Debug TypeScript Unit Test with Jest and VsCode

If you are using create-react-app or the TypeScript equivalent react-script-ts for TypeScript, you see that the default testing framework is Jest. This is developed by Facebook like React and Redux. Jest procures many advantages like being fast. It doesn’t need to load a browser headless or being in a browser at all. It is also […]

Compiling Individual TypeScript File with VSCode

TypeScript is used to compile TypeScript .ts into JavaScript .js. The basic setup is to have a tsconfig.json file that indicate what file to include, and which files to exclude. Almost everyone is having a Gulp/Grunt task that will execute the compilation, some goes a step ahead with having a watcher that looks for changes […]

Visual Studio Code and Debugging Gulp Script

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VSCode) has the capability to debug TypeScript, JavaScript and a lot of other languages. One interesting thing is that Visual Studio Code can also debug Gulp script (written in JavaScript). This is very useful since writing code that become complex is easier with good step through capabilities. To do so, we […]

Visual Studio Code with NPM and TypeScript (Part 1 : NPM)

Creating a new project that use TypeScript with Visual Studio code can be not as straight forward as expected. A quick search on the web shows dozen of different ways and none of them are the same. Most current example are out of date or use so many npm packages that it’s hard to follow […]

How to use Visual Studio 2015 with ASP.NET MVC5 and TypeScript 2.1+

TypeScript is a wonderful language for front-end developing. It helps by make front-end code feels like C#. At the end you compile the TypeScript code in JavaScript like if you had do without TypeScript. The first step is to setup Visual Studio to use TypeScript. On the official website, there is instruction for Asp.Net MVC4 […]

Using Application Insight with Visual Studio for Azure Website

Working with production code is not always easy when it comes the time to fix issue. Application Insight is a free service on Microsoft Azure that allow to do a lot and one of the feature is to integrate with Visual Studio. In this article, we will see how Application Insight can improve the speed […]

Continuous Integration (CI) with C# .Net and Travis-CI

I am a big fan of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) as well as a developer on this platform. However, if you are doing open source project, you cannot benefit of VSTS. The reason is that everything is private. Microsoft is also using alternative company like GitHub to host public project, so am I! However, […]

VsCode and TypeScript

Visual Studio Code has a good article about how to configure VsCode and TypeScript but I wanted to give more detail about how to setup everything in a more straight forward way. This article talks about how to use VsCode in a way that every time you save a TypeScript file that this one generate […]

Improving Visual Studio and MsBuild Speed for Large Solution

I am working on a side project that is a single solution with 51 projects. The amount of project is considered “big” for 2016 while it was still considered “medium” few years ago. For some reason, Visual Studio doesn’t handles very well project with more than 50 projects. I could refactor the solution by consolidating […]

How to diagnostic slow code with Visual Studio

During the development of one feature, I noticed the performance to be very slow in some scenario. It was not obvious at first because the task was to simply update a user profile. The user profile in question is stored in a single table. It’s a pretty straight forward task. Before persisting the data, some […]