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Last Updated: 1/30/2017 Table of Contents Background Pattern Matching Subtleties with HtmlTargetElement “OR” Operations “AND” Operations Sending Parent Attribute Values Down to Child Elements Reading Child Elements from a Parent […]
Last Updated: 9/30/2016 Background Time and time again, developers inherit legacy applications and criticize a former team member’s coding style. “On which planet does this coding cowboy live where this incoherent sequence of […]
Last Updated: 8/4/2016 Setting the Stage When taking inventory of JSON editors, Visual Studio proper likely isn’t at the forefront of many developers’ minds. Some deem it a brawny dynamo of a .NET […]
7/27/2016 Update: As of this merged pull request, it’s now possible to install the SignalR JavaScript client via npm with the following command: npm i -S https://github.com/signalr/bower-signalr Alternatively, you can target […]
Last Updated: 10/8/2016 Setting the Stage: The Need for an Extensibility Point As of the 1.1.0-insider release of Visual Studio Code, there is support for configuring which command shell launches […]
Last Updated: 4/10/2016 No file extension?!? What now? With the topic of JavaScript fatigue dwelling in the limelight as of late, one might wonder how editors such as Visual Studio (VS) […]
Last Updated: 1/18/2016 The Problem Imagine being assigned to a project team on which discord is abound in regards to the editor or IDE to be used for the development […]
Last Updated: 12/30/2015 I recently embarked on a Single Page Application (SPA) project in which React was to be used with ASP.NET Core 1.0 (RC1) and Webpack. Due to some […]
Last Updated: 10/22/2015 As your JavaScript code base grows and evolves, the need for a solid unit testing story becomes paramount. It isn’t always the case in the real world, but […]
Last Updated: 7/24/2016 Within an older blog post, entitled “Webpackin’ your ES 2015 / Angular 1.x SPA“, I explained how to use npm scripts to execute Webpack commands. To quickly recap, […]
Last Updated: 9/26/2015 Occasionally, a modern web developer will encounter the need or the desire to install an NPM module globally on his or her machine. This may become a more […]
Last Updated: 9/9/2015 It was at Microsoft’s TechEd North America 2013 conference in New Orleans where I first heard the announcement that Visual Studio’s “One ASP.NET” templates would begin including Bootstrap. […]
Last Updated: 8/26/2015 One of the lesser known features of Gulp is the Babel support introduced in version 3.9 of the CLI. By the way, Babel is the de facto […]
Last Updated: 8/16/2015 This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the fourth annual That Conference in Wisconsin Dells. Something I’ve always admired about this particular developers’ conference is its Open […]
Last Updated: 7/14/2015 Since 2010, the Microsoft development community has been using NuGet for package management in Visual Studio. Prior to this, developers would’ve entered into a laborious voyage with their favorite search […]
Last Updated: 2/24/2016 After watching Pete Hunt’s OSCON 2014 video on how Instagram.com was built, I felt inspired to learn more about Webpack. Up to this point, I had been […]
