How to Display Line Numbers in Visual Studio

Show Line Numbers in Visual Studio

It is always better to have Line numbers displayed in Visual Studio when you debug your VB or C# Project. It is not turned on by default. you can turn it on as shown below

Optimising Visual Studio Build Times

At my current workplace we have 203 projects in a single tanged web of a solution. This unfortunately means the majority of projects need to be built for any of the services or sites to function, thus breaking down the solution is not a viable solution at the moment. So I took a look at reducing those build times, and here are my results:

Rebuilding your solution

Running a rebuild in visual studio 2008 takes…

7:42 minutes

*Sigh* Let's try the same thing in the Visual Studio 2008 Command prompt:

Msbuild.exe mysolution.sln /t:rebuild

2:39 minutes

*Wow* Let's add some tweaks, first up is the multicore build tweak.

Msbuild.exe mysolution.sln /t:rebuild /m

1:25 minutes

*Pretty cool* There's a strange bug in the normal command line which slows down execution of running programs. So let's use a filelogger instead of a console logger.

Msbuild.exe mysolution.sln /t:rebuild /m /noconsolelogger /fl

Try it out and see if you get a decent benefits!

Building your solution

Running a normal build inside Visual Studio takes:

3:10 minutes

And using the command line:

Msbuild.exe mysolution.sln /t:build

27 Seconds

Now with the multicore tweak:

Msbuild.exe mysolution.sln /t:build /m

12 Seconds

So all in all not a bad way to manage a solution with 203 projects in it!
Happy deving…

How to Display Line Numbers in Visual Studio

Show Line Numbers in Visual Studio

It is always better to have Line numbers displayed in Visual Studio when you debug your VB or C# Project. It is not turned on by default. you can turn it on as shown below

Changes are not allowed while code is running or if the option 'Break all

If you are getting this error while editing the code, check if the Break all process option is enabled.

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