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Native Boot Windows Server 2008 R2 from VHD

As I developer I am interested to squeeze the most performance out of my development environment. I was so relieved when Windows 7 was introduced supporting booting from VHD files. So instead from running my development environment from a VHD file via Virtual PC 2007 I can boot the VHD directly.

I am using Windows 7 [...]

Deploying assemblies with WSPBuilder

By default WSPBuilder puts all referenced assemblies from the Setup project into GAC. I use the following to control that behaviour:

Set the output directories of the dependent assemblies to either 80\bin or GAC in the setup project.
The assemblies that some where referenced in a dependent assembly that should not be deployed: Reference in Setup project [...]