Done by Code: my journey through software engineering.
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Power Platform Tidbits #1 – Business Rules vs Client-side scripts in model-driven apps
When to consider client-side scripts over business rules in model-driven Power Apps.
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How to install Visual Studio 2021 Preview Behind Corporate Proxy
So you are tempted to get your hands on the shiny Visual Studio 2021 Preview, right? But the evil corporate proxy is once again blocking you from expanding your curiosity? Well, fear no more. Stay with me while I’ll walk you through this in literally just a minute! Run Fiddler and make sure that fiddler…
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How to fix proxy authentication issues in your development environment
I have written about proxy authentication before and although this annoying problem has been around, many tools still don’t support it well. Specially when it comes to NTLM flavor of it that has been developed by Microsoft long time ago and even many Microsoft tools did not support it until recently. Proxy servers in my…
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A shorter way to initialize Lists in C#
Threre is a trick that I wanted to show you today. A trick you can do initialize your lists a bit easier. Of course there’s some plumbing to be done. Let’s assume you have a class definition like the following. You would typically initialize a list of Foo type like the following. But if you…
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How to use Ctrl+W to close a tab in Visual Studio
All the browsers I know give you the option to close tabs using Ctrl+W in addition to the standard Ctrl+F4 in Windows. I find Ctrl+W easier to reach than Ctrl+F4, but as a developer I switch back and forth between Visual Studio (or VS Code) and my browsers and sometimes by mistake I press Ctrl+W…
Got any idea or recommendations?