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Extension: Text generator

- [Instructor] Lorem Ipsum is placeholder texts, commonly used in the graphic print and publishing industries for previewing layouts and visual mock-ups. There are plenty of websites that generate sample Lorem Ipsum text. Today, we'll look at a visual studio extension that we can use instead. We're looking at this one here called text generator. It was created by Mads Kristensen, a Microsoft employee in the developer division. It creates Lorem Ipsum, but it also has a number of other vocabularies for generating sample text. To see this in action, we'll have to install the extension. Here's a refresher on how to do that. In visual studio 2019, click on the extensions menu and then choose manage extensions. Go to the online section and search for text gen. This is the example we saw on GitHub. You can see its by Mads and I've already installed it so I get a green check mark here. If this is your first time seeing it in this…

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