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“The .NET Reflector 6 comes with a Visual Studio Add-in that lets you use Visual Studio's step-through-debugging on assemblies that you don't have the source code for.”

Source: http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewtopic.php?t=9768

You can download the tool here:

http://downloads.red-gate.com/EAP/Reflector/Reflector_6.0.0.307_Deploy.zip

If you ever encountered a slow initial web application loan (for the first user accessing the web application), if you are a asp.net developer you probably have, you may want to take a look at ScottGu’s blog post. One of the new ASP.NET 4 features is the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without having to wait for an external client to hit the web server.

In my opinion the down side of this feature is that it is not a .Net 4 only feature but you need to use it in combination with IIS 7.5 (which ships with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2). So basically you can’t install / use this feature on older web servers :( …

There are many settings that you can use to tweak this feature such as “startMode” (AppPool), “serviceAutoStartProvider” etc. which are explained here.

Hi all,

we want to congratulate LLBLGen Pro team on their 6th anniversary and to point out the upcoming 3.0 version with some new stuff in it:

- http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2009/09/07/happy-6th-anniversary-llblgen-pro.aspx

- http://www.llblgen.com

If you don’t know what a profiler is please go here and read more about it. For all of you that know what a profiler is, I just want to share a great link to a free profiler tool called “EQUATEC .NET Profiler”. You can find detailed instructions on how to use the profiler here.

For all those who love to build their projects manually or those using some automated build tools like CC Net (Cruse Control.Net – an Automated Continuous Integration server) you might wonder how use more than one CPU core for faster builds. Well here are few good links that will explain in detail how to force MSBuild to use more than one CPU core, and even how to use multi-core build inside the Visual Studio.

Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs by SCOTT HANSELMAN

Hack: Parallel MSBuilds from within the Visual Studio IDE by SCOTT HANSELMAN

Also to get more information on CC.Net go here.