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Vote for "Deleted File Content Search" in Azure DevOps!

I’ve submitted a feature request to the Azure DevOps team to allow us the option to search the contents of “deleted” files in the Azure DevOps Repo code search. Feel free to vote for this feature here 😊 https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Search-for-Deleted-Files-and-within-Dele/10689684

Tuning Costs on my Azure Development Machine

I’ve been storing my development machines up in Azure instead of buying a new laptop. And I really like this approach.  By far the most useful aspect is that I needed to completely rebuild a machine the other day to get my development tools all working properly. The conversion from an older version of my dev tools to a newer version did not go so well, and the solution turned out to be just moving to a new machine. In Azure this was trivial as I just fired up a new VM. But this is something you could do locally as well, and I’m wondering if I need to do that, because one thing I’m learning is that AZURE can be Expensive. Now by “expensive” it should be noted that I just hit $60/mo in my VM dev environment, so not actually that much money, but it’s an environment I only use a few hours per month for side work, so very expensive per hour. A couple of issues I’ve had: When you remove a VM, it doesn’t automatically remove the disks, which is maybe a good thing, but on a VM yo...