A while ago I bumped into the error [Wayback/Archive] .net – The library hostpolicy.dll was not found – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Nate Barbettini for asking) which prevented me to debug in Visual Studio Code, but none of the answers applied to my case, so I added this one: Read the rest of this entry »
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Can’t debug a .NET project in Visual Studio Code on Windows? Answered in “.net – The library hostpolicy.dll was not found – Stack Overflow”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/19
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Overlay of commands / shortcuts / keys pressed – Screencast Mode · Issue #981 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/23
This is a reminder to check if this below late 2019 proposal inspired by Visual Studio Code Screencast mode¹ already made it: [Wayback/Archive] Overlay of commands / shortcuts / keys pressed – Screencast Mode · Issue #981 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub which mentions some tools that can already do this
Here is a list of FOSS apps that currently do this (sorted by stars):
- github.com/Code52/carnac – Unmaintained, does not work on most applications
- github.com/Phaiax/Key-n-Stroke
- github.com/marius-sucan/KeyPress-OSD – Commercial version available
- https://github.com/Jagailo/YetAnotherKeyDisplayer
- mulaRahul/keyviz – Quite new and looks good
To add to this list (unsorted):
- github.com/nutti/Screencast-Keys – Blender addon
- github.com/AxDSan/KeyPose – free alternative to MousePosé for Windows
- github.com/keycastr/keycastr – macOS only
In the meantime, I am using Key-n-Stroke as it is the only still supported one I found that is easily turned off/on when typing sensitive content like passwords:
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File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/01
Oops, I thought this had been published a long time ago, but oh well: it is never too late to publish reflections on a C# programming language improvement.
After recovering from my rectum cancer treatments and finally upgrading most of my projects to recent enough C# versions, it was time to catch up on useful little C# language features released during my treatments.
This one is really nice: [Wayback/Archive] File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn.
I wish it had been released much earlier, as it so much reminds me of the unit keyword in Delphi which influenced C# a lot. Well, actually the unit actually started in UCSD Pascal and Turbo Pascal; UCSD Pascal ran on the UCSD p-Machine (more on that in a future blog post), which influenced the Java Virtual Machine, which was based on Java bytecode and a Just-in-time compiler in turn influenced the .NET Common Language Runtime.
There are many examples from other languages, paradigms and frameworks: I love how C# and .NET bring so much programming history together.
In Delphi it is easy: a source file can contain at maximum one unit (and apart from files included in that source file, no other source files can contribute to that unit) and the filename needs to match the unitname, so the unit is a self contained namespace.
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For my link archive: 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
Hopefully by now I have given GitHub Copilot so I can put this link from a while back into more perspective: [Wayback/Archive] 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog.
I saved it for my link archive as these thought processes take me a while. The conceptual thing here is if I want to pay for products that harvest profit from the enormous time and effort invested by open source authors (in this case even after the fact, as there was no way to opt out while most of the harvesting took place). See my earlier post On my list of extensions to try in vscode: tab nine.
An alternative for parts of GitHub Copilot might be the (then working title) TLDR from [Wayback/Archive] Beyond Code (German and have the domain beyondco.de). Read the rest of this entry »
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Delphi and SonarQube: great open source additions in the last few years.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12
In the past, I mentioned that the open source SonarQube by SonarSource was on my “research list” in a few blog posts* as I am a fan of static code analysis **, and now it is time to amend them with the current state for using it in Delphi.
SonarSource products
- SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) is an open core product for static code analysis, with additional features offered in commercial editions.
- SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) offers free analysis of open source projects.
- SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) is a free IDE extension for static analysis.
For more history on them, see [Wayback/Archive] About – Sonar and SonarSource | Sonar.
Delphi integration
There are two open source integrations: for ConarQube Server, and Linting, both maintained by the same company ([Wayback/Archive] IntegraDev · GitHub):
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I was today years old when I found there is a shortcut to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12
Boy, I always to the Ctrl+Shift+Space on Microsoft Windows (or on MacOS Command+Shift+Space) detour to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code
So I was amazed to find the shortcut inside the first bullet in the Google Search quote of the first result at [Wayback/Archive] vscode terminal open new terminal – Recherche Google:
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Visual Studio Code: copying text when none is selected.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19
Last week, I wrote that I switched to Visual Studio Code for most of my text based coding: Visual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet.
I also use vscode for documentation and text writing, which – yes sometimes I am a copy/paste person too – means you want a bit more flexibility than just copying the selected text.
In most of my previous development tools, either the tool itself, or a plugin, would allow me to copy the word under the cursor if none was selected.
I wanted to change that behaviour too and become more flexible.
So I did some searches:
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Getting the list of vscode extensions when it upgraded to a version not supported on the platform any more (and packing your extensions in a .vsix list package)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/02
While moving from ancient hardware to more modern hardware, somehow Visual Studio Code had updated itself to a version that didn’t support the underlying operating system any more. Bummer!
Normally I would get the list of extensions through this command (which is listed in many places, like in my blog post How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow), but also for instance answered in the below question by [WaybackSave/Archive] Benny Ng):
code --list-extensions
That obviously would not work, but thanks to [Wayback/Archive] How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Andrew and [Wayback/Archive] MarkP) I now could do this:
ls -alh ~/.vscode/extensions
(That directory obviously is also in various forms of official documentation like in the the Your Extensions Folder section of [Wayback/Archive] Publishing Extensions | Visual Studio Code Extension API.
A comment to the above question pointed me to an interesting way to automate extension installs on various machines: pack the installed extension list into its own .vsix file:
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Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations (VScode extension).
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/23
This is cool!
[Wayback/Archive] looker-open-source/malloy: Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations.
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When Microsoft download URLs time out: check if it other IP addresses for the same host do work fine (it might be a regional Microsoft CDN issue)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/28
A while back, early in the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday I performed regular updates of all the systems noticing some updates failed because timeouts on the Microsoft download servers.
Note I perform the manual steps on Wednesday as Patch Tuesday as it starts at 10:00 AM PST which is in the evening in Amsterdam. The automated steps are automated and kick in when Microsoft tells the Windows machines to update themselves.
See [Wayback/Archive] Security Update Guide FAQs
Microsoft schedules the release of security updates on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM PST.
Depending on time zone(s) in which the organization operates, IT pros should plan their deployment schedules accordingly. Please note that there are some products that do not follow the Patch Tuesday schedule.
I posted a gist and a Tweet, but didn’t immediately thought of a good resolution so I postponed that until Thursday and found it:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 