You know I've been complaining about randomness in software development, well, just for the record, here's a typical example.
I sit down this morning and hit F5 in a single page testing ASP.NET 4 app. I wonder why the page is taking so long to display. After Alt-Tabbing around I eventually discover a hidden popup that says "Attach Security Warning" (picture below). I have never seen this popup before in 9 years of .NET development, not until this morning. I have not changed any code, nor have I reconfigured or installed anything on my dev machine. So I start web searching as usual. I find some irrelevant articles about security Group assignments. Then I find the instructions about a manual registry change HERE <http://thethoughtfulcoder.com/2010/04/25/Visual-Studio-2010-Attach-Security -Warning-Trying-To-Attach-To-W3wpexe> and restart VS2010 but it has no effect. I discover my change has not stuck, so I make it again while VS2010 is not running, then restart and the popup seems to have gone. The actual error is not important, it's the fact that it happened so unexpectedly and wasted the first half hour of my working day. This is small but very typical example of what is slowly sucking away my productivity in recent times. Greg
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