Stylecop ignore folder migrations of Entity Framework and ef core

I wanted to stop Stylecop from flagging errors in the migrations folder for Entity Framework, in the end, I managed to do this by including a .editorconfig file inside the Migrations folder with contents as below. In theory, the generated_code = true, but in my case, I found that I had to specify the rule explicitly.

Should work for all analyzers BTW

[*.cs]
generated_code = true
dotnet_diagnostic.SA1413.severity = none

Windows 7 Chrome View Password Manager Vault Crashes Windows Password

When trying to view a saved chrome password in the chrome password manager

chrome://settings/passwords

we are prompted to enter our windows password in a normal windows message box, but in that box when we enter the correct password or click cancel, the whole chrome crashes.

After a lot of searching I found that the solution was to create a shortcut for chrome and launch it with flag / option

 --disable-features=CredUIPromptForWindowsCredentials

in the shortcut target

This caused a different popup window to come up for the password, and this one actually works

I hope this helps someone else

Very good Regular Expressions (RegEx) tutorial

The best I found on the web so far for learning or refreshing RegEx knowledge:

http://regexone.com/

And a very good site for writing and testing RegExes on the fly:

http://www.regexr.com/

Troubleshooting startup performance issues for Visual Studio.

This is a very good blog post about troubleshooting startup performance issues for Visual Studio:

http://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/activity-log-profiler-find-out-which-extension-is-slowing-down-your-visual-studio/

In summary, start VS with the /log flag:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /log

(11.0 is for VS 2012, will need to be different for other versions of course).

Also download this xsl file:

https://github.com/lcorneliussen/ActivityLogProfiler/raw/master/ActivityLogProfiler.xsl 

and place it into folder:

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\xx.x (version number) 

Then delete the original xsl file ActivityLog.xsl, and make a copy of the downloaded xsl file, then rename that copy as the original (ActivityLog.xsl). We want to keep a copy of the downloaded one, because each VS startup overwrites the .xsl....

Then open the ActivityLog.xml file with internet explorer and examine the startup information.

code snippets online

http://codesnippet.research.microsoft.com/

duplicate code detection

This seems like a stable project in working condition, it is worth a test. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmd/

Another one that produces fancy graphs, but probably requires more reading of the documentation in order to actually understand what the output means http://www.ccfinder.net/ccfinderxos.html

Also interesting tool to try is the successor to Microsoft Labs PEX, Microsoft CodeDigger

Microsoft CHESS tool for concurrency testing

Scotts list of utilities - awesome

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx