You may have PDB generation in your release configuration. Add this to your release settings:

    &lt;DebugSymbols&gt;false&lt;/DebugSymbols&gt;
    &lt;DebugType&gt;None&lt;/DebugType&gt;

You can also, do this in your project configuration inside visual studio. [Disable PDB Generation][1]

Also, if running MSBuild from the command line, the command line arguments would be 

    MSBuild.exe YourProject.csproj /p:DebugSymbols=false /p:DebugType=None


  [1]: http://gchandra.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/disable-pdp-file-generation-in-release-mode/

Windows XP, Python 2.5:

    hash(&#39;http://stackoverflow.com&#39;) Result: 1934711907

Google App Engine (http://shell.appspot.com/):

    hash(&#39;http://stackoverflow.com&#39;) Result: -5768830964305142685


Why is that? How can I have a hash function that will give me same results across different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac)? 



Built in Python hash() function

I have an odd situation where I want to have the URLs `app1.example.com`, `example.com` and `*.example.com`  all using a different virtual host.  This is what I have (excluding `example.com` because it just makes it messier).

    &lt;VirtualHost *&gt;
      ServerName app1.example.com
      ServerAlias app1.example.com
    
      DocumentRoot = /var/www/app1
      # Other configuration for this app here
    
    &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
    
    &lt;VirtualHost *&gt;
      ServerName wildcard.example.com
      ServerAlias *.example.com
    
      DocumentRoot = /var/www/wildcard
      # other configuration for this app here
    
    &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;

The problem is that they conflict.  Whichever one is listed first wins out. How can I host both a wildcard virtualhost and a specific one?

Note: I&#39;m not just changing `DocumentRoot` in the config, so using `mod_rewrite` to change the DocumentRoot variable does not fix it.


Virtualhost For Wildcard Subdomain and Static Subdomain

I&#39;m looking to squeeze some more speed out of my build and was wondering if I could instruct msbuild to not generate PDB files.  I&#39;m passing the `Configuration=Release` and `DebugSymbols=false` property with no luck.



Disable generating PDB files in MsBuild

<p>I'm looking to squeeze some more speed out of my build and was wondering if I could instruct msbuild to not generate PDB files.  I'm passing the <code>Configuration=Release</code> and <code>DebugSymbols=false</code> property with no luck.</p>


What types of exceptions should be thrown for invalid or unexpected parameters in .NET? When would I choose one instead of another? 

## Follow-up:
Which exception would you use if you have a function expecting an integer corresponding to a month and you passed in &#39;42&#39;? Would this fall into the &quot;out of range&quot; category even though it&#39;s not a collection? 



What exceptions should be thrown for invalid or unexpected parameters in .NET?



I have several classes that do not really need any state. From the organizational point of view, I would like to put them into hierarchy.

But it seems I can&#39;t declare inheritance for static classes.

Something like that:

    public static class Base
    {
    }
    
    public static class Inherited : Base
    {
    }

will not work.

Why have the designers of the language closed that possibility?


  [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556203/how-can-a-static-class-derive-from-an-object

Why can&#39;t I inherit static classes?

When I create and compile a &quot;Hello, World!&quot; application in C#, I get three files in the Debug folder apart from the main exe (e.g. HelloWorld.exe)

1. HelloWorld.vshost.exe
2. HelloWorld.pdb
3. HelloWorld.vshost.exe.manifest

What purpose do these files serve?


What is the purpose of the vshost.exe file?

I&#39;m looking for the simplest way of converting a query string from an HTTP GET request into a Dictionary, and back again.

I figure it&#39;s easier to carry out various manipulations on the query once it is in dictionary form, but I seem to have a lot of code just to do the conversion. Any recommended ways?

Best way to convert query string to dictionary in C#

I am looking for a process by the name of &quot;MyApp.exe&quot; and I want to make sure I get the process that is owned by a particular user. 

I use the following code to get a list of the processes:

    Process[] processes = Process.GetProcessesByName(&quot;MyApp&quot;);

This gives me a list of processes, but there does not appear to be a way in the Process class to determine who owns that process?  Any thoughts on how I can do this?


How do I determine the owner of a process in C#?

Is it possible to add messages to  the built-in error console of Firefox from JavaScript code running in web pages?

I know that I there&#39;s Firebug, which provides a `console` object and its own error console, but I was looking for a quick fix earlier on and couldn&#39;t find anything.

I guess it might not be possible at all, to prevent malicious web pages from spamming the log?

Log to Firefox Error Console from JavaScript

The Immediate Window is an immensely useful tool for debugging applications. It can be used to execute code statements that are valid in the context of a break point and inspect values. I also use it to type code snippets to learn language features.

How do you use the Immediate Window?

How do you use the Immediate Window in Visual Studio?

&gt; **Possible Duplicate:**  
&gt; [How to tell if a .NET application was compiled in DEBUG or RELEASE mode?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/194616/how-to-tell-if-a-net-application-was-compiled-in-debug-or-release-mode)  

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I&#39;m sure this has been asked before, but google and SO search failed me.

How can I identify if a DLL is a release build or debug build?


How to identify if the DLL is Debug or Release build (in .NET)

As per the question.
In the debug view, there&#39;s the Variables frame. It shows all the values of member variables of the current object, and all of the local variables, but it doesn&#39;t show any static variables of the object&#39;s class.

How do I get to these?

Some googling has suggested I press the button on the toolbar, but there&#39;s nothing on the Variables frame&#39;s toolbar except &quot;Show Type Names&quot; &quot;Logical Structure&quot; and &quot;Collapse All&quot; (Eclipse 3.4.2).

