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🧑‍💻 About Me

I'm an Agentic Systems Designer at Centric Consulting, passionate about building tools and extensions that improve developer productivity. When I'm not coding, you'll find me working on woodworking projects or spending time with my family.

  • 🔭 Currently working on: Visual Studio extensions, MSBuild SDKs, and exploring agentic AI systems
  • 🛠️ Specialty: IDE extensibility (Visual Studio, JetBrains, VS Code)
  • ✍️ Blogging: Sharing knowledge at codingwithcalvin.net since 2012
  • 🌍 Location: Columbus, Ohio area
  • 🪵 Fun fact: I'm also a woodworker! (Husband | Father | Woodworker)

🛠️ Tech Stack & Tools

Languages & Frameworks

C# .NET TypeScript JavaScript

IDE & Extensions

Visual Studio VS Code JetBrains Rider

DevOps & Tools

GitHub Actions NuGet Docker Git

Observability

OpenTelemetry

🚀 Featured Projects

All my open source work lives at CodingWithCalvin - dedicated to developer tooling and IDE extensibility.

Project Description Stars
🧰 Developer Tools
⚡ dtvem Cross-platform runtime version manager (Node, Python, Ruby) Stars
📖 dtvem.io Documentation website for dtvem Stars
🖥️ VSToolbox System tray app for managing multiple VS installations Stars
📦 SDKs & Libraries
📦 VsixSdk Modern MSBuild SDK for VSIX development Stars
📊 Otel4Vsix OpenTelemetry support for VS extensions Stars
🔌 Visual Studio Extensions
📋 VS-VsixManifestDesigner Modern visual designer for VSIX manifest files Stars
🔄 VS-ProjectRenamifier Safe, comprehensive project renaming Stars
🌿 VS-GitRanger Git management with theme-adaptive visuals Stars
🧹 VS-SuperClean Recursively clean bin/obj folders Stars
📝 VS-OpenInNotepadPlusPlus Open files in Notepad++ from VS Stars
🔔 VS-BreakpointNotifier Get alerted when breakpoints hit Stars
📂 VS-OpenBinFolder Quick access to output directory Stars

🏆 GitHub Achievements

Arctic Code Vault Contributor Pull Shark Pair Extraordinaire

📫 Let's Connect!

💡 Got questions about Visual Studio extensions or .NET development?

I love helping developers and sharing knowledge. Feel free to reach out!

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"Technology has provided so much for my family and me. I want to give back."

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  1. CodingWithCalvin/dtvem.cli CodingWithCalvin/dtvem.cli Public

    Developer Tools Virtual Environment Manager (DTVEM) is a cross-platform virtual environment manager for multiple developer tools, written in Go, with first-class support for Windows, MacOS, and Lin…

    Go 3

  2. CodingWithCalvin/VsixSdk CodingWithCalvin/VsixSdk Public

    An MSBuild SDK for building Visual Studio extensions (VSIX) using modern SDK-style projects.

    C# 16

  3. CodingWithCalvin/Otel4Vsix CodingWithCalvin/Otel4Vsix Public

    OpenTelemetry support library for Visual Studio 2022+ extensions. Add distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and exception tracking to your VSIX with minimal configuration.

    C#

  4. CodingWithCalvin/VSToolbox CodingWithCalvin/VSToolbox Public

    Visual Studio Toolbox is a sleek system tray application for Windows that helps you manage all your Visual Studio installations in one place. Think of it as your personal command center for Visual …

    C# 2

  5. CodingWithCalvin/VS-OpenInNotepadPlusPlus CodingWithCalvin/VS-OpenInNotepadPlusPlus Public

    A Visual Studio extension that adds a right-click context menu command that allows you to open the solution file, project file, or file in Notepad++.

    C# 11 1

  6. CodingWithCalvin/codingwithcalvin.net CodingWithCalvin/codingwithcalvin.net Public

    This repo contains the code for the codingwithcalvin.net website. It is built using Jekyll (Ruby) and is deployed to GitHub Pages on push to main.

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