each large event always looks to see whether there is once again a video about the features in Visual Studio.
→ Coding at 88MPH: Tips and tricks with Visual Studio 2017
Usually there is. Still there are series, one of the most interesting - Visual Studio Toolbox. They talk about new features, sometimes they discuss architecture.
→ Visual Studio Toolbox

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Microsoft Virtual Academy is the flagship channel for delivering Microsoft training courses to the outside world. You can select topics of interest and make a plan of study on them.
→ All Visual Studio courses





Ps Anyone who has seen Sasha Belotserkovsky will surely appreciate the picture before the kata. :)