Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. He was also involved in the MVP and Regional Director programs and is an avid speaker on the topic of computing.
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 10 Jun 2021 17:57
Scott Hanselman writes "....Go get .NET 5 for Windows, Mac, or Linux, over at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/ Then install Jon Sequeria's "dotnet repl" with this one line global tool install:dotnet tool install --global dotnet-repl
Then just type dotnet repl at the command..."
Read more » dotnet repl
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 08 Jun 2021 18:46
Scott Hanselman writes "....There's something happening in the E Ink space, somewhat quietly, but consistently. It's going to be interesting to see if it's a fad or if E Ink tablets are here to stay. I love my Amazon Kindle and I love its E Ink display. I'd say 90% of my..."
Read more » The quiet rise of E Ink Tablets and Infinite Paper Note Takers - reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 27 May 2021 19:12
Scott Hanselman writes "....We had a great time at the BUILD 2021 conference this year. My team and I worked really hard to put together a great Application Development Keynote and I think we did it in a way that might surprise you. Check it out! There has never been a time..."
Read more » Watch the BUILD 2021 Application Development Keynote
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 25 May 2021 19:05
Scott Hanselman writes "....How about that insane blog title? You can do lots of cool things with WSLg, which allows you to seamlessly and cleanly run Linux apps on Windows. I've written about this before. Can you really develop with Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 with WSLg?..."
Read more » Running Microsoft Edge on Linux with WSLg while running Visual Studio 2019 and debugging a Linux .NET app with WSL on Windows 10
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 20 May 2021 19:18
Scott Hanselman writes "....Are you trying to learn to code? Or perhaps you're an educator or a student, or you know someone who us? Sometimes it's intimidating when you consider all the things to install and run to get started. Well, we've created a series of all-in-one..."
Read more » Introducing The .NET Coding Pack for VS Code - Getting Started with C# for Beginners
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 18 May 2021 20:17
Scott Hanselman writes "....Hey friends! Microsoft BUILD 2021 is upon us. You can register for BUILD 2021 FREE here and join us online! I'm going to be giving the Developer Keynote on Day 2 in this segment (around 9am PST) and I can guarantee you've never seen anything like..."
Read more » Register for Microsoft BUILD 2021 free! And check out the Developer Keynote on Day 2
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 13 May 2021 19:57
Scott Hanselman writes "....My co-worker Tanha Kabir has a cool Visual Studio Code extension called REST Book. Sure, there's lots of extensions and lots of ways to call REST APIs from Visual Studio Code - not to mention the command line. However, REST Book is a Postman-like..."
Read more » Exploring the Visual Studio Code REST Book extension for native Notebooks
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 11 May 2021 18:17
Scott Hanselman writes "....Last month I learned how to convert a 13 year old .NET app to modern .NET 5 with the "try convert" tool. It was surprisingly easy to bring a "legacy" app well forward to a pretty darn cool self-contained app. That means NO .NET install. Just run an..."
Read more » Updating FloatingGlucose to .NET 5 - Display Nightscout or Dexcom Glucose Values on the Windows Desktop
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 22 Apr 2021 18:20
Scott Hanselman writes "....I blogged about How to run Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 with WSL and WSLg, but how "real" is this? Are these just toy apps? Nope. I wanted to see if I could install the Community Edition of PyCharm on Ubuntu 20.04. Even though I can't use "snaps"..."
Read more » Can you really develop with Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 with WSLg? How about PyCharm?
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 21 Apr 2021 06:55
Scott Hanselman writes "....Many folks have installed X servers and X410 on their Windows 10 machines and hacked together very nice X Server set ups with WSL over the years. However, that support is now official and coming to Windows very soon. It's already in Windows 10..."
Read more » How to run Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 with WSL and WSLg
