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GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/15

For my link archive, as I will likely need this one day: [WayBack] GitHub – JensBorrisholt/GoogleSpeak: This repository demonstrates how to Use Google for implementing Text to Speech. You’ll find both a Delphi version and a C# version

–jeroen

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Version Control in Visual Studio Code: view Git output window

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/31

Since the Git output by default is not shown, here is how to enable it:

[WayBack] Version Control in Visual Studio Code: Git output window

You can always peek under the hood to see the Git commands we are using. This is helpful if something strange is happening or if you are just curious. :)

To open the Git output window, run View > Output and select Git from the dropdown.

Or shorter on MacOS:

  1. Press Cmd–Shift–P
  2. Type show git output
  3. Press enter

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Visual Studio and tools, vscode Visual Studio Code | Leave a Comment »

MacOS: starting Visual Studio Code from the finder

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/26

On MacOS, a long standing wish from many developers has been to open a folder with Visual Studio Code: [WayBack] Mac OS X :: “Open Folder With” VS Code · Issue #1223 · Microsoft/vscode · GitHub.

There are many reasons for wanting this, and other tools can do this too (like Terminal, TextWrangler, Source Tree, Beyond Compare), so I was a bit surprised Visual Studio Code does not have it by default.

After initially being closed, the issue has been open for a while, so I started digging a bit for solutions that are easy to configure or install.

The last one is currently on the top of my list, so I copied and installation instructions, and added a few screenshots to explain the already included video below.

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How to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge Assemblies? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/19

On my research list for Visual Studio 2017 and up: [WayBack] How to Integrate ILMerge into Visual Studio Build Process to Merge Assemblies? – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

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emulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files added by Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/26

Me at [WayBack] emulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files added by Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Stack Overflow:

Since after uninstalling the “Visual Studio Emulator for Android” component, you cannot get to the “AVD Manager” any more, you have to manually delete this directory:

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudioEmulator

This works for both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015.

In addition, you might want to run “AppWiz.cpl“, then remove “Android SDK Tools”, which is also not automatically removed by the Visual Studio installer (at least not in Visual Studio 2015).

This will get rid of the multi-gigabyte folder %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Android\android-sdk\

If you still need Android emulation, read these:

–jeroen

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Not all XSD mappings to programming language constructs are possible

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/26

This post is a reminder to myself that not all mappings from XSD to programming languages are possible.

There are many impossible cases, so this is just a general reminder.

A Delphi specific case for instance is the mapping of enumerations: one reason is that XSD enumerations are case sensitive, but the Delphi language is not: [WayBack] Using XML Enumerations with Delphi XML Data Binding Wizard – Stack Overflow.

More generic examples from my answer to the above question:

  • In XSD you can derive from an existing type in two ways: extending it and limiting it. Object Oriented languages only allow you extend when deriving.
  • Delphi is not alone in these kinds of limitations. Generating wrappers from XSD schema’s is the field of specialized tools, even in the Java or .NET world.

I’ve seen horrible things with wildcards that are sort of mappable to Java, but not to C#. This could likely go on for much longer…

–jeroen

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NuGet: migrate from packages.config to PackageReference with 3 clicks

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/19

Since I often forget to cleanup some bits of a migration: [WayBack] Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks:

Related:

–jeroen

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Scott Hanselman on Twitter: Learn C# in your browser, no install! Practice your .NET skills on an ChromeBook if you like! Your choice!

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/18

This is indeed an interesting live way to learn about C# even if you think you know most of it:

[WayBack] Scott Hanselman on Twitter: Learn C# in your browser, no install! Practice your .NET skills on an ChromeBook if you like! Your choice!

Here you go:

–jeroen

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Use the Visual Studio Code mssql extension for SQL Server | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/13

Since I really want to switch most of my SSMS usage to a tool being less resource intensive, as a truckload of my work is just running scripts, not browsing through data: [WayBack] Use the Visual Studio Code mssql extension for SQL Server | Microsoft Docs

This tutorial shows how to use the mssql extension for VS Code. This extension allows you to edit and run Transact-SQL scripts in VS Code.

This will also make it a lot easier to run my code from a Mac.

–jeroen

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Reminder to self: be aware of implicit setup/tear down code in methods

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/13

If a part of a method requires implicit setup/tear-down code (for instance when using managed types like arrays, strings, etc), especially in rarely taken execution paths, then consider putting that code in a separate method.

I bumped into this recently, and found out it does not just hold for Delphi, it can happen in other languages too.

A Delphi example I found back is this one: [WayBack] Delphi Corner Weblog: Speed problems caused by code that never ran.

The problem with Delphi is that the language does not have local scope (variables are at the start of the method) which means the penalty is for the full method.

I bumped into this in C# where a piece of legacy code had the variables declared away from the block where they finally were used.

This historically grew, because originally they were used in more placed of the code.

The refactoring limiting the scope just never put the declaration close to the usage hence violating the proximity principle.

Via: [WayBack] Ouch! Code that doesn’t get executed can still cause other code in the same procedure to become much slower. Of course, in retrospect, once you know the… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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