As a developer, I have to copy and paste. A lot! Sometimes I need to copy several items from different locations and then paste them into the same file. This can be very tedious with the traditional Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V process. To help remedy this, I use Comfort Clipboard Pro, a very powerful clipboard manager. …
Visual Studio 2019 shipped on April 1st. And one of the nice things about it is you can have it installed side-by-side with other version — like Visual Studio 2017. Most developers have spent some time selecting which features of Visual Studio they need installed. A nice addition to the new Visual Studio Installer is …
To be helpful, browsers will cache information you enter in a form field. Then when you comeback and start typing, the same information will pop up near the field so you can click it to have it auto-entered for you. While this is useful, there are times you don’t want this behavior — like a …
Open a command prompt and enter the version command. This should return a version number. If you get something like the message below, .Net Core is not installed. You can also issue the info command to get a lot more information about your environment. If you want to actually look at the different .Net SDKs …
In JavaScript, the currently active element is said to have Focus, which means it’s the element being acted upon. Like a form field in which you are typing is said to have Focus. You can get the currently focused element with a simple reference on the Dom: This will return the element which has focus, …
JavaScript has an object called Set which will store any type with unique values — this can be a primitive value type (e.g. string, number, boolean, null, undefined, symbol) or even an object reference. Because a value in a Set may only occur once, it will eliminate duplicates when you add them. Use the .has() …
If you want to easily duplicate a line of code in Visual Studio Code, you can do it with a simple keyboard shortcut. Just use the Copy Line Down (Ctrl+Alt+UpArrow) or Copy Line Up commands (Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow) — depending on where you want the new line inserted with respect to your cursor. You can view all the shortcuts …
You can use the forEach() method to loop over an array and execute a function on each element of the array. For more information:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/forEach
I’ve recently begun playing with Electron (the library that lets you build cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies). And not long into trying to hook up my default HTML page I received this error: Not allowed to load local resource I was certain I’d typed the line to load the URL just like the tutorial …
Tree Shaking simply means removing dead code. Typically this is in the context of JavaScript. You can use a JavaScript module bundler — like Rollup or Webpack — to bundle multiple files into a single file and automatically remove your dead code.