What tools and services do you now consider part of your daily workflow?
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Maximilien wrote:
Visual SourceSafe
Is that still a thing? :rolleyes:
In our defense we have a set of best practices which are aggressively enforced, automated backups, and smart people using it. We are a small group that started with over a dozen people years ago and are now down to five after some financial misadventures by the company. Our workload is heavy enough and SourceSafe is such an ingrained part of our toolchain that we've never been able to switch.
Software Zen:
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These are all tools I use daily: 1. Coffee (makes me decide to live another day) 2. Coffee (ensures I let the rest of you live another day) 3. Remote Desktop (working from home) 4. Visual Studio 5. Trace Viewer (an in-house debugging tool) 6. Visual SourceSafe (don't; just don't) 7. Coffee (renews #1 and #2) 8. Chrome, Google, www.codeproject.com :cool: and www.stackoverflow.com :~ 9. Notepad 10. Paint.net 11. Builder (in-house automated build tool) These are as needed: 12. WinMerge 13. SysInternals suite
Software Zen:
delete this;Up until about 2 years ago we were using VSS as well, then (what was meant to be a temporary step) we moved to SourceGear. This is very similar to VSS so really no learning curve. They have VSS to Source migration tool (probably a day's downtime with about a weeks prep). It was very easy/relatively painless process. The repository resides in SQL, Visual Studio integration, GUI tool or Browser. It does have its funnies, but nothing serious (that I've come across). It does have a migration to GIT as well (for later). BTW, not associated with SourceGear, just a user.
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
mostly: RDP VSCode (go, typescript, React, Redux) gitBash yarn git protobuf chrome gerrit jenkins Teams Outlook Jira Confluence
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Up until about 2 years ago we were using VSS as well, then (what was meant to be a temporary step) we moved to SourceGear. This is very similar to VSS so really no learning curve. They have VSS to Source migration tool (probably a day's downtime with about a weeks prep). It was very easy/relatively painless process. The repository resides in SQL, Visual Studio integration, GUI tool or Browser. It does have its funnies, but nothing serious (that I've come across). It does have a migration to GIT as well (for later). BTW, not associated with SourceGear, just a user.
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Back in 2015 we had a lull in the workflow, so I took a serious look at modernizing our toolchain. I considered SourceGear, but opted for git. Unfortunately our situation went to hell in a handbasket as we were talking about the change, so that all fell by the wayside.
Software Zen:
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
Visual Studio 2019 Notepad Excel MS Snipping Tool Character map Outlook Edge Firefox Visio MS Paint Paint.Net MS Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture Foxit Reader Z-zip Calculator Age of Empires II reboot
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
A hammer, only to cite to most useful in meeting.
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
I do desktop app development - my daily workflow revolves around: * Visual Studio Code - editor & I use the integrated terminal to get stuff done. I prefer to Visual Studio - it's a personal preference thing. * WSL with an Ubuntu 18.04 distro - I use Linux for a) bash (don't like CMD & Powershell so much), b) building and testing and debugging on Linux * Visual Studio C++ tools - I needs MSVC * g++ - primary Linux build toolchain * clang - provides C/C++ formatting (clang-format) and static analysis (clang-tidy & clang static analyser) * CMake - build generator * Ninja - build tool * gdb - Linux debug through VSCode * git, GitKraken - command-line git mostly, but I like GitKraken for preparing commits when I've been bad & done multiple commits worth of work without actually committing... * fd, rg and various other Linux tools - `fd` is a `find` replacement, `rg` is a `grep` replacement. They work so much faster than `find` and `grep` and ignore files in your `.gitignore` - perfect for codebase searches. * 1Password - my favourite password manager * [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/), LaTeX - I prepare my documentation in Markdown & publish to HTML & PDF with [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) & LaTeX. It all uses pre-prepared workflows & is fully automated - Markdown in, nice looking HTML and PDF out!
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
looking thru most of the answers. I would add. Besides Powershell, VSCode, VS2019, SSMS. MS OneNote - OneNote is the bomb www.systeminternals.com - Sys Int is just needed Agent Ransack - Search utility Color pic http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ GIMP or Paint.net or photochop - Again take your pic. All do the job. I use Gimp Gsplit for sending large files to someone notepad++
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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These are all tools I use daily: 1. Coffee (makes me decide to live another day) 2. Coffee (ensures I let the rest of you live another day) 3. Remote Desktop (working from home) 4. Visual Studio 5. Trace Viewer (an in-house debugging tool) 6. Visual SourceSafe (don't; just don't) 7. Coffee (renews #1 and #2) 8. Chrome, Google, www.codeproject.com :cool: and www.stackoverflow.com :~ 9. Notepad 10. Paint.net 11. Builder (in-house automated build tool) These are as needed: 12. WinMerge 13. SysInternals suite
Software Zen:
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We have VSS and TFS. Management/Corp IT is making us move to 100% TFS, but most of us like VSS better. Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
I looked at TFS. Even for a small group like ours, it would have required someone maintaining it full time. While git is not terribly intuitive, at least the maintenance is simple.
Software Zen:
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I looked at TFS. Even for a small group like ours, it would have required someone maintaining it full time. While git is not terribly intuitive, at least the maintenance is simple.
Software Zen:
delete this;What maintenance? We've been using TFS for over 8 years (now also use VSTS and Git).The TFS system "just works". Developers check stuff in and out, merge to test and release branches, run the build tools and don't really think about it. I suppose there's a bit of "maintenance" adding new users or if someone moves to a new project, and, of course, the Systems team backs up the server and its database, but we've found it's generally set it and forget it.
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Matthew uses it, I think
cheers Chris Maunder
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I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?
cheers Chris Maunder
* Visual Studio 2019 + Re# 2020 * VSCode plus about 5000 extensions * Azure Data Studio plus lots of extensions * Windows 10 20H1 (.net Framework 4.8) * Windows Terminal * WinGet/Chocolatey/Scoop * WSL2 + Pengwin * Docker Desktop (Linux in WSL2) * SQL Server * Azure DevOps (Git, Pipelines) * Azure WebApps * Azure SQL
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These are all tools I use daily: 1. Coffee (makes me decide to live another day) 2. Coffee (ensures I let the rest of you live another day) 3. Remote Desktop (working from home) 4. Visual Studio 5. Trace Viewer (an in-house debugging tool) 6. Visual SourceSafe (don't; just don't) 7. Coffee (renews #1 and #2) 8. Chrome, Google, www.codeproject.com :cool: and www.stackoverflow.com :~ 9. Notepad 10. Paint.net 11. Builder (in-house automated build tool) These are as needed: 12. WinMerge 13. SysInternals suite
Software Zen:
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