If you, like me, like to take a deep plunge into Visual Studio debugging, you might've encountered the dreaded Web server process termination error, "The web server process that was being debugged has been terminated by Internet Information Services":
It's very irritating when you're in the middle of a debugging session and it's stopped by the error message above. But - there's a solution! As the error message tells us, you can configure application pool settings in IIS.
This is how to do make sure you'll be able to debug forever:
- Pop up your IIS and find the correct Application Pool
- Right click and choose Advanced Settings
- Below Process Model, find Ping Enabled and make sure it says False:
- Done!
Here are a couple of quick steps that will make your Visual Studio faster (particularly 2005 and 2008 version):
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Turn off AutoRecover
Under Tools->Options->Environment->AutoRecover, untick Save AutoRecover information every.
This turns off the AutoRecover mode, which makes sure you quickly can get crashed Visual Studio instances back.
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Turn off animations
Under Tools->Options->Environment, untick Animate environment tools.
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Turn off track changes
Under Tools->Options->Text Editor, untick Track changes.
Track changes is used to tell you what section of the code you've recently edited.
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Turn off the Visual Studio start page
Under Tools->Options->Environment->Startup, choose the alternative Show empty environment under At startup.
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Install the latest service pack
It's always a great idea to have the latest service pack installed. Download Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008.
Visual Studio sometimes points out that HTML and CSS in a project doesn't validate, showing the dreaded Error list with errors and warnings.
This is one of the most annoying things about Visual Studio, since it becomes harder to find real compilation errors in the error list. Plus, it's better to use the web browser and add-ons (e.g. Firefox with the HTML Validator add-on) to find validation errors.
This is how the error list might look in Visual Studio, pointing out validation errors:
How to turn off validation errors in Visual Studio
- In Visual Studio, go to Tools->Options and expand the node Text Editor.
- To turn off HTML validation, expand the node HTML, choose Validation and untick Show errors under Options. Press Ok.
- To turn off CSS validation, expand the node CSS, choose CSS Specific and untick Detect errors under Errors. Press Ok.
- Done!