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Did you start your URL with "ID"? 
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Just tried in Excel 2016, and it's sort-of fixed.
First you get a message telling you that the file format and extension do not match; the file is corrupt or unsafe; don't open it unless you trust the source.
When you click "Yes" to open it anyway, you get another message telling you that Excel decided it was an SYLK file, but couldn't load it; either the file has errors, or it's not an SLYK file; click "OK" to try opening it in a different format.
When you click "OK" in that message, the file opens as expected.
Interestingly, if you save the file from Excel, you don't get any warnings, and it doesn't insert the apostrophe listed in the "Workaround" section from that KB article. Probably because that would break the file for applications which don't try to second-guess the file type based on the content. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, we could ignore the warnings too, but stuff like this is just annoying, magical and logic defying.
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The wheels are loose everywhere today and the things we took for granted are no longer.
Those kids with the far away look in their eyes are now at the controls. There is no other way to explain what we are seeing today in terms of things that should never be in software.
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Ron Anders wrote: There is no other way to explain what we are seeing today
It is explained by the new retro:
RETRO-EVOLUTION
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I was working on a PIC project, I had a '.s' extension on an assembler source file, and it would fail to build, after much ado (me beating my head against a wall) I changed it to '.S' and it worked like a champ, aaarrrggg!!!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Wow 
I was recently working with Groovy and it picks up any .groovy, .gvy, .gy and .gsh files.
I guess that's the other extreme
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Educator Piss maybe for this inspection (5,7)
Audit process
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 18-Jul-17 9:39am.
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Oscar dispute? ( no idea...)
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Nope
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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And I still have not a clue what it is - the best I could come up with was anagrams of "Educator piss":
audit corpses
caped suitors
cider outpass None of which were particularly relevant... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yup - or "Peer review" with extra letters added somehow?
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Ah! Missed that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Robert Nadler wrote: I wish I had that much spare time!
You already have enough mobile phones? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's fake. No one has that many cell phones.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I was doing it at my previous work.
Every now and then Xamarin will have build issues and it was particularly painful with the Mac. Frankly I suspect it's the Max development constraints at work here, not Xamarin which is the issue.
But most of the time it worked out well. Particularly when you consider what you are doing (multi target phone OSes)
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Super Lloyd wrote: Particularly when you consider what you are doing (multi target phone OSes)
I do agree with that. It is amazing that they have gotten all this to work at all.
It's just annoying when things partially and/or intermittently work.
And, I must admit it was very cool to get that default app running on all three platforms (win10, ios, android).
Wow. Once it works (if it does) it almost makes you forget the pain. Almost. 
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raddevus wrote: Because no one really cares about Microsoft and/or Xamarin.
Thats true, kindof. Why invest time in something that they are going to drop again? By the time they get the problems sorted out, they already plan to get rid of it. I think it's easier to get rid of them.
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What makes you say they plan to get rid of it? Is there an article someplace that you read that you could provide the link to?
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CodeWraith wrote: Why invest time in something that they are going to drop again?
I know, right. We all feel like that out here. So many technologies that Microsoft has done that way.
It was really shocking when the Silverlight stuff just disappeared over night.
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I've been programming in Xamarin for several months. I experienced the problem you are referring to a couple of times early on. What I learned is that it is pretty picky about the versions running on both machines. If you update Xamarin for VS, then there is most likely an update that needs to be applied on the MAC side(Xcode). Keep everything up to date and you should be good. The other thing I did that also helped was to switch the MAC over from WiFi to hardwired and switched the dynamic IP to static.
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Thanks. I will keep those tips in mind.
littleGreenDude wrote: The other thing I did that also helped was to switch the MAC over from WiFi to hardwired and switched the dynamic IP to static.
My Mac is headless so all my work was across network via VNC and early on I was in such pain over WiFi that I implemented a hardwired solution too. 
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