Episode

Blazm and StageCoder Extensions for Visual Studio

with Leslie Richardson, Jimmy Engström

Visual Studio Toolbox

Microsoft MVP Jimmy Engstrom shows two of the extensions he wrote. Blazm helps you with common Blazor tasks and StageCoder makes your presentations more streamlined and easier to watch.

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 02:15 - Overview of Blazm extension
  • 04:00 - Overview of StageCoder
  • 06:00 - Demo of Blazm
  • 06:25 - Viewing routes with Blazm
  • 07:20 - Creating isolated CSS and JavaScript
  • 08:20 - Navigating with keyboard shortcuts
  • 09:20 - Moving namespaces
  • 10:20 - Moving code behind to razor
  • 12:30 - Finding component usages
  • 14:15 - Generate bUnit tests for components
  • 17:55 - Why did Jimmy create StageCode
  • 21:00 - Highlighting selected code
  • 24:25 - Creating and using snippets
  • 27:00 - Replacing code
  • 29:00 - Adding text from the clipboard
  • 30:20 - Discussion of using the extension
  • 31:00 - Discussion of an extension Jimmy is working on
  • 33:40 - Wrap-up

Blazor
Visual Studio