Visual Studio Archives - Thomas Maurer Cloud and Datacenter Blog focusing on Microsoft Azure Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:46:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-icon1024-32x32.png Visual Studio Archives - Thomas Maurer 32 32 71605618 Create a Windows 10 development virtual machine https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/04/create-a-windows-10-development-virtual-machine/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/04/create-a-windows-10-development-virtual-machine/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:34:16 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=21360 If you want to create a Windows 10 development virtual machine (VM) on your Windows 10 device, Microsoft Hyper-V with the quick start gallery has you covered. So in this blog, we are going to have a look at how you can create a Windows 10 development virtual machine VM) on Windows 10. These are …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/04/create-a-windows-10-development-virtual-machine/feed/ 4 21360 Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/05/write-powershell-online-using-visual-studio-codespaces/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/05/write-powershell-online-using-visual-studio-codespaces/#comments Tue, 05 May 2020 05:31:16 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=16315 Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces. Visual Studio Codespaces allows you to do cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working. While the new services support many different programming and scripting languages, it also supports PowerShell. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/05/write-powershell-online-using-visual-studio-codespaces/feed/ 4 16315 How to host Tech Workshops and Trainings online https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/03/how-to-host-tech-training-online/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/03/how-to-host-tech-training-online/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:12:05 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=15743 I just got asked by one of my blog readers, who is a consultant and trainer, about what tools I use to give online tech workshops and trainings. I thought this would make a good blog post; that’s why I want to share with you how you can provide tech workshops and trainings online. This …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/03/how-to-host-tech-training-online/feed/ 4 15743 How to Create Great Tech Demos and Presentations https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-create-great-tech-demos-and-presentations/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-create-great-tech-demos-and-presentations/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:04:10 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13778 I didn’t keep track of the exact number, but I did many presentations at different conferences around the world. Since I am doing a lot of tech presentations and demos, I am always looking at how I can improve and get better. I start to realize that there are a lot of things you need …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/01/how-to-create-great-tech-demos-and-presentations/feed/ 9 13778 New Microsoft Code and Terminal Font Cascadia Code https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/09/new-microsoft-code-and-terminal-font-cascadia-code/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/09/new-microsoft-code-and-terminal-font-cascadia-code/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:04:17 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=13376 Cascadia Code is the latest monospaced font shipped from Microsoft focusing on delivering an excellent font for command-line experiences and code editors like Visual Studio Code. The Cascadia Code font was first announced at the Microsoft Build conference in May 2019. And yesterday, Microsoft just released Cascadia Code version 1909.16 and it is available publicly …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/09/new-microsoft-code-and-terminal-font-cascadia-code/feed/ 9 13376 Remote Edit Files on Azure Linux VMs using VS Code https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/07/remote-edit-files-on-azure-linux-vms-using-vs-code/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/07/remote-edit-files-on-azure-linux-vms-using-vs-code/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:41:57 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=12517 There are a lot of different ways to remote manage your Azure virtual machines using various tools and technics. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you can remotely edit files on Azure Linux virtual machines using Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code has a new Remote Development Extention which allows …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/07/remote-edit-files-on-azure-linux-vms-using-vs-code/feed/ 0 12517 Mastering Azure with Cloud Shell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/01/azure-cloud-shell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/01/azure-cloud-shell/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:44:02 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=11163 There are multiple ways to interact and manage resources in Microsoft Azure. You can use the Azure Portal or command line tools like the Azure PowerShell module or the Azure CLI, which you can install on your local machine. However, to set up a cloud management workstation for administrators and developers can be quite a …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2019/01/azure-cloud-shell/feed/ 25 11163 WLinux – The best WSL for Windows 10 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/11/wlinux/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/11/wlinux/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:51:33 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=10853 A couple of Windows 10 releases back, Microsoft delivered the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to run Linux distros, like Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and others, on Windows 10. Around the Microsoft Ignite 2018 timeframe, another distro was released to the Windows Store called WLinux. WLinux is a Linux environment …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/11/wlinux/feed/ 6 10853 You can now run a Visual Studio Code based editor in Azure Cloud Shell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/07/you-can-now-run-a-visual-studio-code-based-editor-in-azure-cloud-shell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/07/you-can-now-run-a-visual-studio-code-based-editor-in-azure-cloud-shell/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:15:20 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=9894 Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources, just got even more powerful. Today Microsoft added a new Visual Studio Code editor to Azure Cloud Shell. Okay, it is not the real Visual Studio Code, it is an editor based on the Visual Studio Code open-source project Monaco. Monaco is the same web-standards …

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]]> https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/07/you-can-now-run-a-visual-studio-code-based-editor-in-azure-cloud-shell/feed/ 0 9894 Connect to Azure Stack from Azure Cloud Shell https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/04/connect-to-azure-stack-from-azure-cloud-shell/ https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2018/04/connect-to-azure-stack-from-azure-cloud-shell/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:34:32 +0000 https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/?p=9418 A little while ago, Microsoft announced the Azure Cloud Shell. The Azure Cloud Shell is a perfect tool to manage your Azure resources using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. Wouldn’t it be great also to manage your resources running on Azure Stack? Thanks to the consistency between Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack, you …

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