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Debugging faster in Local IIS with Visual Studio

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When we deploy in our local IIS, we have to attach to the IIS process in order to debug the source code from Visual Studio.  In order to do that, we open menu Deblug>Attach to Process, and we find the IIS process, which is called w3wp and we select all the corresponding IIS processes.  This method is time consuming, but using the extension Attach to All The Things we can carry out this task faster. In order to install the extension, we open the menu Tools>Extensions and Updates, and we search the extension "Attach To All The Things". After installing this extension, we can see a new option in Tools menu with the title "Attach to IIS". With this menu we can do the attaching task only with two clicks. However, as this is a feature that you will use very often, you might want to have it in your main toolbar instead of using the menu Tools. In order to make a shortcut in your toolbar, you can add a new customized button with the following menu.

Use tabs in windows explorer with QTTabBar

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QTTabBar is the first application that I install when I format my computer, since it allows me to work better with Windows Explorer. Basically, QTTabBar will change windows explorer in order to use tabs, as if you were using Chrome. This comes in handy when you are working with multiple folders, as for example several shared folders, local directories, etc. Apart from using tabs, QTTabBar has a lot of options to be customized. By clicking on right button over the toolbar you can access to the options menu: In tab "Tab" you can customise the behaviour of the events. For example, this is the configuration that I use: QTTabBar also add some extra behaviour, for example if you double click on an empty space in a folder, it will go up one level. This options can be changed in "Window" tab: Additionally, there are other useful features such as merge windows into tabs. If you have several instances of windows explorer, you can merge then into