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To stop resharper 5.0 code clean up from embracing all your code in #region #endregion tags, remove the <Group> xml nodes from the Type Members Layout settings as follows. Note, don't close the </Patterns> tag after pasting in the xml as otherwise Resharper wont let you save this dialog even though the xml is invalid. Below is the ...

Recently I discovered that the reset window layout menu option in most flavours of visual studio (at least 2008 and 2010), respects the layout that your workspace was in at the time of exporting your environment settings. This is down to the fact that under the general settings tree view node in the export dialog, the Window Layouts option is ...

Recently I had an issue where aspnet_regiis.exe -i was not updating the home directory configuration for my web root in Windows XP SP2. To resolve this I used the following commands, suggested by my colleague Mark Mann, instead to first remove all script maps to any version of ASP.NET from the specified path recursively, and then reinstall ...

See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx

If you're copying from specs where the BA has the replace hyphens with dash setting selected in Microsoft Word (which is checked by default), then be careful if you copy that generated dash character into your .master page file. I've found today when you hit save on the – (Alt + 0150 in notepad) character in a .master page file ...

Symptom  Aspnet_compiler.exe fails to produce any content apart from the PreCompiledApp.config and the Bin folder. Reason  When you save a solution containing a web project (file based), it sets the physical path property Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath for the aspnet_compiler. If you then subsequently save your ...