Any advice?

Modify/view static variables while debugging in Eclipse

I am using eclipse 3.4.1 Java EE under Vista. It seems to like getting stuck when building my workspace. Canceling the build doesn&#39;t seem to do anything as well.

Why is this happening and how do I fix the problem?

eclipse stuck when building workspace

Does anyone know how to read a x.properties file in Maven. I know there are ways to use resource filtering to read a properties file and set values from that, but I want a way in my pom.xml like:

    &lt;properties file=&quot;x.properties&quot;&gt; 
    
    &lt;/properties&gt;


There was some discussion about this:
[Maven External Properties][1]


  [1]: http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg70112.html

How to read an external properties file in Maven

I want to get the build status in TFS (whether it is succeeded or failed). Which classes and methods can be used for this purpose?


How to get TFS Build Status notifications?

I&#39;ve seen questions about IDE&#39;s here -- [Which is the best IDE for Scala development?][1] and [What is the current state of tooling for Scala?][2], but I&#39;ve had mixed experiences with IDEs. Right now, I&#39;m using the Eclipse IDE with the automatic workspace refresh option, and KDE 4&#39;s Kate as my text editor. Here are some of the problems I&#39;d like to solve:

 1. **use my own editor** IDEs are really geared at everyone using their components. I like Kate better, but the refresh system is very annoying (it doesn&#39;t use inotify, rather, maybe a 10s polling interval). The reason I don&#39;t use the built-in text editor is because broken auto-complete functionalities cause the IDE to hang for maybe 10s.
 1. **rebuild only modified files** The Eclipse build system is broken. It doesn&#39;t know when to rebuild classes. I find myself almost _half_ of the time going to project-&gt;clean. Worse, it seems even after it has finished building my project, a few minutes later it will pop up with some bizarre error (_edit_ - these errors appear to be things that were previously solved with a project &gt; clean, but then come back up...). Finally, setting &quot;Preferences / Continue launch if project contains errors&quot; to &quot;prompt&quot; seems to have no effect for Scala projects (i.e. it always launches even if there are errors).
 1. **build customization** I can use the &quot;nightly&quot; release, but I&#39;ll want to modify and use my own Scala builds, not the compiler that&#39;s built into the IDE&#39;s plugin. It would also be nice to pass [e.g.] `-Xprint:jvm` to the compiler (to print out lowered code).
 1. **fast compiling** Though Eclipse doesn&#39;t always build right, it does seem snappy -- even more so than `fsc`.

I looked at Ant and Maven, though haven&#39;t employed either yet (I&#39;ll also need to spend time solving #3 and #4). I wanted to see if anyone has other suggestions before I spend time getting a suboptimal build system working. Thanks in advance!

**UPDATE** - I&#39;m now using Maven, passing a project as a compiler plugin to it. It seems fast enough; I&#39;m not sure what kind of jar caching Maven does. A current repository for Scala 2.8.0 is available [[link][3]]. The archetypes are very cool, and cross-platform support seems very good. However, about compile issues, I&#39;m not sure if fsc is actually fixed, or my project is stable enough (e.g. class names aren&#39;t changing) -- running it manually doesn&#39;t bother me as much. If you&#39;d like to see an example, feel free to browse the pom.xml files I&#39;m using [[github][4]].

**UPDATE 2** - from benchmarks I&#39;ve seen, Daniel Spiewak is right that buildr&#39;s faster than Maven (and, if one is doing incremental changes, Maven&#39;s 10 second latency gets annoying), so if one can craft a compatible build file, then it&#39;s probably worth it...


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/419207/which-is-the-best-ide-for-scala-development
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/796258/what-is-the-current-state-of-tooling-for-scala
  [3]: http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases
  [4]: http://github.com/gatoatigrado/skalch/tree/master

What&#39;s the best Scala build system?

Instead of running an external program with its path hardcoded, I would like to get the current Project Dir. I&#39;m calling an external program using a process in the custom task.

How would I do that? AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory just gives me the location of VS 2008.

How do you get the current project directory from C# code when creating a custom MSBuild task?

I was having a look at `$(Configuration)`,`$(ProjectDir)` etc. in Visual Studio 2008 for Prebuild events.

Is there a link to all of these variables with a definition for each one of them?

Link to all Visual Studio $ variables

I want to build projects from the command line. Is it possible to deploy a C# compiler without installing [Visual Studio][1]?

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio


Is it possible to install a C# compiler without Visual Studio?

I have a VS2008 I want to copy certain files from a directory into my `/bin/` folder.  I have set the files (located in `/common/browserhawk/`) to &quot;Copy to Output Directory&quot;.  However, it copies the folder structure as well:  the files are copied to `/bin/common/browserhawk/`

How do I get these files to copy to just `/bin/`?  I do not want to store these in the root of the website to get them to copy correctly.

Related Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1013419/visual-studio-adds-dll-and-pdb-to-project-after-compiling/1013561


Copy to Output Directory copies folder structure but only want to copy files

Is there any way to disable specific MSBuild warning (e.g. MSB3253) when running MSBuild from command line? My build script calls msbuild.exe much the following way:

    msbuild.exe MySolution.sln /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release

I&#39;ve found out that I can suppress C# warnings (e.g. CS0618) using another parameter for msbuild.exe:

    msbuild.exe MySolution.sln /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:NoWarn=0618

However, this approach doesn&#39;t work for MSBuild warnings. Maybe there is another magic property to set?

I&#39;m using .NET 3.5 and VS2008.

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Virtualhost For Wildcard Subdomain and Static Subdomain

Built in Python hash() function

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