Visual Studio 2013, Team Explorer and BitBucket

With Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft started supporting Git directly with Team Explorer  and I have written a blog post how we can use git with team explorer and github called Visual Studio 2013, Team Explorer and GitHub. This post gained lots of popularity and also get lots of email about writing a blog post for using Git With BitBucket.org which is similar kind of source code hosting service like GitHub.com. So this post is all about it.

In this post I’m going to use a sample console application where we will put some code and then publish it to BitBucket Git Repository.  In this post I’m going to slightly take different approach then previous post but still you can do same way also previous post also.

In this post first we are going to create repository in BitBucket and then clone it on local. So here people will also get to know how we can create and clone a repository in local.

How to create repository in BitBucket:

If you don’t have account in BitBucket.Org then you need to create a account in BitBucket. You can create account from the following link.

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How to convert PSD into image file in c# with Magick.NET

Recently in one of project we had a requirement of converting a Adobe Photoshop file (PSD) into image file(.png) file. After digging while on internet I have found a great library which has so many features in can easily convert PSD files into any time of image file.

The Library is Magick.NET. It’s a open source project you can find more information about it from the following codeplex link.
https://magick.codeplex.com/

There are lots of example available for image conversion and other image editing functions. You can find that about that on documentation.
https://magick.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Convert%20image

There are lots of NuGet package are available also. Following is a one of them.

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How to change a profile picture in Visual Studio 2013

With Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft has provided synchronized settings in visual studio 2013 with live account. So all you need to do is to login into your live account and then it will automatically sync the settings of Visual Studio 2013 in different machine. Recently one of the reader of blog has asked me question How I can change the Profile Pic on Visual Studio. So I thought it will be good Idea to write a blog post about it.

Here’s how you can change profile picture of Visual Studio live/outlook account. One you done with sign in with visual studio it will load default image with your firstname first character and last name character like below.



Now to change the account picture or profile picture click on name load a popup like following.

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