Hi everyone, this post is in my name but it’s authored by Sourabh Shirhatti. He is a Program Manager Intern from the University of Texas at Austin that I’ve had the pleasure of working with this summer. Below is his story, I hope you enjoy it.
Prior to my internship with Microsoft, my web stack of choice was Node.JS + Express + MongoDB, and I primarily developed on a Mac. Like most of the Node.js community I had a minimalist environment; my tools of trade were Sublime Text, a terminal window and a browser. This kind of lightweight environment was not possible with ASP.NET.
Using Visual Studio at Microsoft showed me the benefits of a full-featured environment. The intelligent auto-completions coupled with an integrated build and test environment made Visual Studio invaluable. However, I still missed the lightning fast experience with Sublime Text.
With that in mind, I set out to build tools to make it eas ...
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