I initially felt that a few things in Vim are just…meh. I want my tabs to take up 4 spaces instead of 9. I want syntax highlighting for LESS or TypeScript. There are better ways, right? You can customize Vim by creating a .vimrc file in your home directory. vim ~/.vimrc Tab Settings Quick primer: … More Tricks with Vim
Hello, NuGet I find NuGet to be pretty awesome. Even though it’s several years old, it still has that new car smell to me. We recently started using the NuGet Package Restore feature, which has helped improve our CI builds. But like leather bucketseats, the feature I’ve wanted to have for a few years is … More Creating Your Own NuGet Package, Part 1
Automagically Using NuGet with a Project Want to automate things even more? For this example, find a Class Library project that you like. Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder where the .csproj file for that project is. nuget spec Bam. Now you have a .nuspec file created automatigically. You’ll notice some strings … More Creating Your Own NuGet Package, Part 2
If you use NuGet package sources, you will need to add a new package source to your preferences in Visual Studio. In VS 2012 and 2013, this is under Tools –> Options –> Library Package Manager –> Package Manager Settings –> Package Sources). If you want to try out a cool new trick: Ctrl + Q package sources … More Adding other NuGet Package Sources in Visual Studio
Now we can see the new package source on our machines, and download all kinds of fun things from it. But how do we give other servers (e.g. a build server) knowledge of this new package source? NuGet already thought of this (thank you kindly). Check out the NuGet.targets file (once you’ve enabled Package Restore on the … More Using additional NuGet Package Sources on a Build Server
Setting Up Your NuGet Package Source Assuming this is for internal use only, your best bet is likely going to be creating an internal nuget server or creating a network share (the network share is considerably slower than the nuget server) to house all of your NuGet packages. If this is meant to be externally accessible, then you … More Setting Up Your NuGet Package Source
After about 3 hours of frustrating debugging, I came across a quirk/bug when using: MVC .NET 2.0 / 3.5 Model binding a collection Imagine you have a collection of, say User objects. And you would like to bind that collection to your view, but you only want to display some of the users. For example, only admin users. Your … More Model binding a collection with MVC and .NET 2.0
