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How to Install & run Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu Server

David — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 06:40:53 +0000

Visual Studio Code is a highly versatile and user-friendly cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that seamlessly operates on a wide range of operating systems including Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This remarkable software is not only incredibly easy to install and run on the desktop variants of these operating systems, but it also offers a seamless and hassle-free experience. However, when it comes to working on a server operating system, the process of installing and configuring Visual Studio Code may pose some challenges and require a bit more effort and technical expertise.

There are basically two approaches to do so.

To install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu Server
To install VS Code Server on Ubuntu server, and then remote into Ubuntu server to get the graphical UI from another PC or desktop/laptops right within a Web browser

In this article, I am focusing on the 2nd approach, since this is much more simpler, popular, less error-prone and much quicker to get it working for us.

To install, run the below code in your Ubuntu server terminal:

sudo apt update
curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh

To start VSCode server, run the below code in your Ubuntu server terminal:

code-server

After running the code-server app above, you will see below prompts, by clicking the link and opening it in your browser, you will see that you almost get a brand new VSCode working in your browser!

The default password can be shown by running below commands in terminal:

nano ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml

You can also set the IP address and the port therein as well.

Input the password and click Submit button to proceed:

You can open a file
You can open a folder
Change the editor theme
You can install the plugins, get themes, code coloring etc.

You got almost al functionalities just like you installed VSCode on the server!

Just in case you would install VSCode on the server, follow the below procedures:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y curl gpg software-properties-common apt-transport-https
curl -sSL <https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc> | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/microsoft-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/microsoft-archive-keyring.gpg] <https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode> stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y code

Once the installation is complete, you can run Visual Studio Code by typing code in the terminal.

Install Mac Apps without admin rights

David — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 05:06:35 +0000

For some reasons, you are allowed to use a Mac computer, be it a MacBook, Mac Mini, Mac Studio..., however, you are not given the admin rights, but you want to install some apps which are your handy, productivity tools.

Sound familiar and frequent encountered scenarios?

If you are interested to know how to Install software without Admin rights on Windows, refer to ⚙️Install anything without Admin rights.

Here is how to get it done on a Mac computer:

As usual, download the App installer to your local Mac computer, where you logged in as a user without admin rights. In this blog, I am using Notion App as an example, and the downloaded file is Notion-2.1.11.dmg
Before you double click the installer downloaded, create a folder in Finder, or using below command:



mkdir /Users/[YourUserName]/Applications //or
mkdir /Users/[YourUserName]/Tools

where YourUserName is your login user name, as the name suggested.

In Mac Finder App, Press the shortcut key ⌘ + ⇧ + G to navigate to the folder created above.
Double click the installer, just like what you did as an admin user:

Instead of drag the app to the system's Applications folder, drage the app to the folder which you just created.

Now you App is installed, and double click the App Icon (in my case, it is the notion desktop app), that is it!

Once the app is started, you can pin it to the dock:

You can pin your own Applications or Tools folder by dragging it to the Favorites folder

If you are interested to know how to Install software without Admin rights on Windows, refer to ⚙️Install anything without Admin rights.

Some Apps that are useful to boost your produdctivities:

How to transfer the Octopus Card from an Old iPhone to a new iPhone

David — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:07:51 +0000

From your *OLD * iPhone, open the Wallet App

Click the Octopus card and make it selected,
Click the ... button
Click the Card Details button

Scroll down to the bottom, and click Remove Card button

On your NEW iPhone, open the Wallet App
Click the "+" button

Click the button Previous cards

Follow the step-by-step instructions, done!

Shortcut keys to shut down Mac (MacBook Pro, Mini ...)

David — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:18:12 +0000

I am a keyboard guy and hate mouse. Moving your cursor to the far top-left corner of a 49-inch screen, and select & click the menu item, and then moving cursor back to the screen center, click OK to confirm, is too painful to me.

If you have the same experience, you are not alone!

If you google it, you will find that you can shut down Mac Using Keyboard Shortcut(key combination) as shown below:

Command + Option + Control + ⏏ (Eject / Power)

However, if you like me, either you are using Mac Mini, or you don't have a keyboard with the "Eject" key, the above trick may not work for you.

