The Top 50 Tips for Better Angular Development

This article dives into essential tips and best practices that will help you enhance your Angular development skills. Whether you're a seasoned Angular developer or a beginner, these insights will help optimize your applications, improve code quality, and leverage Angular’s features effectively.

Google has helped with the open source project to make Clang Windows compatible. Not only is it Windows compatible, but it is also binary compatible with output from the Microsoft compiler. This means you can use the linker to join up code from each compiler into a single program. 

%USERPROFILE%/.omnisharp

{
  "RoslynExtensionsOptions": {
    "LocationPaths": [
      "C:\\lib\\roslynator"
    ]
  }
}

Write-Host "Download, unzip and enable Roslynator for Visual Studio Code"

$name = "josefpihrt.Roslynator2017"
$url = "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=$name"
$currentDir = $PSScriptRoot
$file = "$currentDir\Roslynator.zip"

$pattern = "<script class=`"vss-extension`" defer=`"defer`" type=`"application\/json`">(.*?)<\/script>"
$regex = [regex]"(?m)$pattern"
Write-Host "Grab the home page of the $name."
$dom = (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString($url); 
if($dom -and $dom -match $pattern) 
{
    $matches = $regex.Match($dom)
    $jsonText = $matches[0].Groups[1]

    $json = ConvertFrom-Json $jsonText

    $version = $Json.versions[0].version # Parse the json in the page for the latest version number
    $parts = $name.Split(".")
    $publisher = $parts[0]
    $package = $parts[1]

    # Assemble the url for the vsix package
    $packageUrl = "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/$publisher/vsextensions/$package/$version/vspackage"
    Write-Host "Download the vsix package: $packageUrl"
    (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($packageUrl, $file)

    Write-Host "Using $currentDir as the current dir."
    Write-Host "Unzip $file."
    $shellApp = new-object -com shell.application 
    $zipFile = $shellApp.namespace($file) 
    $destination = $shellApp.namespace($currentDir) 
    $destination.Copyhere($zipFile.items(), 0x14)# overwrite and be silent

    Write-Host "Delete VS specific files. Otherwise they will interfere with the MEF services inside OmniSharp."
    Remove-Item "$currentDir\Roslynator.VisualStudio.Core.dll","$currentDir\Roslynator.VisualStudio.dll", "$currentDir\Roslynator.VisualStudio.pkgdef"

    $omnisharpJsonFilePath = "$env:USERPROFILE\.omnisharp\omnisharp.json";
    Write-Host "Create $omnisharpJsonFilePath file."
    $omnisharpJson = @" 
{{
  "RoslynExtensionsOptions": {{
    "LocationPaths": [
      "{0}"
    ]
  }}
}}
"@ -f $currentDir -Replace "\\","\\"
    $omnisharpJson | Out-File "$omnisharpJsonFilePath" -Confirm

    Write-Host "Done!"
}
else
{
    Write-Host "Failed to find the packageUrl!"
}

PS D:\Prog\1396\RoslynatorVSCode> .\update.ps1
Download, unzip and enable Roslynator for Visual Studio Code
Grab the home page of the josefpihrt.Roslynator2017.
Download the vsix package: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/josefpihrt/vsextensions/Roslynator2017/1.7.0/vspackage
Using D:\Prog\1396\RoslynatorVSCode as the current dir.
Unzip D:\Prog\1396\RoslynatorVSCode\Roslynator.zip.
Delete VS specific files. Otherwise they will interfere with the MEF services inside OmniSharp.
Create C:\Users\Vahid\.omnisharp\omnisharp.json file.

Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing the operation "Output to File" on target "C:\Users\Vahid\.omnisharp\omnisharp.json".
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):
Done!

After 15 years of running on essentially the same codebase, Microsoft has finally decided to retire MSDN and TechNet. The replacement will be an open source project known as docs.microsoft.com. 

/// <summary>
/// Get an author by his/her id
/// </summary>
/// <param name="authorId">The id of the author you want to get</param>
/// <returns>An ActionResult of type Author</returns>
[HttpGet("{authorId}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<Author>> GetAuthor(Guid authorId)

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
    <AspNetCoreHostingModel>InProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>
    <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
  </PropertyGroup>

namespace OpenAPISwaggerDoc.Web
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddSwaggerGen(setupAction =>
            {
                setupAction.SwaggerDoc(
                    // ... 
                   );

                var xmlCommentsFile = $"{Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name}.xml";
                var xmlCommentsFullPath = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, xmlCommentsFile);
                setupAction.IncludeXmlComments(xmlCommentsFullPath);
            });
        }

using System;

namespace OpenAPISwaggerDoc.Models
{
    /// <summary>
    /// An author with Id, FirstName and LastName fields
    /// </summary>
    public class Author
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The id of the author
        /// </summary>
        public Guid Id { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The first name of the author
        /// </summary>
        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The last name of the author
        /// </summary>
        public string LastName { get; set; }
    }
}

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
    <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

namespace OpenAPISwaggerDoc.Web
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddSwaggerGen(setupAction =>
            {
                setupAction.SwaggerDoc(
  // ...
                   );
                var xmlFiles = Directory.GetFiles(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "*.xml", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).ToList();
                xmlFiles.ForEach(xmlFile => setupAction.IncludeXmlComments(xmlFile));
            });
        }

[HttpPut("{authorId}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<Author>> UpdateAuthor(Guid authorId, AuthorForUpdate authorForUpdate)

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace OpenAPISwaggerDoc.Models
{
    /// <summary>
    /// An author for update with FirstName and LastName fields
    /// </summary>
    public class AuthorForUpdate
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The first name of the author
        /// </summary>
        [Required]
        [MaxLength(150)]
        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The last name of the author
        /// </summary>
        [Required]
        [MaxLength(150)]
        public string LastName { get; set; }
    }
}

[HttpPut("{authorId}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<Author>> UpdateAuthor(Guid authorId, AuthorForUpdate authorForUpdate)

[HttpPatch("{authorId}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<Author>> UpdateAuthor(
            Guid authorId,
            JsonPatchDocument<AuthorForUpdate> patchDocument)

/// <summary>
/// Partially update an author
/// </summary>
/// <param name="authorId">The id of the author you want to get</param>
/// <param name="patchDocument">The set of operations to apply to the author</param>
/// <returns>An ActionResult of type Author</returns>
/// <remarks>
/// Sample request (this request updates the author's first name) \
/// PATCH /authors/id \
/// [ \
///     { \
///       "op": "replace", \
///       "path": "/firstname", \
///       "value": "new first name" \
///       } \
/// ] \
/// </remarks>
[HttpPatch("{authorId}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<Author>> UpdateAuthor(
    Guid authorId,
    JsonPatchDocument<AuthorForUpdate> patchDocument)

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
    <AspNetCoreHostingModel>InProcess</AspNetCoreHostingModel>

    <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
    <TreatWarningsAsErrors>false</TreatWarningsAsErrors>
    <WarningsAsErrors>NU1605;</WarningsAsErrors>
    <NoWarn>1701;1702;1591</NoWarn>
  </PropertyGroup>

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Visual Studio for Mac has parted ways with the Mono runtime in the just-published Preview 5, now running on .NET 6.  

Added "debug all tests" and "run all tests" to the CodeLens that appears above test classes to allow running or debugging all tests in a class. 

This post will be comparing the performance of RyuJIT in .NET Framework 4.6.2 to its performance in .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.7.1.