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Unwanted Requests from Browser Link in Visual Studio 2013

I debugged a web application from Visual Studio 2013 (having recently upgraded from Visual Studio 2012) and then inspected the network traffic in search of a performance issue. I was rather surprised to find that the page was making calls back to a different port on my localhost server with a long URL containing “arterySignalR/poll?transport=longPolling“. […]

Visual Studio 2012 Tweaks

I am not at all keen on the look of Visual Studio 2012 but experience suggests you get used to anything after a while. Some tweaks I found useful: Disable the Mouse Wheel zoom by installing this extension. I use the mouse wheel and the control key quite a lot and sometimes trigger the zoom […]

“The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information”

I got the following dialog box from Visual Studio on debugging a Web Application: Microsoft Visual Studio The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information: C:UsersMyUserAppDataLocalTempTemporary ASP.NET Files1b3abf23b2c10ebaassemblydl3ba72d55bc2ecd6a3_6a4bce01MyDomain.MyProject.dll To debug this module, change its project build configuration to Debug mode. To suppress this message, disable the ‘Warn if no user […]

Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Viewer

This is a useful extension for Visual Studio 2010 which will calculate code metrics for your solution and display the results. It can be downloaded here though you will first need to install the Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0 which it uses to generate the statistics. To perform the analysis: Open the Code Metrics Viewer window […]

Removing Visual Source Safe Files from a Visual Studio Solution

This is a DOS command file to remove the Visual Source Safe files from a solution if you have the debatable honour of using it but wish to retrieve a clean copy of your solution. You will also need to open the solution file itself in a text editor and manually delete the “GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl)” section. […]