In addition, I dislike doing a task by pressing 4 keys simutaneously. 3 keys, by far are the most I can afford.

What is even worse, I cannot remember the key combations, is it

Command + Option + Control + ⏏ or
Command + Shift + Control + ⏏ ?

I often confuse myself.

Solution

What I expect is something like:

Shift + Command + Q  ➟ Shut down OSX
Shift + Command + L  ➟ Lock screen
Shift + Command + R  ➟ Restart OSX
Shift + Command + S  ➟ Sleep

Simple, intuitive and easy to remember!

Here is how to do so:

Click system menu, and then "System Preferences ..."

Select the App Shortcuts on the left, and click the "+" button on the right side panel

In the pop up dialog, type below words EXACTLY in the "Menu Title:" box:

Shut Down...

Associate the Shift + Command + Q shortcut

That is it.

Shortcut to shut down Mac

David — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:07:13 +0000

If you google it, you will find that you can shut down Mac Using Keyboard Shortcut(key combination) as shown below:

Command + Option + Control + Eject / Power

However, if you like me, either you are using Mac Mini, or you don't have a keyboard with the "Eject" key, the above trick may not work for you.

In addition, I dislike doing a task by pressing 4 keys simutaneously. 3 keys, by far are the most I can afford.

What is even worse, I cannot remember the key combations, is it Command + Option + Control + Eject / Power or Command + Shift + Control + Eject / Power? I often confuse myself.

What I expect is something like:

Shift + Command + Q

Simple, intuitive and easy to remember!

⚙️Install anything without Admin rights

David — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 02:24:47 +0000

In Enterprise working environment, you are most probably not granted administrator previleges, however to boost your productivty, you might need install some software toolkits that you are most familiar with. This blog covers the most widely used toolkits and how to install them without admin rights.

Install nodejs without admin
Install yarn without admin
Install Choco without admin
Install Powershell portable
Install Dotnet SDK or runtime without admin
Install Everything Search without admin

Install nodejs without admin

Go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Download Windows Binary (.zip)

Unzip and extract to a folder

C:\your\nodejs_path\here\
node -v
npm -v

Add the extracted path to Windows Path, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

    set PATH=%PATH%;C:\your\nodejs_path\here\

Install yarn without admin

Run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

    npm config set strict-ssl false  #important
    npm install yarn -g

Install Choco without admin

Follow this link to setup Choco without admin rights.

If you even do not have the rights to run Powershell, follow below procedures:

Get a PC where you have the admin previlege
Install Choco
Find the installation folder where Choco is installed, usually this is C:\ProgramData\chocolatey
Zip all files in this folder, and share the zip files with whatever approaches: email, dropbox, AWS S3, FTP, USB sticks etc.
Unzip the file and add the path to the environement variable path

Install Powershell, Cmder portable

Once choco is install, we can install many software toolkits which are portable and could be installed without admin, refer to this site to get the list of portable software.

For instance, to install powershell (Portable), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

  choco install powershell.portable

  # Below will install 7zip, Cmder and git in one go!
  choco install battecode.cmder.dev

Install Dotnet SDK or runtime without admin

Go to Microsoft Dotnet download link, e.g. Dotnet 5 Dowload Page
Download the binary file(not msi installer)
Unzip the file and update the folder path in the Windows Environement

    set DOTNET_ROOT=%USERPROFILE%\dotnet
    set PATH=%USERPROFILE%\dotnet;%PATH%
    set DOTNET_MULTILEVEL_LOOKUP=0

An alternative approach:

Download the stable version of the scripts

Bash (Linux/macOS): https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh
PowerShell (Windows): https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.ps1
Run the below script to install the .NET SDK and the shared runtime.

    .\dotnet-install.ps1

Install Everything Search without admin

Download the zip file here, note to download the portable version
Unzip and run 'Everything.exe'
Since we don't have the admin rights, we cannot run this as service, so the alternative approach is to index folders. This way, add the root of all your drive to be searched, and you will get the same effects as indexing all local dirves!

Install Anything Else without admin

Go to a PC where you have admin
Find the path where executable file is located
Zip the file and copy the zip file to the computer where no admin rights are grante
Unzip the files to the target computer
It should run in most cases. Something I tried out:
- Fast Stone Capture
- Paint.net
- VLC
- Sidekick browser
- Notion
- Slack
- Evernote
- GitKraken
- Notepad ++
- Sublime
- vscode

🔥🔥🔥 Develop Android Apps using React-native: Setup on Mac M1 and troubleshooting

David — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:48:20 +0000

Install Java and platform tools

Note that at the time of this writing, Java 16 is NOT supported by React Native! Java 8 is safe to install.

## Install Java and android platform tools
brew tap adoptopenjdk/openjdk
brew install --cask adoptopenjdk8
brew install android-platform-tools

Install Android SDK

brew tap homebrew/cask
brew install --cask android-sdk

Install Android Studio

Go to Google's Android Studio download page and install.

Set environment variables

This is super important, and many errors in react-native CLI failed, because of these incorrect settings. Run below code in the terminal:

echo export "ANDROID_HOME=${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo export "ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=${HOME}/Library/Android/sdk" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo export "ANDROID_AVD_HOME=${HOME}/.Android/avd" >> ~/.bash_profile

# Optional, for zsh shell only
echo "[[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc" >> ~/.bash_profile

To test if this is successful, try below:

source ~/.bash_profile
echo $ANDROID_HOME

Install node.js/npm, yarn and Watchman

brew install node
brew install yarn
brew install watchman

Double check if every setting is good

npx react-native doctor

You will see some errors like below:

You might wish to fix some of the errors, e.g. JDK with below commands:

brew install --cask adoptopenjdk11

Now the error will be fixed:

Note: You may ignore the Android SDK errors!

Run command to create a new project

npx react-native init demo

Install M1 Android Emulator

https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview or
https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases/tag/0.2

Download the DMG file and install the emulator as a Mac OSX app. Start the emulator before you run:

npx react-native run-android

Hooray! Now you should be able to run react native android app in Apple M1 desktops/laptops!

🌟Install Jenkins in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)

David — Mon, 24 May 2021 10:59:59 +0000

Jenkins

Jenkins is one of the most popular tools DevOps tools, originally designed with one purpose in mind: be a great build automation server. It’s free and open-source, built for developers, and has lots and lots of plugins that you can configure to build anything.

Although Jenkins can be deployed to lots of public clouds like AWS, GCP or Azure, running a local Jenkins server still has its own advantages and values. Speeds and easy for experimentation are just two of the most important ones.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment -- including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications -- directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dual-boot setup.

WSL 2 is a new version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux architecture that powers the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run ELF64 Linux binaries on Windows. Its primary goals are to increase file system performance, as well as adding full system call compatibility.

Install WSL2 on Windows

For the full instructions to install WSL2 on windows, refer to this link or this one

Mix together: Install Jenkins in Windows Subsystem for Linux

This blog will focus on putting all the nice stuffs together: Windows + Ubuntu + Jenkins.

Open a terminal in Windows

Open a new Ubuntu terminal (I am using Windows Terminal, but you can use whatever terminal tools like blow excellent candidates)

Update Ubuntu in WSL2

Below here are the quick scripts for updating Ubuntu in WSL2:



sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get -y install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
apt-get update

Install Java and Jenkins in WSL2



sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk           # choose this or next line
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless # or Install Java 11 JDK/JRE
sudo apt install Jenkins

You will get an error like below:

To solve this, run the below script:



wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io.key | sudo apt-key add
sudo bash -c 'echo deb https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install jenkins

With this, ~ 68MB Jenkins package will be downloaded, it will take a while depending on the internet speeds.

Update Firewall to enable Jenkins service



sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw allow 8080 # whatever port number you like

Check the status of your port:



sudo ufw status

Run Jenkins server



sudo service jenkins start

Install Jenkins from a browser

Navigate to your host browser, and type:



http://localhost:8080/

You will see the screen as below:

where you will be prompted to provide an initial password to unlock Jenkins.

Follow up the screen instructions and in the terminal, type below:



sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Copy the password you retrieved to clipboard
Return to the host browser window, and paste the password therein
Click "Continue" button!

Follow the screen instructions to create an account. Hooray!

🔝Running docker containers in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)🔥🔥🔥

David — Tue, 04 May 2021 03:18:42 +0000

Install WSL2 on Windows

For the full instructions to install WSL2 on windows, refer to this link

Long story short, try the below code snippet in Windows Powershell:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
wsl --set-default-version 2

Download desired Linux system

Open the Microsoft Store and select your favorite Linux distribution. For instance:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
openSUSE Leap 15.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
Kali Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
Fedora Remix for WSL
Pengwin Enterprise
Alpine WSL

Set your distribution version to WSL 1 or WSL 2

wsl --list --verbose
wsl --set-version <distribution name> 2

Make sure to replace with the actual name of your distribution, e.g. "Ubuntu-20.04"

Install docker on WSL2

The instructions can be found here, but here are the quick scripts for installing Docker on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install docker-ce docker-ce.cli containerd.io

Run docker daemon in WSL2

sudo service docker start # (a) Run docker service, recommended
sudo dockerd              # or (b) this one also works

Build and run a container app

If you are using approach (b) to start docker service, remember to open a new Ubuntu terminal (I am using Windows Terminal, but you can use whatever terminal tools, e.g. Cmder or Fluent Terminal etc.)

docker run hello-world

This will run the 'hello-world' app in your container!

Congrats! You have run the simplest Linux container App in WSL2!

Run your customized container app using Dockerfile

Create a new file called 'dockerfile', where Apache2 web server is installed, and a simple html file is hosted:

FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y apache2
RUN echo "Welcome to my web site" > /var/www/html/index.html
EXPOSE 80

Build and run the docker instance

docker build -t "webserver" .
docker images
docker run -d -p 80:80 webserver /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND

If you see some output like this, it is a success

Try your Apache web server on your windows host:

Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:80

Or run in terminal:

curl localhost

Congrats! You have run your customized Linux container App in WSL2!

🔝Top 10 C# Projects on GitHub (Q1 2021) and the trend🔥🔥🔥

David — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:13:03 +0000

C# remains a popular programming language in 2021. As of April 2021, C# ranks №5 in Tiobe Index, following C, Java, Python and C++.

Below are the top 10 C# Projects on GitHub as of April 2021.

Ranking (2021/04)	Ranking (2020/12)	Project Name	Stars	Forks
1	a	PowerToys	52964	2876
2	1	Shadowsocks-windows	52032	16007
3	2	PowerShell	25683	4102
4	3	CodeHub	23230	631
5	4	Aspnetcore	21825	6221
6	5	Wox	19959	2157
7	7	V2rayN	19498	4271
8	6	DnSpy	17865	3116
9	8	EShopOnContainers	17260	7317
10	9	WaveFunctionCollapse	16059	820

a: Not sure

1. PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows 10 experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and guides, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to docs.microsoft.com!

microsoft / PowerToys

Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

Microsoft PowerToys

How to use PowerToys | Downloads & Release notes | Contributing to PowerToys | What's Happening | Roadmap

About

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and how to use the utilities, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to learn.microsoft.com!

Current utilities:
Advanced Paste	Always on Top	PowerToys Awake
Command Not Found	Color Picker	Crop And Lock
Environment Variables	FancyZones	File Explorer Add-ons
File Locksmith	Hosts File Editor	Image Resizer
Keyboard Manager	Mouse utilities	Mouse Without Borders
New+	Peek	Paste as Plain Text
PowerRename	PowerToys Run	Quick Accent
Registry Preview	Screen Ruler	Shortcut Guide
Text Extractor	Video Conference Mute	Workspaces

Installing and running Microsoft PowerToys

Requirements

Windows 11 or Windows 10 version 2004 (code name 20H1 / build number 19041)…

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2. Shadowsocks-windows

Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used to circumvent Internet censorship. Why is it so popular, because it is used by a large population!

shadowsocks / shadowsocks-windows

A C# port of shadowsocks

Shadowsocks for Windows

Features

Connect to Shadowsocks servers.
Automatically set system proxy.
SIP002 URL scheme.
SIP003 plugins.
SIP008 online configuration delivery.

Downloads

Download from releases.

Usage

🚀

PAC

The PAC rules are generated from the geosite database in v2fly/domain-list-community.
Generation modes: whitelist mode and blacklist mode.
Domain groups: geositeDirectGroups and geositeProxiedGroups
- geositeDirectGroups is initialized with cn and geolocation-!cn@cn.
- geositeProxiedGroups is initialized with geolocation-!cn.
To switch between different modes, modify the geositePreferDirect property in gui-config.json
- When geositePreferDirect is false (default), PAC works in whitelist mode. Exception rules are generated from geositeDirectGroups. Unmatched domains goes through the proxy.
- When geositePreferDirect is true, PAC works in blacklist mode. Blocking rules are generated from geositeProxiedGroups. Exception rules are generated from geositeDirectGroups. Unmatched domains are connected to directly.
Starting from 4.3.0.0, shadowsocks-windows defaults to whitelist mode with Chinese domains excluded from connecting via the proxy.
The new…

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3. PowerShell

A cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language. Unlike most shells, which accept and return text, PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), and accepts and returns .NET objects. This fundamental change brings entirely new tools and methods for automation.

PowerShell / PowerShell

PowerShell for every system!

PowerShell

Welcome to the PowerShell GitHub Community PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language, and a framework for processing cmdlets.

Windows PowerShell vs. PowerShell 7+

Although this repository started as a fork of the Windows PowerShell codebase, changes made in this repository are not ported back to Windows PowerShell 5.1. This also means that issues tracked here are only for PowerShell 7.x and higher. Windows PowerShell specific issues should be reported with the Feedback Hub app, by choosing "Apps > PowerShell" in the category.

New to PowerShell?

If you are new to PowerShell and want to learn more, we recommend reviewing the getting started documentation.

Get PowerShell

PowerShell is supported…

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A good tutorial on Powershell 2020 can be found from the below Youtube video.

4. CodeHub

CodeHubApp / CodeHub

CodeHub is an iOS application written using Xamarin

CodeHub is the best way to browse and maintain your GitHub repositories on any iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad device! Keep an eye on your projects with the ability to view everything from pull requests to commenting on individual file diffs in the latest change set. CodeHub brings GitHub to your finger tips in a sleek and efficient design.

Follow the project on twitter: @CodeHubApp
Feature requests can be made on GitHub
Additional information can be found on the project's webpage

Screenshots

Contributing

Contributions are absolutely welcome! The project is built on Xamarin, a free C# framework for iOS applications. You'll need to download this to build the project.

Fork it!
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request :D

Troubleshooting

I Can't Find My Organization

CodeHub can…

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5. Aspnetcore

dotnet / aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is an open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based internet-connected applications, such as web apps, IoT apps, and mobile backends. ASP.NET Core apps run on .NET, a free, cross-platform, and open-source application runtime. It was architected to provide an optimized development framework for apps that are deployed to the cloud or run on-premises. It consists of modular components with minimal overhead, so you retain flexibility while constructing your solutions. You can develop and run your ASP.NET Core apps cross-platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Learn more about ASP.NET Core.

Get started

Follow the Getting Started instructions.

Also check out the .NET Homepage for released versions of .NET, getting started guides, and learning resources.

See the Triage Process document for more information on how we handle incoming issues.

