Category: Tools

Common NuGet Package Manager Console Commands You Should Know

Within Visual Studio there is a console window that many know little about. I myself have finally started researching ways to improve my productivity via this console window, the Package Manager Console. In doing my research and using some of these commands on a daily or weekly basis, I figured I’d jot these down for my own notes, and anybody...

Exception was thrown by the target of an invocation – Visual Studio 2010 | 2012

After installing some recent updates to some visual studio extensions and features, I started getting the following error when I was trying to start up Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012. “exception was thrown by the target of an invocation” After Googling around for a little bit, I found a Stack Overflow article which described the issue. Apparently there...

SQL-IN : A Tool to Quickly Build The In Condition

So after years of copying data to Notepad++, then formatting to use in an IN condition, I decided to create an application to perform that function for me, at a fraction of the time. The tool is called SQL-In and can be used to parse data with common or a custom delimiter, then format to use with an IN condition. The...

AutoHotkey – My Top Scripts

AutoHotkey, my new favorite hotkey/snippet tool. It can do things from opening your frequently used folders or applications with a few button presses, to replacing lines and words with snippets, or even interacting with your mouse. If you haven’t started using AutoHotkey yet to increase your efficiency, start. You will notice immediately a decrease in time spent doing menial tasks, giving...

Multiple Windows of Notepad++

I use Notepad++ all the time for both home and work, whether I’m debugging or formatting HTML, PHP, C#, etc… I had an issue recently however where it would have been nice to have multiple instances on different monitors. So I searched their site for anything to create new windows and found exactly what I needed, their command line options...

Turning on Agent Forwarding in PuTTY

So, you are in PuTTY and need to enable Agent Fowarding. This wasn’t super easy to find so I thought I’d post how I got there. View the image below as a guide as well. Go : Connection -> SSH -> Auth -> Then in the Authentication Parameters click the Allow agent forwarding. Now you can use the very easy process of...

Text Expansion And How It Can Help You

I had found a nice little utility today from a lifehacker explaining about text expansion. Basically it’s a global text completion software which will be able auto complete text you are writing as in Word, but works in a text software. Not as good as Visual Studio’s Intellisense, however this can be used in any software, allowing auto completion for notepad++, or...

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