If you keep getting new instances of the ASP.NET development server when you attach to aspnet_wp.exe process...
…go to project properties for the web site project, Start Options, check Use custom server (instead of default)
“ I firmly believe that widgets (local HTML/CSS/Javasctipt web apps) are the future of the mobile web. They are easy to create, they’re based on open standards, they save the end user quite a bit of network traffic, and many people around the world already know how to create them. ”
“ the single most important factor in determining whether or not a person will adopt one of these sites is whether or not it is the place where their friends hangout ”
“ Presence always trumps presents. ”
 - Weird characters in Visual Studio 2008
I am using VS 2008 while most of my team is on 2005. Recently after syncing with CVS, my solution would not build. One of my code-behind files had the characters “” prepended to it. After a bit of googling, I found this:
“Those are the marks some Windows applications use to distinguish UTF-8 from ASCII (they are a translation of the U+FEFF byte order marks into UTF-8). I’ve never done anything with VS and aspx, so I don’t know how to get rid of them. Maybe there is a way to tell VS to save things in UTF-8 without the marks (if you still want them to be UTF-8) or to just save them in ASCII (if you don’t care about UTF-8).” (from here)
According to Wikipedia, “a text editor that does not recognize UTF-8 will display “” at the start of the document, even if the UTF-8 contains only ASCII and would otherwise display correctly.” Hmmm, sounds like our issue, doesn’t it?
So, I dug around in Visual Studio until I found the “Auto-detect UTF-8 encoding without signature” option (Tools->Options->Text Editor)
That did the trick. I re-synced with CVS and verified that the issue is gone. The “” characters are no longer showing up.
“ There are no longer ‘dancers.’ the possessed. The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed with heroes who live for us and whom we punish. […] We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark. ”
Jim Morrison, The Lords and the New Creatures
“ To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ”
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - There ain’t but one way (Kicking ass)