How to engage, contribute, and give feedback

Some of the best ways to contribute are to…

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6. Wox

Wox-launcher / Wox

A cross-platform launcher that simply works

Wox

Wox is a cross-platform launcher that simply works. It's an alternative to Alfred and Launchy

Wox v2 is under active development, if you use windows, please check v1 release

Features

Search for applications, folders, files and more
Plenty of Plugins and AI Themes
Single executable file, no installation required
Develop plugins with Javascript, Python, C#

Install and Run

Manual

Download from releases and run the single executable file

Homebrew

brew tap wox-launcher/wox
brew install wox --no-quarantine

Usage

Launch: Alt/Command+Space
Cancel/Return: Esc

Contribution

First and most importantly, star it!
Send PR
Join discussions

Documentation

Project Activity

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7. DnSpy

dnSpy / dnSpy

.NET debugger and assembly editor

dnSpy - Latest release

dnSpy is a debugger and .NET assembly editor. You can use it to edit and debug assemblies even if you don't have any source code available. Main features:

Debug .NET and Unity assemblies
Edit .NET and Unity assemblies
Light and dark themes

See below for more features

Binaries

https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy/releases

Building

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy.git
cd dnSpy
# or dotnet build
./build.ps1 -NoMsbuild

To debug Unity games, you need this repo too: https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy-Unity-mono (or get the binaries from https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy/releases/unity)

Debugger

Debug .NET Framework, .NET and Unity game assemblies, no source code required
Set breakpoints and step into any assembly
Locals, watch, autos windows
Variables windows support saving variables (eg. decrypted byte arrays) to disk or view them in the hex editor (memory window)
Object IDs
Multiple processes can be debugged at the same time
Break on module load
Tracepoints and conditional breakpoints
Export/import…

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8. V2rayN

2dust / v2rayN

A GUI client for Windows, support Xray core and v2fly core and others

v2rayN

A GUI client for Windows, support Xray core and v2fly core and others

How to use

If you are new to this, please download v2rayN-With-Core.zip from releases
Otherwise please download v2rayN.zip (you will also need to download cores in the bin directory)
Run v2rayN.exe

Requirements

(6.35 and above)Microsoft .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime
(6.33 and below)Microsoft .NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime
Supported cores

Telegram Channel

github_2dust

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9. EShopOnContainers

dotnet-architecture / eShopOnContainers

Cross-platform .NET sample microservices and container based application that runs on Linux Windows and macOS. Powered by .NET 7, Docker Containers and Azure Kubernetes Services. Supports Visual Studio, VS for Mac and CLI based environments with Docker CLI, dotnet CLI, VS Code or any other code editor. Moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop.

eShop has moved!

As of November 2023, the eShop sample application has been updated and moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop. Active development will continue there.

This repo is now a read-only archive. If you'd like to refer to the old code that was in here, you can find it in the "dev" branch.

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10. WaveFunctionCollapse

mxgmn / WaveFunctionCollapse

Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics

WaveFunctionCollapse

This program generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input bitmap.

Local similarity means that

(C1) The output should contain only those NxN patterns of pixels that are present in the input.
(Weak C2) Distribution of NxN patterns in the input should be similar to the distribution of NxN patterns over a sufficiently large number of outputs. In other words, probability to meet a particular pattern in the output should be close to the density of such patterns in the input.

In the examples a typical value of N is 3.

WFC initializes output bitmap in a completely unobserved state, where each pixel value is in superposition of colors of the input bitmap (so if the input was black & white then the unobserved states are shown in different shades of grey). The coefficients in these superpositions are real numbers, not complex numbers, so it doesn't do the…

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11. ShareX (No. 10 in Dec 2020)

ShareX / ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool

For further information please check our website

Documents

Image effects: https://getsharex.com/image-effects
Actions: https://getsharex.com/actions
Dev builds: https://getsharex.com/docs/dev-builds
Keybinds: https://getsharex.com/docs/keybinds
Scrolling screenshot: https://getsharex.com/docs/scrolling-screenshot
Command line arguments: https://getsharex.com/docs/command-line-arguments
Translation: https://getsharex.com/docs/translation
OCR: https://getsharex.com/docs/ocr
Custom uploader: https://getsharex.com/docs/custom-uploader
Amazon S3 guide: https://getsharex.com/docs/amazon-s3
Google Cloud Storage guide: https://getsharex.com/docs/google-cloud-storage
Cloudflare R2 guide: https://getsharex.com/docs/cloudflare-r2
Brand assets: https://getsharex.com/brand-assets

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Using Ionic and React to create Electron desktop App: A step-by-step tutorial and troubleshooting

David — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 03:48:01 +0000

Ionic is an open source UI toolkit for building high quality, cross-platform native, web, mobile and desktop app experiences. Move faster with a single code base, running everywhere with JavaScript and the Web!

