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Created an account eight days ago to ask for some advice on a UWP issue I'm facing. Turns out, you cannot post a question until your account has been verified. Posted on the account verification thread, took them five days (I'm serious) to respond.
So I think, okay at least I can post my question now. Who better to ask a question about UWP than the guys who "made" it. Surprise (not really), I still can't post a question. 
And I don't think they're (MS) even working on UWP. When was the last time you caught a news about it?
I've been working on it for more than a year now and it has been uncomfortably quiet.
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It's named "Social" MSDN, so you will not spend all your time on the forum, and socialize in real life instead 
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you out the hard way
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It is useless. All you get are a bunch of wannabee muppets telling you some basic, and well known, procedure on Windows which is irrelevant to your problem.
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Exactly, the website is so tacky and slow. If you have commented multiple times on a thread, good luck navigating to a particular comment.
CP is waaayyy better.
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GKP1992 wrote: Created an account eight days ago [...] took them five days (I'm serious) to respond
I never explicitly had to create an account for "that" site. I just used the Hotmail account I've had since the mid-90s and never had to wait to post.
That said...yeah, the value you'll get out of that site is questionable at best.
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I updated VS to the latest 15.8.1 and now every time I try and see the differences in a file since the last Git commit the entire IDE hangs and I need to kill the process and restart. It's totally and utterly locked up.
Progress. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The whole IDE is slower than hell, especially when it's not been used in a while takes forever to "wake" up!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Hmm, I've had no problems and it fixed three bugs I reported.
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I have successfully updated to VS2017 15.8.1, *BUT* have not noticed that it's getting slow on start and either have not encountered any bugs. Just for my interest, what particular programming language or framework in VS2017 you're currently using so that it hangs ? 
The best solution of this problem, in this particular case, is to completely uninstall VS2017, download the offline installer image, and then perform a clean re-install:
vs_enterprise.exe --layout "C:\Visual Studio 2017" --lang en-US
Specifically, for the recent past time, I've used VS2017 updated to 15.8.1 to create projects in various languages and frameworks including C++, C#, Python, *BUT* have not encountered the problem listed.
And also, if VS2017 is running slow at startup, try disabling some of its components, for example: output window.
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Arthur V. Ratz wrote: download the offline installer image, and then perform a clean re-install:
Where? I searched it but nothing. Then I found a couple of sites telling the community version has no offline installer, only the downloader.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: Where? I searched it but nothing. Then I found a couple of sites telling the community version has no offline installer, only the downloader.
1. Download regular Visual Studio 2017 installer: Visual Studio 2017 - Visual Studio[^]
2. Use the following command in CMD or PowerShell to create an offline distribution image on your local hard drive:
vs_enterprise.exe --layout "C:\Visual Studio 2017" --lang en-US
After that all required files are downloaded and copied to C:\Visual Studio 2017 folder location.
After the listed above command finishes its execution you can run vs_enterprise.exe application located at C:\Visual Studio 2017 to perform a clean offline installation of Visual Studio 2017.
Here's an article: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/visual-studio-2017-installation-using-offline-installer/[^]
Isn't that so simple ?
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I'll try it.
I don't want to increase my backup in 15 Gb due to VS and downloading it each time I restore is a PITA too.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: I don't want to increase my backup in 15 Gb due to VS and downloading it each time I restore is a PITA too.
1. What kind of backup do you actually mean ?
2. After you've downloaded it once, just burn it to BD-R or flash drive and use it next time without downloading it.
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1) Back up of the system partition
2) That's what I will try, but in a secondary HDD
I wanted to do it... but you have the enterprise version. Do you know if it works with the community version too?
[Edit_01] Nevermind... I will try it right now.
[Edit_02] It is working as described... downloading the packages in progress
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 24-Aug-18 12:17pm.
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Quote: I wanted to do it... but you have the enterprise version. Do you know if it works with the community version too?
Probably it will work with all VS2017 editions, *BUT*, anyway, just give it a try.
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I edited previous message to avoid getting this thread very long.
It works, right now is downloading the packages.
Thanks
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Good for you. Just wait until it has downloaded everything and returned from vs_community.exe or vs_enterprise.exe application, and will have it done.
Also, just for my own interest, reply to this post if you could have it done successfully.
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Uninstalled VS from my PC and switched to VS code. Lucky I have the option.
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Please wait while VS finishes background processes.
What process? I just opened you VS. What are you doing behind my back? Hanging around with dreaded eclipse?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Last week, I just read in Reddit C++ subforum that after the update, VC++ fails to compile some open-source libraries. Not sure if they are going to fix that since VS2019 work has commenced.
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Not only that...
Now I have to clean and rebuild my project before I can publish the asp.net project to a folder.
15.8.0 wasn't bug free either. Within 24 hours 15.8.1 was released.
I hope 15.8.2 is more stable but after two instable versions I have doubts (whilst I am a M$ VS fan boy....).
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