Visual Studio

Postman is a great tool to showcase how APIs work. The collections for commercetools are very sophisticated and provide all the details you need in order to demo their capabilities. However, sometimes it is just great to know alternative ways to demo certain aspects. Especially from a developer perspective, Visual Studio Code seems to be the de-facto standard nowadays. VS Code has a huge ecosystem of extensions available … and one of these is REST Client created by Huachao Mao. Here is the link to the GitHub project also with documentation and additional examples. REST Client allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly. ...

… or rather: good things come to those who wait. Yesterday, I planned to install Visual Studio 2008 on a Vista machine. Sounds like not much of a challenge, but the problem was that I previously installed VS 2008 Beta2. I knew that there might be things to consider, so I followed Scott Guthrie’s blog post where he describes all necessary steps to uninstall VS 2008 Beta2 before installing the VS 2008 Final Release. During uninstall everything went just fine. So, I started VS 2008 setup. It first installed .NET Framework 3.5 which seemed to be okay. But then suddenly the setup stopped without any reason or error message. ...

Background: Winsock LSPs and why they break ASP.NET In 2007 it was very common for laptops to ship with mobile broadband software — UMTS / HSDPA dongles or built-in 3G modems came with bundled connection managers from Vodafone, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, and others. A lot of that software installed a Layered Service Provider (LSP) into the Windows Winsock chain so it could intercept and inspect TCP/IP traffic for connection management, traffic accounting, or “smart” routing between Wi-Fi and cellular. ...