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13-Mar-17 0:25

I will not upgrade. Given the enormous problems that VisualStudio 2015 is giving me just at this moment, I don't ever want to see the next incarnation of that junk. Not that this a new issue. I think it was VS2008 where I had my first encounter with a totally freaked out XAML designer that could not find the assembly and namespace of its own ass in the dark.

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here

This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.

"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."

If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Mar-17 0:35

W∴ Balboos, GHB

13-Mar-17 0:35

OK - let's recast the question.

Will you be installing VS2017 or VB6 ? Choose!*

* Think of the original Ghost Busters if you like.

Ravings en masse^
"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

CDP180213-Mar-17 0:52

13-Mar-17 0:52

SharpDevelop. It's not from Mickeysoft and does not require you to register or activate it, it's faster and less of a resource hog, costs nothing, nobody wants you to sign up somewhere. True, it's more spartan, but I like it that way as long as the essentials are there.

modified 13-Mar-17 7:35am.

W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Mar-17 0:59

W∴ Balboos, GHB

13-Mar-17 0:59

I like it ~~rough~~ spartan.

Seriously now, thanks for the tip. No C++, but I might just manage. Ultimately, I don't use most of the obscure stuff, anyway. Open source? Probably means it plays well with others.

I'll be setting up a new super-box I just got and I think it may become a member.

Thanks (+).

Ravings en masse^
"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

CDP180213-Mar-17 1:28

13-Mar-17 1:28

It will take a little getting used to, but then it's mostly ok. I have set up my own solution with about 50 projects in the folder and everything works and compiles just fine now. The last remaining issue is that I could not debug into my numerous web services up to now, but maybe I have to connect to their processes manually, as it used to be before Visual studio 2005.

CDP180213-Mar-17 2:41

13-Mar-17 2:41

W∴ Balboos wrote:
No C++, but I might just manage.

Look what I found on their website:

Quote:
In the Source Code Download: VC++ project support

Looks like that will come as well some time.

Nelek13-Mar-17 1:19

Nelek

13-Mar-17 1:19

Then it should be included in Free Tools Discussion Boards[^], don't you think?

M.D.V.

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CDP180213-Mar-17 1:34

13-Mar-17 1:34

Ok. It's been around for at least ten years. I would have expected it to be known more widely

Nelek13-Mar-17 2:32

Nelek

13-Mar-17 2:32

So I thought, but it seems we were wrong.

It is a nice tool, I think it deserves to be there. And since it was your shot, it should be your pleasure to post it Wink | ;)

M.D.V.

Brady Kelly14-Mar-17 0:59

Brady Kelly

14-Mar-17 0:59

That designer not finding the namespace is still there, but I have logged it for 2017 and it's been triaged to "Under Investigation". I wonder if anyone bothered logging it before?

Immanentize the Eschaton!

CDP180214-Mar-17 1:37

14-Mar-17 1:37

I had an assembly which merrily mixed frontend and backend code. I had to put some application logic inbetween (something the original author of the code also never heard about), so I split the whole assembly in two. Except for renaming one single namespace, that was merely a matter of copying files from one project to another. All hell broke lose when I tried to compile the part with the WPF dialogs. It could not find hundreds of objects, most still in the same assembly and workspace as before. A second assembly which was built by the same hero depended on the code and now also does not compile anymore.

Now I have found a solution. Throw everything that uses XAML out of the project. Clean the solution and recompile your project. Now you should only have reasonable errors, like missing classes from the files you have just thrown out of the project. Then add the excluded files again, one by one, cleaning the solution and recompiling every time. If the chaos comes back in the middle of the way, it's back to square one. Congratulations if you have included all files again and it's still ok.

There was not a single error in the first assembly. It should just have compiled as it was, but I had to go through this entire procedure to get it working again. And now I have to do the same for the second assembly that depended on it.

Let Mickeysoft investigate as much as they want. Perhaps I will take a look at their bugware when they notice something.

One Issue

cjb11012-Mar-17 21:51

cjb110

12-Mar-17 21:51

As soon as I overcome the complete and utter lack of space on the machine...

Zhivko Kabaivanov12-Mar-17 23:31

Zhivko Kabaivanov

12-Mar-17 23:31

For that reason I had to reinstall my PC.

KarstenK13-Mar-17 0:32

KarstenK

13-Mar-17 0:32

What about a spring clean. I use CCleaner. It just works! Java | [Coffee]

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

Bryian Tan13-Mar-17 2:50

Bryian Tan

13-Mar-17 2:50

it did take lots of disk spaces, I didn't select all the options during installation, and it took about 42GB of disk spaces.

Bryian Tan

Jalapeno Bob13-Mar-17 4:33

Jalapeno Bob

13-Mar-17 4:33

Or to put it another way: until you get a new machine or hell freezes over (whichever happens first!) Big Grin | :-D

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