Category: Software Dev / Git / GitHub / DevOps / ALM

In this post, we will look at how to send an invite to a user in GitHub and how the user can accept the invite to a repository. First, go to the repo and go to Settings->Manage Access, then Invite a Collaborator: Enter the collaborator’s GitHub name: And click Add: Now copy the link and send it to the user: E.g. https://github.com/carldesouzacom/my-console-app/invitations When the user clicks on the link, they will … Continue reading Sending and Accepting a GitHub Repository Invitation

In this post, we will go through creating and approving pull requests in GitHub. Our example will include multiple reviewers. First, let’s go to a repo and change a file. We will update the version number of an assembly: Change the version: Now, we will create a new branch based off this change: This takes us to the Pull Request. Let’s add some reviewers by clicking the link on the … Continue reading Creating and Approving Pull Requests in GitHub

You may get the error message “The App You’re Trying to Install Isn’t a Microsoft-Verified App” when running an application that wasn’t downloaded from the Microsoft App Store. To resolve this, click on Change my app recommendation settings, or in Windows open Settings. Select the drop-down list for Allow apps from the Store only: We have several options: Set this to Turn off app recommendations: Relaunch your app. The message … Continue reading The App You’re Trying to Install Isn’t a Microsoft-Verified App

In this post, we will go through creating a project template in Visual Studio. First, open Visual Studio, and create a new project. I will base my project off the Console application, so I will select Console App: You will see: Add some packages, for example, NewtonSoft.Json and EntityFramework. Let’s add a lower version than the current version for one of the packages so we can also demonstrate what happens … Continue reading Creating a Template in Visual Studio

Object-Relational Mapping, or ORM, is a way of allowing you to access data in your database in the form of objects in your code. It is essentially a piece of code that sits alongside your code, and from there you can access database objects such as tables in the form of code objects. As it says, you can essentially break it down to mapping of objects to a relational database. … Continue reading Intro to Object Relational Mapping (ORM)

Visual Studio comes with different color themes. When opening Visual Studio for the first time, you may see a theme something like below: To change this theme, go to Tools->Options: From Environment, select General: Here we can see the color theme is set to “Blue”. Select a different color theme from the list: Here we have selected the Dark theme: You can also install new themes. To install a new … Continue reading Visual Studio – Change and Install Color Theme

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight tool from Microsoft used for software development. It is fast, cross-platform and supports intellisense and debugging. You can follow Visual Studio Code at: https://twitter.com/code To install it, go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ and select Download: Select the download link for your operating system. We will select Windows and run the executable: Click Next: Click Next: Click Next: Click Next: Click Next: Click Install: Click Finish: Visual Studio Code will … Continue reading Visual Studio Code Introduction

In this post we will add an existing website project to Visual Studio Team Services. First, create a project in VSTS. Log into https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/team-services/: Select New Project: Enter the project details, and select the version control type: Git Team Foundation Version Control Select the Work Item Process: Agile CMMI Scrum Click Create. Now, open the project you created earlier in Visual Studio. We have a project that is a website: … Continue reading Adding a Visual Studio Website Solution to Visual Studio Team Services

Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ and download the version you require. Run the download. I will install Professional. Select the components you would like to install and note the additional components in the Summary when you select a workload: Select Individual Components to install additional software: And Language Packs if required: Select Install on the bottom right: Once completed: Visual Studio will open: