Windows tips

win_tips.bat

- Determine why Visual Studio is rebuilding a project:
-- add a block to enable debug view output (devenv.exe.config); check DebugView for the reason.

VS2010
<system.diagnostics>
  <switches>
    <add name="CPS" value="4" />
  </switches>
</system.diagnostics>

VS2012+
<system.diagnostics>
  <switches>
   <add name="CPS" value="Verbose" />
  </switches>
</system.diagnostics>
-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2762930/vs2010-always-thinks-project-is-out-of-date-but-nothing-has-changed
-- https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647

- doskey for aliases ($* passes arguments):
-- doskey pegasus=X:\tools\pegasus\build.py $*

- You can Add an AutoRun key in your registry to execute a batch every boot.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor


- As a Jenkins build machine, it must start with batch file to setup the Visual Studio environment
  before it connects to Jenkins.
  
rem setup the visual studio environment
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"

rem Point java web start to the downloaded jnlp.
rem This must be previously downloaded via a web browser or else
rem the server will report 403.
javaws file:slave-agent.jnlp