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Problems with MSBUILD tasks after playing with Visual Studio 2010

I use a custom MSBUILD xml file to build some of my projects so that i can run stuff to compress CSS/JS files and stuff like that. After installing Visual Studio 2010 and playing around a bit with suddenly my builds started to fail.
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets(132,11):
error MSB4064: The “Retries” parameter is not supported by the [...]

Quick attach to process in Visual Studio

When i debug web applications i like to go with the attach to process instead of pressing F5 when i use IIS as the development web server. It has lot of advantages:

If you are “deep down” in your application you do not have to start from the beginning again. Attach to process lets you debug [...]