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In an earlier post[^] by OriginalGriff, he noted a "feature" of VS2nnn "by mistake" and noted about this being a way to make boilerplates in VS.
You can do this by creating a basic function with a Try/Catch, copy it, paste it into the VS toolbox, rename it accordingly (I use 00_NewFunctTryCatch to cause it to show at the top of the list of Boilerplates, as you noted) then assign a keyboard shortcut, and off ya go!
I also have 00_TryCatch which only puts in a try catch.
Now, if you *REALLY* wanna beef up your entire computer, go get QuicKeys 3.0 for Windows at Startly.com[^]
(NOTE: I have no connection to this biz, other than using their products.)
I've used QuicKeys for 23+ of my programming & daily computer use years, both Mac & Windows. QuicKeys works in Win7; haven't tried Win8, though. Has a 30-day trial period.
Honest, not trying to "sell" it (wherein I get something in return), just highly passioned toward tools that not only make programming/computing life easier, but tools on my system that make it ROCK!
Best damned macro/automation/keyboard shortcut tool/app there ever was and is.
Example #1: Type Shift-Ctrl-T and a "Try/Catch" is inserted (VS2nnn-specific shortcut)
Example #2: Type Ctrl-[ and [] is inserted with the cursor then moved back between them so I can start typing the table or column name [SQL Mgmt Studio-specific]
Example #3: I had to change 6,500+ records through an archaic GUI, having no access to the SQL database. Took me10 minutes to setup a "repeat" QuicKeys sequence (7 minutes testing/refining it...), fired it up, went on a 15 minute break, came back and all the records were updated. Saved about 2 hours of flustering manual repetitive keyboard data entry.
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Auto Hot Key[^]. Same idea. For Free. Works great.
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- Mitchell Kapor
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Yeah, I tried Auto Hot Key.
I prefer QKeys.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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A good review of QuicKeys, thanks !
I note on their site there is no "official" mention of it working in Win 7, or Win 8; issues using it in Win 7 are discussed on their user forum: [^].
US $60 for a utility is pricey ... for me.
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2014/02/03/windows-xp-resists-death-sentence/[^]
XP rises slightly (not significant, probably just sampling)
But...the market share is interesting:
Windows 7 47.49%
XP 29.23%
8 6.63%
8.1 3.95%
Vista 3.3%
And Win 7 was at 25% at the same stage in it's release as Win8 is now...bodes well for Windows 9 I guess.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Now this[^] is interesting statistics.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Quote: Food Statistics > Pork consumption per capita (most recent) by country
Quote: DEFINITION: Measures taken in 1997 and based on carcass weight. Selected Nations only.
I laughed 
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From the same source Go Merica![^]
speramus in juniperus
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I believe the numbers for Denmark is to low.
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Not sure about accuracy but some cool indicators, not sure about correlation either, but pretty fair layout of info. Thanks.
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After seeing Win 8-8.1 you excepted something else?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I didn't, but there are some evangelists here who would like to believe otherwise... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was myself a big believer of the Microsoft up-down (one version good - one bad), but 8.1 somehow broke me, but maybe it's not a new version after all and I only have to wait...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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OriginalGriff wrote: evangelists here who would like to believe otherwise...
I believe that Win 8.1 is reasonably good.
I don't consider myself being an evangelist, but as far as I can recall there was more than a 1 year timeframe between Vista and 7.
Apart from that I navigate through most of the menus with the keyboard ([Win]+[E] to get to the Explorer, [Win]+[L] to lock the computer) and therefore I am not limited in doing what I need to.
The only big improvement I can see (and which is still my dream) that you could move the App-Windows around like normal Windows, on a full-screen "Desktop" (which possibliy could be a user-chosen image). Apart from that I am satisfied with the full-screen start menu home.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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I spent several hours yesterday installing Windows 8.1 and drivers, setting up every setting I found...
only to have it do a BSOD on me, run System Restore without letting me pick the restore point, and promptly undo every single application I installed and every setting I changed. 
I think it was the wireless driver which came with the wireless card, must've not been compatible. 
Windows 8.1 experience: kill it with fire.
Although I did find the desktop app. Now I just need to find a hacky program to restore the Start menu so I don't get what I'm typing blocked out by a full-screen search box. 