With Ionic, comes the flexibility of building cross platform apps without any problem. It's far more easier to build high-end user interfaces with added functionalities and reuse the same code to build apps for different platforms. As the rewriting of code is not required, it saves a lot of time and effort.

This post outlines how to create a desktop app using:

Ionic
React
Electron

Install Ionic CLI



npm install -g @ionic/cli

Create/Start a project



ionic start demo --type=react sidemenu

This creates a project called demo
React, instead of ~~Angular~~ is chosen as the framework for development
Use the template sidemenu as the base, other template also include
- blank | A blank starter project
- sidemenu | A starting project with a side menu with navigation in the content area
- tabs | A starting project with a simple tabbed interface
- conference | A kitchen-sink application that shows off all Ionic has to offer
The project structure will be similar to below snapshot:

Run the project as a web app



ionic serve

Then a web page will be opened by the default browser:

Add Electron build target

Run below commands:



    ionic build                 # This is a must
    ionic cap add electron      # Add Electron sub-project
    ionic cap open electron     # Run the Electron App

    # or run these 3 commands in one go:
    ionic build; ionic cap add electron; ionic cap open electron

Note: If you clone the project from this Github repo, you can find a branch tagged with ELECTRON_SUCKS, pull this commit and run below command



yarn               # Run this to install dependencies
cd electron; yarn  # Run this to install electron dependencies
ionic build; 
ionic cap sync; 
ionic cap open electron

You will find that two folders will be created and now the project structure will be similar to below snapshot:

The Electron desktop app will be built and opened, as shown below:

Other than the warnings/errors shown in the DEV tools, we can now see the desktop application up and running!

Wait a minute, why can't we see the left menu as shown in the web App? If you acutely spot this, congratulations, you are so alert and you are not alone!!!

Troubleshooting Electron Desktop

To trouble shoot the above issues, follow the below procedures:

a. Open the package.json file in the project root folder, and add below code:



"homepage": "./",

as shown below:

b. Open electron\index.js, change the line highlighted to:



mainWindow.loadURL('http://localhost:8100');

c. Rebuild the project



ionic build
ionic cap sync # or  ionic cap copy

d. Open electron\app\index.html, change the line highlighted to:



<base href="./"/>

e. Run the below command:



    ionic cap open electron

Now, you will see the electron app is up and running with desired UI:

Hooray~

Note that Step d maybe reverted after calling ionic cap sync or ionic cap copy. If you found the app no longer loads as expected, try to check if is reverted!

Re-run the electron app, yeal!



ionic cap open electron

How to deploy a React App to Vercel host for free

David — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:48:14 +0000

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance, which enables frontend teams to do their best work.

This post outlines how to deploy React App to Vercel host for free. You might be interested in other free deployment options:

# Deploy React Apps on Vercel

Demo Site: https://xyz-vercel.vercel.app/
Github repo here

Create react app

npx create-next-app project-name
cd project-name

yarn
yarn dev

Install Vercel tools CLI

The Vercel command-line interface enables instant cloud deployment and local development.

npm i -g vercel

Login Vercel using CLI

vercel login

You will be prompted to enter an email, where a link will redirect you to a verification page. Click the VERIFY button to proceed.

After this, you will see below result in CLI:

Setup Vercel project from CLI

Note: you can also create a project using Vercel console, but using CLI is more convenient.

Run the below command

cd project-name
vercel

You need cd into the folder where React App is created. Follow the instructions as shown below:

Confirm YES.
Create a new Vercel project, by typing "y".
Input a project ID, e.g. "xyz-vercel", choose a directory where the code resides.
Overwrite the default settings if needed.
You might wish to override the build command if necessary

After a few seconds, your app will be deployed to Vercel and a URL will be given: e.g. https://xyz-vercel.vercel.app/

Open a browser window, and type the url: https://xyz-vercel.vercel.app/

Now, your app is deployed to Vercel! Happy coding, happy deploying!