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Month: January 2018

The First C# Code Snippets You Should Memorize (Visual Studio Code)

The First C# Code Snippets You Should Memorize (Visual Studio Code)

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Code snippets are pre-written portions of code that you can summon with just a few keypresses. By automatically setting up much of the syntax required in common programming language structures, snippets speed up the mundane parts of coding.

Depending on the size of its content, a particular code snippet will save you anything from the small handful of keypresses it takes to set up the curly brackets of an if statement to the several lines of code it takes to write the skeleton of an entire class or method.

Plus, they are just plain fun to use. Look at all the code that I get “for free” here:

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Taming Repetitive & Hard-to-Remember Console Commands

Taming Repetitive & Hard-to-Remember Console Commands

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Or, “How to Quell Your Complicated and Repetitive Command-Line Actions with Easy Aliases and Short Shell Scripts”, if you like long titles.

Sometimes I feel as if I end up typing a single handful of command-line commands over and over again all day. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I do spend a goodly amount of my day at the command line. As part of my workflow, I always have at least three terminal windows open in order to run the various portions of whatever web app I have my hands on:

  • One terminal running the front-end web server
  • Another running the back-end service,
  • And a third running a database inside of a Docker vm.

My little story about forgetfulness

The front-end and back-end processes can be launched once and left running for most of the day without any extra intervention. The Docker container running the database, on the other hand, needs to be stopped and re-started every time I or a coworker alters the format of the project’s database. If I don’t re-start the container, then I won’t see the changes that were made to the database.

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