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A Quick First Look At Visual Studio 2026

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Edition has been released. It’s the preview of the next version of Visual Studio, and there are things both nice and meh about it so far. I take a quick look, sight unseen, and give some initial impressions of what’s coming for the VS fam.

Friday, September 26, 2025 | 1 minute Read
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Gulp Build Not Working In Visual Studio But Works On Command Line

I’ve been working quite a bit with a project recently that uses gulp to build the CSS and JavaScript files in Visual Studio from the Task Runner Explorer. Recently, this build suddenly stopped working and I couldn’t figure out why. It ran just fine from the command prompt, but in Task Runner Explorer, it threw all kinds of errors. This is an older project and requires an older version of NodeJs and gulp to be installed.

Thursday, August 20, 2020 | 2 minutes Read
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My Go-To Visual Studio Extensions

There are a number of extensions for Visual Studio that I always keep installed. Time and again they’ve proven their value for me. Maybe they can do the same for you. I haven’t made the full transition from VS2015 to VS2017 as i use 2015 at work and 2017 at home. Some of these have different versions between the two VS versions. The links below are all to the 2015 versions in those cases.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 | 3 minutes Read