Where I'm working now, we have a huge Visual Studio solution with hundreds of project files. The problem with this being that compile times are drastically reduced, causing great irritation and generally just hampering production.

Having a look around the web other people are definitely having this problem. Some suggestions are:

• Merge all the projects into one, or at very least merge any projects that can logically be merged. For example, unit test projects could really benefit from being merged.
• Have all projects output their bits to one directory.
• Disable anti-virus (only for the solution directory): Not much of a change. Maybe lost a few seconds build time, though results may vary. Would recommend doing this always just in case your virus checker is slowing things down.
• Combine the project files (this is generally not a great approach because the projects are split up like this so that our concerns are kept seperated).
• Creating new solutions which only contain smaller parts of the code base, and linking them to compiled dlls from the other projects (DLL hell).
• Parallel builds (Tools/Options./Projects and Solutions/Build and Run/Maximum Number of Parallel Project Builds): No noticeable change. The default setting was 4 by the way.
• Stop using TFS (purely unwarranted, but who knows? Thought I'd just throw that in there).
• Disable indexing on your source folders (windows search). No noticeable change. Didn't really expect anything to change here, because windows search has a way of delaying indexing as far as I know.

I'm going to have a look at these items tomorrow during lunch, and will update if I find anything good!

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Peace!

• Now compiles to .NET 3.5 instead of 2.0
• Added support for updating from the context menu
• You can now return an object instead of a string, and CodeAnywhere will do a ToString on it before writing it back

Sorry – haven’t been around in a while. Thought I’d stop by and release an awesome piece of software, CodeAnywhere.

Let’s say you have this:

And then you press CAPS LOCK:

CodeDOM compiled the code and executed it. (It’s C# code, by the way)

BAM.

I wrote this on the train travelling to work everyday.

Install it here

Things to note:

• It uses UI Automation to grab the text, so some apps won’t work. Notepad and Wordpad definitely do though.
• It’s meant to set CAPS LOCK state to off when it starts. Some people have reported that it doesn’t though. Comment below if this is you (state your OS please)

• Download the Asp.net MVC installer here.
• Run the setup file and Remove Asp.Net MVC.
• Reinstall.

Currently “2 errors out of 30054 tests” are reported in the version history. I’m going to wait for a future release, because it seems the code hasn’t been optimized properly for C# yet according to the benchmarks.

csharp-sqlite - Windows C# port of the SQLite library

http://www.copypastetool.com/

From the site:

This small tool allows to save several values of text in clipboard and paste them. Use standard keys for copying (CTRL+C) and pasting (CTRL+V) as usual, but if you want to paste previous text in clipboard then simply press V again and don't release CTRL. It's free.

Our first attempt at stop motion.

(Try watch them when you’re drunk, or else they might not be funny)

Adolf Hitler - Vista Problems!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExeyrNZwzwQ

Hitler Hates Valve

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Hitler_Hates_Valve_4/

Hitler- I want to break free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ax4jvLM9WI&feature=related

Adolf Hitler rap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k736WZfB6U

Hitler Finds Out He's A Joke On YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9mjEF_lEDE