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How to Install IIS on Windows 10

Although IIS is included in every installation of Windows 10, it’s not turned on by default. Here’s a way to install IIS on Windows 10.

Right-click on the Windows button on the bottom-left corner and select Run
In the Run dialog box, type appwiz.cpl and press ENTER.
As soon as a new window called Programs and Features is opened, click on the link Turn Windows features on or off.
Click on the Internet Information Services checkbox. By default it will install all you need to host a website. However you might want to check some other components that you might need as well. Once done, click OK and Close when it says “Windows completed the requested changes.”
Now open your browser and type in localhost and press ENTER. You should see a default web page is rendered in your browser.

That’s all there is to it and the default website directory will be in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder.

How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Hugo Static Site Generator

Based on a few questions on how to setup an environment to edit content using Hugo, here’s a few simple steps to follow if you want a quick and easy way to do it. Keep in mind, the beauty of using Hugo is that you are free to use any text editor you like.

This is not the only way to do it but this will get you there fast if you don’t have anything setup yet.

Assumptions

Hugo is already installed, if not please check out the steps on how to install Hugo. For Windows OS, here’s a simple way to install Hugo.
Git for Windows is also installed and setup. This is an optional step but it’s highly recommended if you want to track your edit history.

Steps

Download and install Visual Studio Code. Once done, launch the editor.
Download the following Visual Studio Code extensions to help you [Markdown Shortcuts, Better TOML, Git History]. While this step is optional, it will help to speed up your workflow in creating/editing your static site.
Once you created your Hugo workspace, open the folder from Visual Studio Code.

That’s about it and you’re ready to create your Hugo static site.

When you’re ready to publish the site, check out the post below if you’re thinking about hosting it on an IIS server.

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Visual Studio Code
Git
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How to Setup Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 for F#

If you want to try F# programming in Visual Studio 2017 (or 2019 for that matter), here’s what you might want to do to optimize Visual Studio to run optimally on your machine.

From the menu, go to Tools and select Options.
Under Debugging, set the Enable script debugging to True.
Under Misc, set 64-bit F# Interactive to True (if you use 64-bit Windows OS).

Set F# Interactive options to the following:

    --optimize- --readline+ --debug+ -d:TRACE

Set Shadow copy assemblies to True and click OK.

This “once and forget it” setup serves the following purposes:

Enable you to debug F# in Visual Studio and run it as a 64-bit process (better).
Set Visual Studio to output trace messages within F# scripts. You can also check the F# Interactive Options and the compiler options for more details.
Set the referenced assemblies not to be locked by the F# Interactive process.
Next, scroll up to Text Editor and expand on the F#.
Under General, check the Line numbers and click OK.

One more tip with F# project, when creating a new F# project you can choose between .NET Core or .NET Standard. But you can also use the .NET Framework for F# Console Application. Just make sure you select Visual F# on the left-pane of the new project window, then you can select the .NET Framework you want to use for your project.

How to Upgrade to PHP 7.2 on IIS (Windows 10)

This tutorial is a shorter version of the previous post upgrading to PHP 7.1 on Windows 10 and it is intended as a follow-up on how to upgrade your PHP to the latest version (in this case PHP 7.2) if you have already installed the previous version of PHP 7 in your Windows system.

Steps to Upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2

Download PHP for Windows. Since we’re using PHP as FastCGI, we’ll use the 64-bit Non-Thread Safe (NTS) version (i.e., php-7.2.1-nts-Win32-VC15-x64.zip).
PHP 7.2 is also the first version that requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017. If you don’t have it installed, you can download it from here (64-bit). If you have a 32-bit OS, please check on the download section below and select the one for x86.
We also need to upgrade our WinCache version for PHP 7.2. Download the WinCache php_wincache-2.0.0.8-7.2-nts-vc15-x64 and extract the file as well.
Extract both downloaded zip files (just double-click them and they will be extracted into their sub-folders) as shown below:
If you check the WinCache folder php_wincache-2.0.0.8-7.2-nts-vc15-x64, look for two files with the following names: php_wincache.dll and php_wincache.pdb.
Copy the two files from the WinCache folder to a sub-folder (“ext”) within the PHP folder (i.e., php-7.2.1-nts-Win32-VC15-x64/ext).
Now, copy the whole content of php_wincache-2.0.0.8-7.2-nts-vc15-x64 folder into a new folder and name it v7.2.
Copy the php.ini file from v7.1 to v7.2.

