Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
2 min read visual studio , vsix

Shows how to modify an existing extension to support Visual Studio 2019

2 min read visual studio , vsix

I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility project in Visual...

3 min read visual studio , vsix

Having great samples to help you learn about any programming language or paradigm can be very valuable. In my opinion, a good sample can be characterized by: Being easy to replicate Having clear steps that guide the...

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Building extensions for Visual Studio has its challenges, but as the new PM on the extensibility team I’ve made it my mission to make it easier. One way of doing that is to provide features that can take some of the pain...

3 min read asp.net

Earlier this week I wrote about some experiments I was doing with Service Workers in ASP.NET Core. This is an update to that. So, what is a Progressive Web App (PWA)? A Progressive Web App uses modern web capabilities to...

2 min read asp.net

Update : The information in the blog post is outdated. Instead check out Progressive Web Apps made easy with ASP.NET Core . What if you could make your ASP.NET Core web app faster to load and work offline without...

5 min read asp.net

MiniBlog.Core is a new and powerful blog platform built on ASP.NET Core 2.0 and provides an excellent reading experience across devices. It achieves that through following the latest best practices for web development...

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ASP.NET Core doesn’t add an ETag header automatically to HTTP responses from MVC action methods or Razor Pages. We have to implement that ourselves to provide the users with true Conditional GET support that honors the...

3 min read Web Essentials , Visual Studio

In an episode of .NET Rocks from December 2016 I declared that Web Essentials would not be carried forward to Visual Studio 2017 and beyond. I’ve decided that was a bad idea, released a version for Visual Studio 2017 and...

3 min read Web Essentials , Visual Studio , Client-side

For the past couple of years, Web Essentials have been including features for bundling and minifying JS and CSS files as well as compiling LESS, Sass and CoffeeScript. As of Web Essentials 2015 that is no longer the...