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Torture by "Baby Shark" seems to be fashionable these days 
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Should they be required to state ... ?
You mean, "If I click on the Visual Studio 2019 control and get directed to the Visual Studio 2022 webpage, can I expect to get any information about a standalone license purchase of Visual Studio 2022, specifically NOT Visual Studio 2019, and feel satisfied that I have done the right thing and acquired a 64-bit compiler/linker IDE from Microsoft?"
Getting useful answers: a topic for the ages.
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You sure do! The Lounge[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Amen...and the more it takes!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Garth Brooks was a good listen until he went all weird with his Chris Gaines persona. At that point, his music turned to crap.
Country music itself has generally turned to crap since the late 90's. It seems as if all the good songs have already been written.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm going to really date myself here, but my dad thought country music turned to crap when the Nashville sound became popular, in the late 1950's and 60's. I thought it turned to crap when I couldn't tell whether a song was country or pop in the 70's. I don't know what phrase is being used to classify country today but I'm sure a percentage of people who liked country 10 years ago think that it's turned to crap now.
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'Chris Gaines' that is new for me. Thanks.
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Apparently good players are just too hard to find.
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And they ain't income free.
Edit: Are they Guinness-worthy then?
modified 7-Nov-21 13:26pm.
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I tried asking this in Q&A, but the submission gizmo is... unfriendly[^].
I'll take momentary advantage of my status as a CP old-timer and an old fart who doesn't give a rat's ass.
Scenario: Editing in a C++, Windows desktop project.
1. Is there a way to keep IntelliSense from taking control of the keyboard? It pops up a drop list of choices to select an item, which you then must dismiss using [Esc] before you can move the cursor elsewhere. This is a PITA. I'd don't want to disable IntelliSense entirely.
2. Find and Replace. I like to select some text, and then do a find an replace within the selection. Unfortunate if find/replace isn't already set for "Selection", it dismisses your selection, highlights all of the matches, etc. This. Is. Not. Helpful. The only way to make find/replace work the way I want is to invoke find/replace, set to 'Selection', change focus and select the text, and then go back to find/replace. This is cumbersome. Previously I could set the selection, find/replace, and go.
IMO neither one of these functions should alter the user's 'flow' in any way. I've looked through all of the Tools|Options for C++ editing, environment, etc. and can't find anything that seems to work.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I agree with your assessment of these features. However, I think most of us just deal with the cumbersomeness and tell ourselves that it's part of the job.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Exactly! What's the point of complaining when you can endure? Not doing a Yorkshire man, but when I was young I used to program in binary with mechanical switches and OP is complaining about IntelliSense! 
Round wheel was invented by some weakling who couldn't push the square one.
PS: I also find the first feature really annoying.
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: but when I was young I used to program in binary with mechanical switches
I was taught how to do that in 8th grade to reboot the PDP/11 we had at school. 
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: when I was young I used to program in binary with mechanical switches and OP is complaining about IntelliSense!
Yeah, yeah, yeah . When I started programming, do you know how ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing hard it was to find '1' bits of wooly mammoth hide? '0' bits were easy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: do you know how [mastadon] ing hard it was to find '1' bits of wooly mammoth hide?
Yeah, yeah, but do you know why we call them 'bits'? Because when I started programming we had 'trits'; one day I lost the '2' trit and then we had to live with 'bits'.
Mircea
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I thought those were the marketing digits: 0, 1, and twit.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Item:
1. Try {ESC}. A side effect of using this approach, if it works for you, will be that your left hand will forever be perched on the left side of your keyboard. The behavior becomes instinctive after a few successful dismisses of the "tooltip-like" message I think intellisense is sending you.
2. Don't use VS. Use SSMSE.
(Tommorrow -> the MS launch of the 64-bit VS ... grab yours and cross your fingers that both of these ugly bitches no longer there-in reside)
modified 7-Nov-21 18:47pm.
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RedDk wrote: 1. Try {ESC}. A side effect of using this approach, if it works for you, will be that you're left hand will forever be perched on the left side of your keyboard
I'm left-handed, which means that's my dominant hand on the keyboard. Having to hit the [Esc] key every half-a-dozen keystrokes at time introduces... cognitive dissonance. I am considering moving the Lotus Notes team to the #4 spot on my list, and putting the buffoons who implemented these two features in the #3 position.
The list? It's my list of development-teams-put-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes:
#1 is the entire Microsoft Windows Hardware group, based upon the space-time continuum-fracturing measures required to do driver installation.
#2 are the morons behind the Windows Installer (the *.msi crap).
Software Zen: delete this;
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More than half serious suggestion: Get a key mapper. Map something within reach of right ringo (scroll lock? depending on your keyboard layout) to ESC.
I know how to do it in my environment of choice, but I'm sure there are ways in Windows.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Maybe it helps if you complete your professinal profile 
[Edit]after 21 years membership[/Edit]
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Yes, there are two of me - my work self and my home self.
Software Zen: delete this;
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