Vim Plugin Development Workflows

June 3, 2020

I use a Vim Plugin Manager called Vundle to install and update all my Vim plugins.

When developing a new plugin with Vim, it is useful to be able to develop locally, test the changes in Vim and be able to push the changes to a Git repository.

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Building Dotnet Diagnostics

May 31, 2020

I’m getting an error trying to build dotnet/diagnostics:

root@85bd9fba8925:/app/diagnostics# dotnet build
A compatible installed .NET Core SDK for global.json version [3.0.100] from [/app/diagnostics/global.json] was not found
Install the [3.0.100] .NET Core SDK or update [/app/diagnostics/global.json] with an installed .NET Core SDK:
  3.1.200-preview-014999 [/app/sdk/.dotnet/sdk]

Hmmm. ok, let’s look at that global.json:

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Understanding Dotnet Core Pdb Files

May 10, 2020

The following documents how to inspect pdb symbols and metadata with the dotnet core metadata visualizer, which is part of the metadata-tools. I’m running this for a sample app I wrote for debugging in SOS, called test_debug. The source for it is available in my dotnet-sos testing repo.

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