Speed Up Visual Studio 2012 + Build Performance,

Here are 2 recent options that imporved Build (MSBuild) performance: 1): Go to OPTIONS>ENVIRONMENT..under Visual Experience, untick “Use Hardware Graphics Acceleration If Available” for some weird reason your dev environment should loosen / speed straight up. Works on all or our laptops. If you have any doubt if yours is on go slow, op 2) Goto Tools>Options>Environment>Add In Security You will see a checkbox with “allow add in components to load” .Just uncheck it. Restart the IDE and check the lightning speed of the IDE now…

IIS Bindings HTTP and HTTPS, SharePoint 2010 Alternate Access Mapping and SSL

Example binding exposing server to intranet and un-trusted domains in same network, with http and https, Used MS self signing certificate for Dev purposes, Used for reference : This shows IIS8 bindings with various binding to expose a dev server to intranet , also showing corresponding SharePoint 2010 Alternate Access Mappings for bindings to support ssl, and ssl storage of self signed cert and IIS config for SSL cert. In this case using self signed ssl cert for dev / demo purpose only. 1. IIS 8 Bindings

2. SharePoint 2010 Alternate Access Mappings

3. SSL certmgr.msc

4. IIS SSL Config

Code Search Engine : Code.OpenHub

One of the coolest Ive seen in a while Black Duck Open HUB @ http://code.openhub.net/ makes it a breeze to find hard to find code samples, the results are displayed quickly with an intuitive preview interface for quickly checking out result, Break out of the GooglGulag come over to http://code.openhub.net/, Example Search for sharepoint 2010 sandbox solutions yields this: