Re: Online source code management tools - GIT / Visual Studio / Bit Bucket / Other ???

2021-06-09 Thread Stephen Price
Hello Mr Groggy.  I've been using github for everything. I don't use the in built VS tools except for comparing history. I used to use beyond compare but the VS context tends to make the diff more useful than a pure text diff. I use the command line for everything. A team leader suggested I

RE: Online source code management tools - GIT / Visual Studio / Bit Bucket / Other ???

2021-06-09 Thread Dr Greg Low
I use VS daily, connected to Azure Repos as part of Azure DevOps. Works great. And for up to 5 users, you get all of Azure DevOps free. You could use GitHub of course, but for most projects that I’m doing in VS, that’s just not needed, and AzDO is a better tool right now anyway. (IMHO)

Re: Problem with VisualStudio.com repository from VS

2021-06-09 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Anything where I need to be clever (use the UI), is the desktop app that > connects with the API or database directly. > This means that my users have two UI's to deal with (what a pain). > I also try to find a desktop solution where possible first. I would only fall back to server-side web

Re: Online source code management tools - GIT / Visual Studio / Bit Bucket / Other ???

2021-06-09 Thread David Gardiner
To be honest I don't really use the Git integration in Visual Studio. I tend to use a combination of the git command line (with tab completion via posh-git), TortoiseGit for some things (like reviewing the commit log history and comparing branches), and more recently the GitLens extension for

Online source code management tools - GIT / Visual Studio / Bit Bucket / Other ???

2021-06-09 Thread Greg Harris
Hello Again Community, I am disappointed with my https://MyAccountName.visualstudio.com/_git/MySolutionName repository on VisualStudio.com. It is feeling clunky and just not working for me from within Visual Studio. What tools are

Re: Problem with VisualStudio.com repository from VS

2021-06-09 Thread Greg Harris
Hi Greg, I feel that Microsoft had such a good solution with Silverlight and we are just starting to get back to where we were 14 years ago now. My typical solution these days is to offer a mass market solution as a simple ASP.net web app, but that is just simple tables CRUD stuff. Anything where