In this post, we demonstrate development and deployment of a Jekyll blog instance from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows within Visual Studio Code with Deployment to Azure . [Demo Notes] Windows Prerequisites: Install VS Code Install Xming Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Prerequisites: Install Jekyll as per Install the azure xplat-cli enable DBUS: sudo sed -i ‘s$<listen>.*</listen>$<listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0</listen>$’ /etc/dbus-1/session.conf
Category: Visual Studio
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, Visual Studio, VS Code, Windows 10
Bash on Windows as Integrated Terminal in Visual Studio Code
by Paul DeCarlo • • 8 Comments
Visual Studio Code 1.2.0 is out now, and includes a variety of exciting new features. For example, a new integrated Terminal that allows you to stay within VS Code while using your platform’s shell. You may have also heard that Bash support has been added to Windows 10 in the current Windows Insider Preview. Hmmm??? In this…
Azure, IoT, Software Development, Uncategorized, Visual Studio
Video Series – Guide to Developing with Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Introduction Today’s post focuses on a five-part video series that will show you everything you need to know to get started developing with Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2. The series covers everything from Installation, an overview of the Operating System, Development tools, GPIO interaction, helpful extension libraries, interacting with Analog sensors, and finally concludes…
IoT, Software Development, Uncategorized, Visual Studio, Windows Phone 8
Use the Force – Biofeedback Heart Monitor with Particle Photon and Microsoft Band
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Azure, Software Development, Visual Studio
Visual Studio IDE improvements announced at Connect
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
This year marked the first edition of Connect(), a live virtual event which took place in New York on November 18 – 19, 2015. The event focused on a variety of announcements surrounding the popular Visual Studio product line including Visual Studio Online and the Visual Studio IDE. The topics range from utilizing Azure alongside your…
Azure, IoT, Software Development, Visual Studio
Windows 10 IoT Core Breathalyzer
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Background: Windows 10 IoT Core was created to build powerful solutions on low-powered devices with the potential to bridge the physical world into the nearly endless power of the cloud. It offers a world of synergistic opportunity within the Microsoft ecosystem, which includes technologies such as Visual Studio, .NET, and Microsoft Azure. All of this is available…
Coded UI, Visual Studio
Schedule Coded UI Test to Execute At a Specific Time
by Paul DeCarlo • • 2 Comments
The best way I have found to accomplish this is to create a .bat file which executes the test using the mstest command line tool, and setting this .bat to execute at a specific time using task scheduler. I currently do this daily on a project I am working on. Here are the steps oulined…
Coded UI, Visual Studio
Coded UI Test Editor in Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Microsoft has released Feature Pack 2 for Visual Studio 2010, and it contains a new built-in Coded-UI test editor. Get info and download the Visual Studio Feature Pack 2 Currently, it requires an MSDN subscription, but hopefully we will get to see this excellent tool released in all versions of Visual Studio. I’ve uploaded a…