You might want to modify certain parameters in the php.ini as highlighted below:

[WebPIChanges]
error_log=C:\WINDOWS\temp\PHP72x64_errors.log
upload_tmp_dir=C:\WINDOWS\temp
session.save_path=C:\WINDOWS\temp
cgi.force_redirect=0
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
fastcgi.impersonate=1
fastcgi.logging=0
max_execution_time=300
date.timezone=Australia/Melbourne
extension_dir="C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.2\ext\"

And make sure you also have the PHP_WINCACHE set.

[PHP_WINCACHE]
extension=php_wincache.dll

The change is pretty simple and we can compare the two php.ini files between v7.1 and v7.2 as below:

Compare php.ini files between v7.1 and v7.2

Open IIS Manager and click on FastCGI Settings.
You can create a new entry for PHP 7.2 by following Step 8 from previous post, except for PHPRC where you want to update the value to 7.2 (i.e., C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.2).
Once completed, just click OK.
Go back to IIS Manager and click on Handler Mappings.
Look for PHP_via_FastCGI and double-click on it. Make sure the path for the Executable is updated accordingly. Click OK when done.

Update Windows Environment Variables

Finally, once again we need to update the path of the new PHP in Windows Environment Variables.

Click on the Windows start button and type in “system” and click on System Control panel.
In System window, click on Advanced system settings and on System Properties window, make sure you have Advanced tab opened. And you can follow the path shown in the picture to update the path to where your PHP 7.2 is located.
Click on Environment Variables… button.
Under System Variables, click on Path and Edit… button.
Click on where the current PHP is located and double-click it or click on Edit button.
Change the value to the location of the new PHP (i.e., C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.2)
Click OK button on each window to close.

That’s it! Now using the same test.php file with the following code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Run it from your browser (i.e., http://localhost/test.php). If PHP is installed with the correct version, you will see the PHP version will be updated similar to the picture below:

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Download PHP For Windows: Binaries and sources Releases
WinCache 2.0.0.8 PHP Extension Direct Download
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017

How to Reassign Shortcut Key for Column Selection in Visual Studio Code

If you use column selection often in Visual Studio Code, you may find the default shortcut keys combination is a bit too much. By default, to make a column selection or multiple lines in the same horizontal cursor position, you need to press CTRL-SHIFT-ALT and either UP or DOWN arrow depending on the direction of your selections.

Fortunately, you can always assign your own shortcut keys for virtually any functions in this powerful code editor.

So here are the steps to do so.

From the top menu, select File -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts (or press a combination of CTRL-K CTRL-S) to open the Keyboard Shortcuts windows.

Within Keyboard Shorcuts window, look for the following:

 
cursorColumnSelectDown
cursorColumnSelectUp
cursorColumnSelectPageDown
cursorColumnSelectPageUp

Right-click and select Change Keybinding (CTRL-K CTRL-K) and press the key combination you want to use and press ENTER to save it or ESCAPE to cancel. In this example, I use a keyboard combination SHIFT-ALT-ARROW. Repeat this step for each operation.
Once completed, you should see something similar to the screenshot below in your Keyboard Shortcuts window.

That’s it.

If you want to see the configuration in JSON format, you can click on the active link keybindings.json on the top of the Keyboard Shortcuts window (For advanced customizations open and edit keybindings.json), then you’ll see the JavaScript Object Notation that looks similar to the following:

// Place your key bindings in this file to overwrite the defaults
[
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+down",
        "command": "cursorColumnSelectDown",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+alt+down",
        "command": "-cursorColumnSelectDown",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+up",
        "command": "cursorColumnSelectUp",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+alt+up",
        "command": "-cursorColumnSelectUp",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+pagedown",
        "command": "cursorColumnSelectPageDown",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+alt+pagedown",
        "command": "-cursorColumnSelectPageDown",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+pageup",
        "command": "cursorColumnSelectPageUp",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+alt+pageup",
        "command": "-cursorColumnSelectPageUp",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    }
]

As indicated on the top banner of Keyboard Shortcuts window, as an advanced user, can always go straight to the keybindings.json and modify the keyboard shortcuts in the json file directly.

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