Pull/Push/Fetch issue after Visual Studio Update

 A few days back, when I was working on Visual Studio 2019, my eyes suddenly stopped at the bell icon in the bottom right corner of the application. When I clicked on it, the notification panel slid in. I found that an update for visual studio is available. So, I clicked on it to update my Visual Studio 2019 to the latest version and started working on my project but, when I tried to push/pull the changes from/to the azure Git repo, I was no longer able to do so. I was worried and tried many things like closing down the application and loading back the project, but nothing worked for me.

Whenever I tried to pull the changes I got the error in the output panel of Visual Studio saying

“Cannot determine the organization name for this 'dev.azure.com' remote url. ensure the credential.usehttppath configuration value is set, or set the organization name as the user in the remote url '{org}@dev.azure.com'.”

and when I was trying to push or fetch the things I got the error saying “Git error - Fatal.”

At last, I thought of checking the Git setting in the visual studio. So I clicked on Tools > Options > Source Control

 

Here I found that under Source Control there are Git Global Settings and Git Repository Settings to view and configure global-level or repository-level settings.

I clicked on Git Global Settings and thought of comparing the preferences with the prescribed ones from the source: Git settings in Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs 

Here I found four dropdowns were still selected as "Unset" against what is prescribed by Microsoft Docs.

So, I changed those four dropdowns as per the source to

•  Prune remote branches during fetch - False
• Rebase local branch when pulling - False
• Cryptographic network provider - OpenSSL
• Credential helper - GCM Core

Then tried my luck to pull the changes, Voila! It worked for me, now I can pull the changes and even push or fetch things from the repo.

Top 5 websites for free Vector Graphics

A curated list of awesome websites for free Vector Graphics  

Fred R. Barnard rightly said, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. This adage is apt in the design world. No matter what we are designing whether an application or a website or in any print media, the use of images convey more clearly the idea the designer wants to showcase to the user, rather than using words.

Today the world has moved on from using image formats namely .jpg and .png to much better SVGs (scalable vector graphics). The reason why the design world is using the SVG format images is, they are scalable, they can be printed with high quality at any resolution, even zoomed or resized without losing image quality (avoiding pixelation). With all these qualities SVG has become a W3C standard.  

Concerning licensing, most vector images are free of restrictions from copyright, or they are licensed under Creative Commons Public Domain or some images may require attribution. It is therefore advisable to practice due diligence in the use of an image, to avoid any legal infringement.   

With the licensing issue in mind let’s move on to the top free picks in Vector Graphics. 

1. Freepik 

 

 A thought to provide a free graphic resources platform, culminated in the creation of Freepik in 2010. Since then, the company expanded at full speed with two new projects: Flaticon and Slidesgo. They uncovered a niche in the market, companies for instance NASA, Amazon, Spotify, FedEx, and Microsoft use Freepik’s resources. 

Freepik provides high-quality content such as illustrations, images, icons, mock-ups, and presentation templates. 

2. Vecteezy

 

Vecteezy launched in May of 2007 with the main goal of allowing its users to license images directly from artists.

Vecteezy provides designers with all the image resources they need to enhance their creative work, wherever they are in the creative process with worry-free licensing. It is an excellent place for designers who frequent the site to get inspiration and source files. Vecteezy has a huge database of design sources and elements to pick from. 

3. All-free-download.com 

All free download was created by a group of young and creative individuals in 2015. They publish new design content created daily via their studio BSG. They provide a vast range of design content like vectors, photos, PSDs, icons, templates, and fonts. All you need to do is just enter a keyword in the search box and voila! You get the design work that best suits your project.

4. VectorStock 

    

 

VectorStock® officially launched in late 2007 with a small selection of Vectors. 

Gone are the days of old where you need to pay large sums for vector images to enhance your design projects. At present, we can see many websites with free design content popping up all over the web. One such website is VectorStock, the world’s Premier Vector-only Image Marketplace with over 28,150,411 Royalty Free Vector Images and growing.

5. Undraw

Undraw Launched in 2017, with the simple goal of allowing designers to contribute to the open-source community, to help bring beautiful design abilities to all.

Apart from finding tons of vector illustrations, the unique feature of this website is we can change the colour of the illustrations with on-the-fly colour image generation to match our own brand identity. Here we also find modern and super lightweight alternative illustrations, designed by hand.