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Today I Learned

TIL - Today I Learned

A collection of small tips and tricks inspired by this post in Simon Willison’s Weblog

Jenkins

• Use Nerdbank.GitVersioning in a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline - 2020-05-26

Visual Studio

• Turn Off visible whitespace characters in Visual Studio - 2020-05-17

• Add New Class (Keyboard Shortcut) - 2020-08-23

• Exclude tests from Live Unit Testing - 2020-12-09

.NET / C#

• Analyzer Project Reference - 2020-05-02

• Create a MSBuild binary log - 2020-05-02

• Do not append TargetFramework to output path - 2020-05-04

• Use a common output directory for multiple projects - 2020-05-08

• Don’t use System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName() - 2020-05-11

• .NET Core Installation - 2020-05-24

• .NET Core Release Index - 2020-05-24

• Specify the command name for a .NET Core tool - 2020-06-09

• dotnet test settings in project files - 2020-07-16

• NuGet Restore Techniques - 2020-09-04

• Version comparisons in MSBuild conditions - 2020-10-17

• Styling Console Output - 2020-10-24

• How is nullability of reference types saved to assemblies - 2020-11-02

• MSBuild Change Waves - 2020-11-11

• Enable TAB completion for the .NET CLI - 2020-11-11

• MSBuild MSBuild TargetFramework and TargetPlatform property functions - 2020-11-11

• .NET CLI environment variables to set on CI systems - 2020-11-20

• Customize Name of Embedded Resource - 2020-12-03

• Assembly.Location and Assembly.CodeBase are problematic for .NET 5’s single file publishing - 2020-12-09

• C# Predefined Constants - 2020-12-09

• Customize Output path when copying items - 2020-12-11

• Define Feature Flags as compiler constants for conditional compilation - 2020-12-11

• Include Content Files in NuGet packages - 2020-12-11

• Windows Forms in .NET 5 includes enhancements to the ListView control - 2020-12-11

• Windows Forms in .NET 5 includes a Task Dialog control - 2020-12-11

• dotnet test output formats - 2020-12-23

Powershell

• Casting string to bool checks if string is empty - 2020-05-13

• Powershell Classes - 2020-05-24

• Default Parameter Values - 2020-05-24

• Get the name of the currently running script - 2020-05-24

• Powershell Cmdlets for GitHub - 2020-05-24

• Validation Attributes - 2020-11-17

• Powershell Location History - 2020-12-09

MkDocs

• Use the Markdown-Include extension with MkDocs - 2020-05-30

Outlook

• Always paste as plain text - 2020-11-12

Renovate Bot

• Share Renovate configuration between repositories - 2020-06-19

Google Chrome

• Print to PDF in headless mode - 2020-12-04

AsciiDoc

• Include a hyperlink in a quote’s citation - 2020-10-17

• Define nested blocks - 2020-10-24

• Use code blocks in lists - 2020-10-24

GitHub

• Configure editor used by GitHub CLI - 2020-10-04

Windows Terminal

• Use Custom Color Schemes - 2020-10-24

Groovy

• Get value or default from a Map - 2020-10-28

Git

• Get change date - 2020-05-02

• Check for uncommitted changes - 2020-05-21

• Remove a submodule from a repository - 2020-05-30

• Useful git aliases - 2020-06-02

• Clone a git repository with submodules - 2020-06-04

• Delete a git tag - 2020-06-10

• git log Options - 2020-09-30

• Partially Commit Files - 2020-10-24

• Get pretty command line diff using diff-so-fancy - 2020-10-24

• Use 3-way merge - 2020-10-24

• Reduce risk of force-push by using --force-with-lease - 2020-11-11

• git instaweb provides a web inteface for viewing a local repository - 2020-12-09

• ohshitgit.com provides help on how to undo common git mistakes - 2020-12-11