GitHub Copilot Extensions: Collecting Feedback in a VS Code Copilot Extension
In the first post of this series, we introduced GitHub Copilot Extensions and discussed the two types of extensions. Client side and server side extensions.
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2024
GitHub Copilot Extensions: Adding followup prompts in a VS Code Extension
In the first post of this series, we introduced GitHub Copilot Extensions and discussed the two types of extensions. Client side and server side extensions.
GitHub Copilot Extensions: Using Context in a VS Code Extension
In the first post of this series, we introduced GitHub Copilot Extensions and discussed the two types of extensions. Client side and server side extensions.
GitHub Copilot Extensions: Integrating an LLM into a VS Code Extension
In the first post of this series, we introduced GitHub Copilot Extensions and discussed the two types of extensions. Client side and server side extensions.
GitHub Copilot Extensions: Creating a VS Code Copilot Extension
In the first post of this series, we introduced GitHub Copilot Extensions and discussed the two types of extensions. Client side and server side extensions.
GitHub Copilot Extensions
On September 17, GitHub announced the public preview of GitHub Copilot Extensions, enabling developers to extend Copilot's capabilities by creating and insta...
GitHub Codespaces: Developing GUI Applications 3/3
Third post of a series of three about running GUI applications on GitHub Codespaces.
GitHub Codespaces: Developing GUI Applications 2/3
Second post of a series of three about running GUI applications on GitHub Codespaces.
GitHub Codespaces: Developing GUI Applications 1/3
GitHub Codespaces allows you to develop in the cloud, with a fully featured development environment that is spun up in seconds. It is a great way to develop ...
2023
GitHub Actions: Accessing content from other repositories 2/2
In the first post of this series I discussed how to access content from other repositories using the actions/checkout and the different authentication method...
GitHub Actions: Accessing content from other repositories 1/2
By default, GitHub Actions only allows access to the current repository. However, there are scenarios where you need to access content from other repositorie...
2019
How to add user enabled feature flags to your Azure DevOps Extensions
Azure DevOps is quite an extensible product product; you can develop your extensions that can be used privately on your organization or made publicly availab...
Blog Migration
I've decided many months ago to migrate my blog from WordPress to jekyll.
2017
VSTS: Collect Telemetry for build and release tasks using Application Insights
Developers of extensions for Visual Studio Team Services (or Team Foundation Server) tend to use Application Insights to collect telemetry about their extens...
VSTS: Generating badges for Releases
Visual Studio Team Services (and Team Foundation Server) supports build badges out of the box giving you an URL for an image that can be embedded in a web pa...
2016
2014
Visual Studio Online hubot scripts replies formatting
I have previously blogged about using Hubot with Visual Studio Online on:
Visual Studio Online hubot scripts updated to support API V1.0
I have previously blogged about using Hubot with Visual Studio Online on:
First NetPonto Community Windows Phone Hackaton (Lisbon)
On the 1st of February, NetPonto community is going to host it’s first hackaton.
2013
Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer: version 2.7.8 released
[Update 16 Oct] I’ve decided to remove this version from the download since it has a few annoying bugs. I will release a fixed version next week]
Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer: version .7.6 released
New release of my Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer (previous versions .7.5, .7, 2.6.2 (update2 only), 0.6.1, 0.6 , 0.5 , 0.4 , 0.3 , 02 and 0.1 ).
Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer: version 0.5 released
[Update: Version 0.6 released]
2012
Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer: version 0.4 released
[Update: Version 0.5 has been released]
Team Foundation Task Board Enhancer: version 0.3 released
[Update: If you are here looking for a way to see blocked tasks, then take a look at version 0.6 which already has this feature] [Update: Version 0.4 released]
Developer 0.0
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee Why? Last December I did a presentation on Netponto, a Portuguese .Net user gro...
2011
ALM Rangers shipped Lab Management Guide
The ALM Rangers Lab Management Guide has gone gold and the RTM version has been released into the wild.
Help Improve Visual Studio performance
Performance is something that we can never have enough off. Nobody minds if things would go faster,in fact we always want things to go faster now matter how ...
MS Test Manager– Registering why a test is blocked
This week I was at a client and I have been asked if it is possible to register the reason why a test is blocked.
Getting Visual Studio version of a Solution file
In the previous post I talked about how we could determine the installation path of a given Visual Studio version, in this post I’m going to talk a little ho...
OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010: Beta now available
Microsoft has released a beta version of an OData service for TFS 2010. This is great way for people wanting to get data from TFS without having to use the o...
Visual Studio and TFS Books
I’m asked fairly frequently which books I recommend about Visual Studio or TFS, so I decided to write some words about it to see if I get this asked less fre...
Bootstrapping my blog. Round III
This is my third attempt to start blogging regularly.