Month: April 2017

Brace Completion and Auto Indentation in VS

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When I started coding Node.js in Visual Studio 2015, I noticed that I didn’t get automatic brace completion anymore (e.g. matching of curly braces). When I installed Visual Studio 2017 and started coding JavaScript and TypeScript, I noticed the same thing. When you’re coding C# in Visual Studio, the IDE usually matches braces automatically, and when you press enter it’ll also automatically indent the new line with spaces or tabs, which wasn’t activated either.

Luckily it’s easy to activate these things for JavaScript and/or TypeScript, and while the screenshots below are from Visual Studio 2017, I think it looks pretty much the same in Visual Studio 2015 as well.

Activating automatic brace completion for JavaScript and TypeScript

Automatic brace completion in Visual Studio 2017

Activating automatic indentation on new lines in JavaScript and TypeScript

Smart indentation for e.g. automatic indentation on new line

EmbedIO – A Tiny Embeddable C# Web Server

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EmbedIO is a tiny embeddable C# web server, that I tried out a while back. It was easy to embed it in a Windows Forms application, and I even added a web browser window using CefSharp, which I then used to display the HTML, JavaScript and CSS content that was served from EmbedIO. If you need a tiny web server or REST API, that can be embedded in a Windows Forms, or WPF application, then EmbedIO might be worth a try.

They list some potential use cases on their GitHub page:

  • Write a cross-platform GUI entirely in CSS/HTML/JS
  • Write a game using Babylon.js and make EmbedIO your serve your code and assets
  • Create GUIs for Windows services or Linux daemons
  • Works well with LiteLib – add SQLite support in minutes!
  • Write client applications with real-time communication between them

If you’re interested, then take a look at their web page for more information.