This weeks Friday Dev Tip is a quick one but very useful. When using Visual Studio (2013 or greater), pressing and holding the Ctrl key when the Intellisense tooltip appears will make it go transparent so you can see any code underneath it. No more pressing Esc and having to...
MS Teams has quickly grown in usage within organizations over the last 12-18months. It's easy to see why - it's simple to use and ties into an organization's existing security policies very easily. The only snag some people have with it is that when...
Happy New Year and welcome to another Web Developer Monthly. To kick things off for 2019 this month's edition contains the definitive website performance checklist, links to download Visual Studio 2019, a tool to auto remove backgrounds from your images and more. If you've spotted anything...
This year I decided to try and get back to blogging a bit more in an effort to help track my own progress for things that I've learned throughout the year and also as a way to help others out. To help me focus on writing on a...
Right after I install Visual Studio, my next port of call is to update VS to automatically highlight the current file I'm working on in the Solution Explorer. This can be handy if you need to quick find the file you're working on to figure out...
Most of the time when you want to take a screenshot you probably use the Snipping Tool built into Windows or another third party program like Greenshot but did you know that if you're using Windows 10 (creators edition or greater) you can take a screenshot by simply...
Welcome to another Web Developer Monthly. This month's edition contains news about Visual Studio 2019, really cool Goolge performance tools, jaw dropping CodePens and more. If you've spotted anything you'd like me to share for the next Web Developer Monthly let me know in...
In most databases today there are columns that contain thousands of characters of text. In some cases this information needs to be returned to an end user on a busy section of your site, for example a search feature. If someone does a search on your site usually you will...
If you're using Visual Studio Code and want to share a screenshot of what you're working on I highly recommend using Polacode. It can be a little tricky following the steps from the official gif (as seen above) but essentially you just do the following: * Search...