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Create a Windows 10 development virtual machine

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:34:16 +0000

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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Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:31:16 +0000

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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How to host Tech Workshops and Trainings online

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:12:05 +0000

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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Create and Manage Azure VMs from VS Code

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 06:11:12 +0000

With the new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), you can now create and manage Azure VMs directly from VS Code. This is a great new extension if you are working with VS Code and Microsoft Azure. The extension is currently in preview and lets you view, create, delete, start …

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You can now run a Visual Studio Code based editor in Azure Cloud Shell

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:15:20 +0000

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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My Favorite Visual Studio Code Themes

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:34:50 +0000

While I am doing presentations, I often do demos, and since a lot of my demos are PowerShell based, I use a lot of Visual Studio Code. With that I often get the question which is the Visual Studio Code Theme I use. Even I change my Visual Studio Code Themes pretty often, I have a …

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Azure Cloud Shell – shell.azure.com and in Visual Studio Code

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:31:46 +0000

Back in May Microsoft made the Azure Cloud Shell available in the Microsoft Azure Portal. Now you can use it even quicker by just go to shell.azure.com. First you login with your Microsoft account or Work and School account, and if your account is in multiple Azure Active Directory tenants, you select the right tenant …

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PowerShell for Visual Studio Code 1.0 – Your improved PowerShell ISE

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 11 May 2017 13:20:59 +0000

Microsoft yesterday not only announced the new Azure Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell 4.0, they also announced something I was waiting for a long time. Microsoft finally announced the version 1 of the PowerShell for Visual Studio Code with a lot for great enhancements. David Wilson describes this on the PowerShell Team blog. This supports the …

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Microsoft WebMatrix and Microsoft WebPlatform Installer

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:30:50 +0000

For a project at KTSI we needed a platform to quick deploy PHP and MySQL applications. There are a lot of solutions out there in the web, for example XAMPP. After testing some options I had a closer look at the Microsoft WebPlatform Installer and Microsoft WebMatrix. Those two tools do exactly what I need. With the …

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Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:11:40 +0000

Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio. You can download the Update from MSDN. There is also an update for the PowerGUI Extension for Visual Studio 2010. You can get this from Codeplex or in Visual Studio in the Extension Manager. PowerGUI VSX 1.3.3

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