Visual Studio Code Markdown Preview (and Reasons Why it Might Not Be Working)

Markdown is now widely used in software engineering. AI-assisted development has increased adoption even further. This has made the Markdown Preview feature in Visual Studio Code and editors based on it extremely useful.

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How to generate a GUID or UUID without writing a program.

You don’t need to write a program to create a GUID or UUID. You likely have a tool that will already generate one for you. Let’s look at how to generate a GUID/UUID value in several different tools that already support this feature.

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Connect to SQL Server Using Python on Ubuntu Linux

In this Step-by-step beginner’s tutorial, we will look at how to connect to SQL Server using Python on Ubuntu Linux using the Microsoft ODBC driver.

Step-by-step Tutorial to Parse a CSV File Using Python

In this Step-by-step beginner’s tutorial, we will look at how to parse a CSV File Using Python.

Stop Visual Studio Code From Closing the Current File When Clicking a New File to Open It.

Opening files in preview mode is enabled by default in Visual Studio Code. Here are instructions to shut that off.

Quick-Start Guide to Setting Up a Python Development Environment on Ubuntu Desktop using Visual Studio Code

This Quick-Start guide shows how to set up a simple Python development environment using Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu Desktop.

Viewing Environment Variables in VS Code: Pay attention to the Terminal Type

Here’s a quick tip based on a recent mistake I made while trying to view an environment variable in the VS Code Terminal.

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