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I requested new version of visual studio last year in August with long list of benefits... Yes I still have to work on VS 2008...Company requested price from vendor in September which expired in November.... The approval process at the company is so long I think snail can walk half way around the Earth by the time I get new version ... Request goes from Me to manager to his senior manager to CIO for budget approval... once approved it came back all the way to manager and budget approval came back yesterday.. by this time quote has expired and now I have to wait couple of more months before I get new VS .... 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Seriously? For $500 for the pro version of VS 2013?
How much money did they waste on involving 3 people above you?
It's amazing how f*ed up company purchasing policies can be.
Marc
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Only $500? I just bought VS 2010 Pro less than two years ago. It would have been nice if VS 2010 had qualified for an upgrade to VS 2013. I am using the express editions just to see if there is something I absolutely can't live without. I am not looking at doing store apps so that's not a draw.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Only $500? I just bought VS 2010 Pro less than two years ago.
I was quoting the cost for a new version. There appear to be upgrade paths. This was page of Microsoft's discussing preliminary pricing. Even so, $500 is cheap for what is an amazing tool. And it's a business write-off, for pete's sake. How stingy can a company be, when they should be making hundreds of thousands of dollars off whatever product their developing, and I would hope a heck of a lot more. If it's for internal development, well, frankly, I'd be happy still using VS2008. The only reason I'm using VS 2012 is for the latest and greatest F#, and because I'm writing an e-book on F# and I should be using the latest tool, for the sake of the reader.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: How stingy can a company be,
I asked for ReSharper (which some of our Dev's bought themselves!)
Then the Resharper people had a 75% off sale.
They still wouldn't buy it - for no other reason than nobody would make a friggin' decision.
I even did the calculation that if it saved me a minute a day it would pay for itself!
Because we have MSDN we get the latest and greatest MS products (although we're not using them yet) but anything that costs money is just too hard.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: They still wouldn't buy it - for no other reason than nobody would make a friggin' decision.
Ugh. Where do you work? That way I'll know never to work there!
Marc
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I guess you should go ahead and put in a request for Visual Studio 2018 now so you can get it in time.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Download the express editions and use them and then let your manager know he needs to get you the full versions for your projects to work fully.
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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If you don't use any plugins (ie ReSharper) and you do use TFS, the Express edition more or less offers everything you need!
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How about getting a new version of Visual Studio and more money? If your company don't treat you well, you have the option to find one that does respect you. Most IT positions are in too high of demand to spend time with an employer that doesn't value you! Get a new gig, a pay raise, and the tools you need to do your work!
Hogan
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How true that is, can be a matter of geography, divorced from skill levels.
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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At least you know it's likely you'll never get a pay rise. I'd be looking elsewhere...
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What do you expect from someone who's named BogusLawski? 
/ravi
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Ha!! That's too funny. I hadn't even picked up on it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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A nephew-in-law went to Wisconsin and filled up his truck with all the materials needed to make meth, a lot of meth and then just went on a joy ride around town and got caught, only ~19 years old and got 20.
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Quote: A nephew-in-law
Now, a nephew outlaw.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So you're saying he intended to make meth, got caught and 20 years?
Or did it for a laugh, and got 20 months?
Or sold the meth and got $20?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Does anyone here work for them or know about them? Here's[^] an opening I found at their portal and thought of article series that @ChristianGrausAKA CG had posted.
I was watching Pablos Holman videos and found about this.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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You'd have to live in Washington: it is wet there.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Oh it's not for me. For a change, I am an Indian who does not really want to go to US.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Heck it's so wet here people are starting to develop webbed toes...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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On the upside, we Washingtonians are guaranteed a place in Heaven: we're too wet to burn. 
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