Jan 22, 2010

Working faster with Visual Studio 2008 website

I just wanted to share with you that you can actually start using the page and debug before all the actions that are known as a build are performed by Visual Studio 2008.

You can actually skip the "Validating WebSite" part.
Here is how I do it:

1. Hit Build button
2. View -> Output window
3. Watch the output window, when it says "Validating website", check out your Errors List (View -> Errors List).

Seems that Visual Studio will know the errors in your website / projects in the solution, before it finishes validating the website itself. It simply waits the validation to finish in order to popup this window.

If there are no errors - you can start debugging the site.
If there are - you can press CTRL + Break to stop validating the web site and fix the errors.

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