Monthly Snap November > OSMC 2017, OSDC 2018, Puppet, GitLab EE, Icinga 2, NETWAYS Startupdays, Visual Studio 2017

In November, we had our international Open Source Monitoring Conference where Markus announced the last tickets for. Julia blogged live OSMC news, and Michael explained how to replace spaces with tabs in Visual Studio 2017, while Dirk told us about Custom Datatypes in Puppet.
Nicole always brings something interesting every month, this time she showed some NETWAYS Web Services: GitLab EE and connect to your own Domain!. Noah explained Icinga 2 – CA Proxy, Christoph brought some creative stuff in “Unusual Surveillances” and Isabel shared some news on the SMSEagle.
Later in November, Dirk shared his impressions of OSMC day 1 and 2 as well as the news from the Hackathon on the last day of OSMC. Keya announced the Call for Papers for the Open Source Data Center Conference and last but not least, Philipp shared exciting news from the NETWAYS Startupdays, before the Christmas month at NETWAYS starts.

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Replace spaces with tabs in Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio has several source code edit settings. This defaults to 4 spaces and no tabs by default and is slightly different to what we use in Icinga 2. There we put focus on tabs in our code style.
Editing the Icinga 2 source code on Windows with Visual Studio requires adjusting the editor settings. Navigate into Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# and C++ and adjust the settings to „Keep tabs“.

I accidentally forgot to specify these settings for C# too, and had the problem that half of the Icinga 2 setup wizard code had 4 spaces instead of tabs. Luckily I’ve found this blog post which sheds some lights in the comments.
Hit Ctrl+H to open the replace search window. Tick the icon to use regular expressions and search for „((\t)*)([ ]{4})“. Add „\t“ as replacement text.

Happy coding for Icinga 2 v2.8 – ready for OSMC 🙂