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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 | 24 Sep 2017 02:28

Spend less time CD'ing around directories with the PowerShell Z shortcutSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Everyone has a trick for moving around their computer faster. It might be a favorite shell, a series of aliases or shortcuts. I like using popd and pushd to quickly go deep into a directory structure and return exactly where I was. Another fantastic..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 21 Sep 2017 04:34

What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring AvaloniaSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....Many years ago before WPF was the "Windows Presentation Foundation" and introduced XAML as a UI markup language for .NET, Windows, and more, there was a project codenamed "Avalon." Avalon was WPF's codename. XAML is everywhere now, and the XAML..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 18 Sep 2017 06:25

A Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#'s GiraffeSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I was watching Ody Mbegbu's YouTube Channel - it's filled with .NET Core and ASP.NET Tutorial Videos - and was checking out one in particular, "Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Giraffe." Dane Vinson pointed me to it. There is such a great open..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 14 Sep 2017 21:58

The ASP.NET Interns ship their project - A basic blog template for .NET CoreSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....The Visual Studio Tools team had some great interns this summer. Juliet Daniel, Lucas Isaza, and Uma Lakshminarayan have been working all summer and one of their projects was to make something significant with ASP.NET Core and .NET Core. They..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 10 Sep 2017 06:44

Experiments in Open Source: Exploring vcr-sharp for Http record and playbackSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've always said that reading source code is as important as write it - especially as part of the learning process. You learn a ton about how other coders think and solve problems, plus you learn about lots of new libraries and methods you may not..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 07 Sep 2017 19:05

T4MVC and R4MVC - Roslyn code generators for ASP.NET Core tag helpersSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've always loved the T4 text generator within Visual Studio. If you are looking for T4 within Visual Studio 2017 you need to install the "Visual Studio extension development" option within the installer to access it. However, T4 development seems..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 02 Sep 2017 02:20

Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelperSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....KISS - Keep it Simple, Stupid. While I don't like calling people stupid, I do like to Keep it Super Simple! I was talking to Jeff Fritz on my team about a new system we're architecting. I suggested CosmosDB or perhaps Azure Table Storage. Then we..."
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Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen | 29 Aug 2017 19:55

Experimental: Reducing the size of .NET Core applications with Mono's LinkerSubscribe to this feed

Scott Hanselman writes "....The .NET team has built a linker to reduce the size of .NET Core applications. It is built on top of the excellent and battle-tested mono linker. The Xamarin tools also use this linker so it makes sense to try it out and perhaps use it everywhere!..."
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