Category Archives: Technical

Turbocharge VS Code for Angular Development

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Tony Sneed

I like using Visual Studio Code for my Angular development, because it is TypeScript-friendly, supports in-editor Chrome Debugging, and has numerous extensions for boosting productivity.  In this post I’d like to show how you can turbocharge VS Code to make … Continue reading →

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Scaffold an Express Front End with Angular CLI

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Tony Sneed

In my last post I explained how to build scalable Web API’s with Express and Async/Await.  The next chapter in the story is to build a cross-platform front end that consumes the back end Web API.  While there are a number … Continue reading →

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Scalable Web API’s with Express and Async-Await

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Tony Sneed

If you’re a C# developer, you’ve most likely fallen in love with async / await. It makes writing asynchronous code as natural as writing non-asynchronous code, resulting in code that is easier to read, debug and maintain. The exciting news is … Continue reading →

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Now is a Great Time to Learn TypeScript

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Tony Sneed

Today I am pleased to share some exciting news.  I just finished authoring a new 5-day course on TypeScript! Essential TypeScript 2.0 with Visual Studio Code It is timed to coincide with the 2.0 release of TypeScript, a relatively new programming language … Continue reading →

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Simple MVVM Toolkit – It Lives!

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Tony Sneed

Update: Version 1.0 of Simple MVVM Toolkit Express has now been released and is based on version 1.0 RTM of .NET Core: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimpleMvvmToolkit.Express. Source code and samples can be found here: https://github.com/SimpleMvvm Now that .NET Core is stable and RC2 … Continue reading →

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Getting Visual Studio Code Ready for TypeScript: Part 3

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Tony Sneed

Part 3: Injecting Scripts with Gulp This is the third part in a series of blog posts on Getting Visual Studio Code Ready for TypeScript: Compiling TypeScript to JavaScript Writing Jasmine Tests in TypeScript Injecting Scripts with Gulp (this post) Leveraging … Continue reading →

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Getting Visual Studio Code Ready for TypeScript: Part 2

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Tony Sneed

Part 2: Writing Jasmine Tests in TypeScript This is the second part in a series of blog posts on Getting Visual Studio Code Ready for TypeScript: Compiling TypeScript to JavaScript Writing Jasmine Tests in TypeScript (this post) Jasmine vs Mocha + Chai + … Continue reading →

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Getting Visual Studio Code Ready for TypeScript

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Tony Sneed

Part 1: Compiling TypeScript to JavaScript This is the first part in a series of blog posts on Getting Visual Studio Code Ready for TypeScript: Compiling TypeScript to JavaScript (this post) Writing Jasmine Tests in TypeScript Why TypeScript? In case … Continue reading →

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Using EF6 with ASP.NET MVC Core 1.0 (aka MVC 6)

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Tony Sneed

This week Microsoft announced that it is renaming ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0.  In general I think this is a very good step.  Incrementing the version number from 4 to 5 for ASP.NET gave the impression that ASP.NET 5 … Continue reading →

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WCF Is Dead and Web API Is Dying – Long Live MVC 6!

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Tony Sneed

The time has come to start saying goodbye to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).  Yes, there are plenty of WCF apps in the wild — and I’ve built a number of them.  But when it comes to selecting a web services … Continue reading →

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