Remove .pdb path from exe in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

If you look at executables shipped from Microsoft like notepad.exe, you will see that they include .pdb (Program Database) reference, but do not include path to .pdb: notepad.pdbvs d:\some\dir\release\bin\etc\notepad.pdb This path can sometimes reveal unnecessary information to your customer / user, so if you want to get rid of that path in Visual Studio 2008, …

Run as administrator missing for shortcuts created by Visual Studio Setup Project

When Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 creates Setup and Deployment project (Visual Studio Installer), it misses one important feature – ‘Run as administrator’ that is available form context menu (right mouse click) for shortcuts created on Desktop and in Start menu (under Windows Vista and Windows 7). To get normal shortcuts you need to edit …

Things that will make your website much faster

What will make my website faster? How to optimize page load time? How to make web site appear to load faster for end user? Updated Feb 9, 2011. This is excerpt from article: How big HTML images / CSS / JS / png / etc. should be to fit network packet (MTU) efficiently List of …