When doing development on a SharePoint dev server, there may be the need to create multiple web applications. To prevent conflicts there are two possibilities: either use host headers or use a different port. To support host headers we can either add additional DNS entries or use the HOSTS file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc). Since my dev servers generally run as isolated VM’s, creating DNS entries isn’t an option. As a result I’ll commonly make modifications to the HOSTS file such as: # Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
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# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for...
Like most developers, I use VirtualPC for development using different images for each client/configuration. It’s a setup that works well. However, while typing away this morning in Visual Studio, lo-and-behold the Tab key stopped working! You might think that’s not the end of the world, surely a niggle rather than a full blown DEFCON 1 problem but I guarantee if you try to type more than 10 lines of code in Visual Studio without the services of the Tab key you’ll find out how irritating a problem it actually is! No tab = no keyboard control of Intellisense. ...