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SortaCore wrote: I think it was the wireless driver which came with the wireless card, must've not been compatible.
Not really MS fault if you install a non-compatible driver, isn't it?
SortaCore wrote: only to have it do a BSOD on me, run System Restore without letting me pick the restore point, and promptly undo every single application I installed and every setting I changed.
Backup. You need a backup.
SortaCore wrote: Although I did find the desktop app. Now I just need to find a hacky program to restore the Start menu so I don't get what I'm typing blocked out by a full-screen search box.
I still don't get why this bothers people. The behavior stays the same, it is only displayed in a different way?
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Not really MS fault if you install a non-compatible driver, isn't it?
It is MS' fault, because I doubt the motherboard distributor (being the motherboard targets Windows 7+ only) would write a driver that's not compatible. So MS made something incompatible between 7 and 8.1.
Less likely, the driver installer didn't detect an incompatible OS, so was coded in a faulty manner. But MS' fancy Windows 8.1 should really have a bit of a more sophisticated response than a BSOD, and should detect invalid drivers on install. I'm not blaming MS for having a fault, just for handling it in an awful way.
Marco Bertschi wrote: Backup. You need a backup.
No one creates a backup mid-way through an computer setup. Before and after, yes, but not half-way through it, since you'll lose your place amongst the long list of installs.
And I don't see why it reset my Control Panel-based settings when it clearly told me no settings would be deleted - I thought it would use the good driver config like Windows XP's Last Known Good Configuration idea, not freak out and wipe everything.
Marco Bertschi wrote: still don't get why this bothers people. The behavior stays the same, it is only displayed in a different way?
The display forces a physical disconnection from what you were looking at, and if you were just about to type something, it's disorientating. It's like you looking at a screen and when you press a key someone slams a opaque plastic screen in the way, so you can only see a tiny part of it.
When you're focused on your work having it separated from you like that throws you off. Not to mention half the time you're looking at what you're searching for (i.e. code) and typing something related, so it doesn't help to not be able to see it.
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SortaCore wrote: Now I just need to find a hacky program to restore the Start menu
ClassicShell[^] does it for me on my W8 ultrabook. I'm not gonna touch 8.1 with a 10 foot pole, for various reasons. And if W8 updates keep resetting my power and energy settings like they did in the past, I'm gonna kill W8 entirely! 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Yep - I'm using Classic Shell for the start menu, AutoHotkey script for "backspace means up, not previous view" in Explorer, and UXTheme so I can have a dark theme with light text.
And I installed Start++ so I can use run programs with elevated priviledges, so instead of "regedit", I do "sudo regedit".
Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to scrap the ribbon interface and go back to menus in Windows File Explorer, though, and I hate oversized GUIs.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: you excepted something else?
I suspect you meant “you expected...”?
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The alternative would be that he meant "accepted" - well, in the context of W8/W8.1? Nah, not likely! I guess you have it right. 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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When 8.1 was released
Microsoft announced that it will be doing continuous roll outs from now on.
Windows 9 is the end goal of windows 8 - it will not have the desktop that everyone is in love with.
So if you want to be part of the future.
I suggest you start learning windows 8.
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Four legs good.
Two legs better.
It's the future.
Of course, I switched to Linux at home five years ago, and now laugh a lot more at Windows. Although I keep a tame metal machine for homework on days away from the office.
As this was going to be obsolete in April(XP) I installed a 7 image on the old box, found that it works okay, and bought a salvaged license from Germany on Amazon.
It took so long to arrive(I thought) that I bought 8.1 for a bigger box pro-temp. It installed easily, ran nicely and was defo a bit phreaky. The apps from the disk broke down straight away, but with a forced update 20 of them were replaced(why not auto?) and work now.
Still I haven't used it since. I'm going to sysprep the box and sell it as a going concern.
Windows 7 license? Turned out the courier put the Amazon box in my garage. On top of a pile of opened Amazon boxes.
But I found it so all is well. 
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This is how I install windows 8
...
I put in the disc and walk away.
no unattended install.
no sysprep.
If you put any thought into a windows 8 install - you are doing it wrong
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Yeah. No sysprep. Great if you want to give some random bozo access to your accounts and identity after you sell the computer.
Now WTF didn't I think of that?
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