Skip to content

April 2024

Photo by Jonny Lew: https://www.pexels.com/photo/selective-focus-photography-of-gray-and-blue-moth-perched-on-brown-surface-1212755/

New Visual Studio Solution File Format

Yes, you read that right! Visual Studio is recreating its solution files, which have remained unchanged throughout my 15 years in this industry and I think this is great and anticipated improvement.

What is a solution file?

That is a great question. A Visual Studio solution file (.sln extension) is a important part of the Visual Studio development environment. It serves as a container for one or more projects …

Photo by brotiN biswaS: https://www.pexels.com/photo/selective-focus-photography-of-magazines-518543/

How to receive Azure Updates directly into your Slack

Microsoft provides a handy RSS feed for its Azure updates at https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/en-us/updates/feed/. This feed includes all updates related to services arriving with Preview and General Available status. As this is great information for everyone who is interested from Azure, I wanted to make this feed’s information available to everyone on our Slack (our companies main communication channel).

Slack offers built-in RSS readers, but I thought of implementing a reader …