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Sometimes I F5 when I meant to just compile.

Usually such a mistake is followed by a "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" and quiet resignation to wait for my app to build and get to the point under the debugger where I can stop it. 

So here's a super-handy tip for larger projects I learned last week: You can cancel a build using CTRL+Break. 

Posted: Monday, October 09, 2006 1:13 PM by jfoscoding

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Nero said:

Sometimes I Alt+F4 instead of Alt+F5. Thats generally followed by cries of anguish, invocations of gods and frothing at the mouth....it could also be the coffee.
# October 9, 2006 2:25 PM

Stephan van Stekelenburg said:

Whoa, thanks I didn't know about this and actually bit myself quite a few times with F5 as well :)

# October 11, 2006 3:29 PM

bphillips76 said:

I assigned the "Build.BuildSelection" command in VS2005 to the F12 key.  Now, I use that button constantly to check the build state of the current project in the solution.

# October 13, 2006 5:14 PM

Glenn said:

Only problem with Ctrl-break is on our project we have cpu intensive build tasks, and ctrl-break doesn't respond during those build tasks. Ahh well :)

# October 26, 2006 10:14 PM

SER said:

Sometimes I just compile when I meant to F5...

# October 31, 2006 6:34 PM
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