Visual Studio tips&tricks

AL.exe was not found - Visual Studio 2008

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:23:55 GMT

Task failed because "AL.exe" was not found, or the correct Microsoft Windows SDK is not installed. The task is looking for "AL.exe" in the "bin" subdirectory beneath the location specified in the InstallationFolder value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A. You may be able to solve the problem by doing one of the following: 1) Install the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. 2) Install Visual Studio 2008. 3) Man

Speed up Visual Studio 2005 Performance

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:00:58 GMT

I found these great links in scott bolg while searching for anyways to speed up Visual Studio 2005 Performance.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx
Tip/Trick: Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Project Build Performance with Visual Studio 2005
Public Hotfix Patch Available for VS 2005 F5 Debugging Performance Issue with ASP.NET
Speed up Visual Studio 2005
Optimize the Launch of Visual Studio 2005

Thanks scottgu