Tag Archives: visual studio

Setup Boot Camp with hyper-V support

Posted on January 31, 2018 by erictummers

For development I’m using Windows in a Parallels VM on my MacBook Pro. To use docker on Windows I need to enable Hyper-V. Parallels has an option called “nested virtualisation” where the guest OS can do virtualisation. For this you’ll … Continue reading →

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A first look at IntelliTest

Posted on January 24, 2018 by erictummers

Looking into Visual Studio 2017 features I found that Pex was back in the form of IntelliTest. It was actually introduced in VS2015 but I’ve never seen it. Time to give it a spin. For this I use my Traffic … Continue reading →

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VS2017 Live unit testing in Parallels Desktop VM

Posted on December 22, 2017 by erictummers

TLDR; change the project location on disk from shared mac (my documents) to local windows (c:-drive) to prevent Live unittesting from crashing Live unit testing has been introduced in 2016 (visual studio blog) and got my attention recently by a … Continue reading →

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Microsoft TechDays 2017

Posted on October 20, 2017 by erictummers

After a year of absence I’ve been to TechDays 2017. The keynote was amusing and the schedule of sessions looked promising. Happy developers all around. Below a list of take-away bullets from the sessions I attended. Azure Azure Service Fabric … Continue reading →

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Limit vs2015 IntelliTrace

Posted on January 4, 2017 by erictummers

Debugging my solution was a pain. Running from visual studio debug the application was slow, visual studio output window was cluttered and I was getting frustrated. When the application was deployed it performed fast and snappy. ❓ Looking in the options … Continue reading →

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