Visual Studio Code Tips and Tricks

“Tips and Tricks” lets you jump right in and learn how to be productive with Visual Studio Code. You’ll become familiar with its powerful editing, code intelligence, and source code control features and learn useful keyboard shortcuts. This topic goes pretty fast and provides a broad overview, so be sure to look at the other in-depth topics in Getting Started and the User Guide to learn more.
code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/tips-and-tricks

Resizing images in EPiServer – Dejan Caric

Every EPiServer developer knows that editors love to work with high-resolution images. If those images are not optimized for different devices, they may increase the page loading time and ruin the browsing experience. There is nothing worse than serving 5000x5000px images on a device whose viewport is only 400x700px, or sending big images (15mb+) over a 3G network. The days of fixed-width website design is behind us. HTML5 has support for responsive images using picture element.

www.dcaric.com/blog/resizing-images-in-episerver

Velocity.js animation engine

velocityjs.org/
Velocity.js Overview
Velocity is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery’s $.animate(). It works with and without jQuery. It’s incredibly fast, and it features color animation, transforms, loops, easings, SVG support, and scrolling. It is the best of jQuery and CSS transitions combined. Download
Download Velocity, include it on your page, and replace all instances of jQuery’s $.animate() with $.velocity(). You will immediately see a performance boost across all browsers and devices — especially on mobile. Compatibility
Velocity works everywhere — back to IE8 and Android 2.3. Under the hood, it mimics jQuery’s $.queue(), and thus interoperates seamlessly with jQuery’s $.animate(), $.fade(), and $.delay(). Since Velocity’s syntax is identical to $.animate(), your code doesn’t need to change. Secret Sauce
JavaScript and jQuery are falsely conflated. JavaScript animation, which Velocity uses, is fast; it’s jQuery that’s slow. Although Velocity works alongside jQuery, it uses its own animation stack that delivers its performance through two underlying principles: 1) synchronize the DOM → tween stack to minimize layout thrashing, and 2) cache values to minimize DOM querying.

Bitbucket Set up an SSH key on Sourcetree for Windows – Atlassian Documentation

Goto heading “Set up SSH with Sourcetree on Windows”‘
Source: Set up an SSH key – Atlassian Documentation


Also see this fix for getting PuTTY Pageant working with Visual Studio 2017 built-in GIT:
I finally managed to make it work, using PuTTY’s Pageant authentication agent instead of ssh-agent, and following the steps mentioned here (it’s for Visual Studio Code, but works for Visual Studio 2017 and I guess it should work for any application that uses the “official” Git for Windows).

Since I already had Pageant installed and a .ppk private key created, I only had to make Git use Pageant, by creating the GIT_SSH Windows environment variable and setting it to the path of the “plink.exe” file (inside the PuTTY installation, for example C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe). With that done, I just need to open Pageant and add the private key (and leave it open while working with the repository), and Visual Studio will be able to connect and issue commands just fine.
From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42773636/connect-to-git-repository-with-ssh-using-visual-studio-2017#