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raddevus17-Jul-18 12:41

17-Jul-18 12:41

dandy72 wrote:
Regions are purely an editor thing.

Just referencing the time period via the .NET versions.
I couldn't remember what Studio was called before they called it Visual Studio YYYY.
I remember Visual C++. I remember Visual InterDev. I remember Visual Studio 2000. I think it may have been called Visual.NET or Visual Studio.NET or some such.

dandy7217-Jul-18 14:57

17-Jul-18 14:57

raddevus wrote:
Just referencing the time period via the .NET versions

The actual VS names would've been the better reference if you were trying to put things into age perspective: .NET 1.0 shipped with VS 2002, and 1.1 shipped with VS 2003.

I'm looking at the installers right now in my archives folder.

PIEBALDconsult17-Jul-18 17:26

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17-Jul-18 17:26

VisualStudio.net 2002 was what I first used for C#.

Mike Hankey17-Jul-18 9:55

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17-Jul-18 9:55

It isn't really a method until it hits the 2K line mark, anything less is barely worth commenting. Smile | :)

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz17-Jul-18 19:06

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17-Jul-18 19:06

Indeed. Why'd it take you so long to realize that?

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Marc Clifton18-Jul-18 1:10

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18-Jul-18 1:10

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Why'd it take you so long to realize that?

While I don't use regions, I ended up cleaning up some code that did, and had this insightful realization. Most of my career I've only had to undo the damage of my own coding style. Dealing with other people's code, well, that takes "refactoring" to a whole new level -- I believe the historical term was "rewrite" before it fell out of vogue. Wink | ;)

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dandy7219-Jul-18 6:33

Microsoft Marketing Miss: Chrome v Edge

19-Jul-18 6:33

Marc Clifton wrote:
Dealing with other people's code, well, that takes "refactoring" to a whole new level -- I believe the historical term was "rewrite" before it fell out of vogue.

When people do it to my code, it's "refactoring". When I do it to other people's code, it's "fixing".

At least that's what I tell myself.

raddevus17-Jul-18 7:32

17-Jul-18 7:32

I was just using Edge (DISCLAIMER: it had popped up earlier for one of the links I clicked -- normally use Chrome.)

I went to search some text in an MSDN article about the author, Ted Neward.
His sig line says, polytechnology consultant so I highlighted and right-clicked because I wanted to see how proliferate that terminology is across the web.

Microsoft Marketing Miss
Microsoft does NOT provide a menu item [Search Bing for "polytechnology consultant"]
Instead, I have to copy the text and go to a search engine etc.
Chrome offers => [Search Google for "polytechnology consultant"]

I'm Patenting This Technology
I'm writing up the patent now, so Microsoft-people, please contact me and I'll sell you this idea for $2 Billion USD or 34 bitcoin. Laugh | :laugh:

Update/Edit
Firefox has the [Search Google for "polytechnology consultant"] also.
Interesting. Not sure why Microsoft hasn't shown up to hire me yet. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

modified 17-Jul-18 13:42pm.

ZurdoDev17-Jul-18 7:36

ZurdoDev

17-Jul-18 7:36

raddevus wrote:
Microsoft does NOT provide a menu item [Search Bing for "polytechnology consultant"]

Because they would get sued for monopolizing. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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raddevus17-Jul-18 7:38

17-Jul-18 7:38

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
Because they would get sued

Plus, once my patent goes into effect... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

OriginalGriff17-Jul-18 8:02

OriginalGriff

17-Jul-18 8:02

raddevus wrote:
Microsoft does NOT provide a menu item [Search Bing for "polytechnology consultant"]

Well, no - they know that nobody will ever voluntarily use it... Laugh | :laugh:

By the way ... if you set your default search engine to Bong, or Yahoo!, or even Ask then Chrome changes the context menu appropriately - it doesn't force you to use Bong, unlike Cortana.

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Rick York17-Jul-18 10:35

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17-Jul-18 10:35

It annoys to no end that I can not uninstall Cortana.

OriginalGriff17-Jul-18 11:14

OriginalGriff

17-Jul-18 11:14

I just ignore it. But then I accidently use it, click the wrong thing and it fires up Edge, summons Bong, and gives me a bunch of useless results I didn't want or mean to ask it for...

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dandy7217-Jul-18 8:24

17-Jul-18 8:24

I could've sworn the very thing you're describing has just been added to Edge in a recent Insider builds. Although I have it installed, I can't be arsed to look it up right now...

raddevus17-Jul-18 8:44

17-Jul-18 8:44

dandy72 wrote:
I could've sworn the very thing you're describing has just been added to Edge in a recent Insider builds

Interesting. We are a few revisions behind on work computer so maybe it doesn't show there for that reason too.

Also, I'll be looking for my royalty check from MS. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

dandy7217-Jul-18 10:51

17-Jul-18 10:51

Don't confuse Insider builds with builds such as 1803.

Insider versions are essentially betas for vNext, and no-one in his right mind ought to run these on "work computers".

raddevus17-Jul-18 12:39

17-Jul-18 12:39

dandy72 wrote:
Don't confuse Insider builds with builds such as 1803.

dandy72 wrote:
no-one in his right mind ought to run these on "work computers"

That makes sense and a good point.

Matthew Dennis17-Jul-18 8:56

Matthew Dennis

17-Jul-18 8:56

Yes, highlighting something and right clicking will bring up a menu that includes "Ask Cortana about …"

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

raddevus17-Jul-18 9:01

17-Jul-18 9:01

Matthew Dennis wrote:
will bring up a menu that includes "Ask Cortana about …"

Oh, okay, I am 100% blind to cortana. Never use it. Didn't even notice that.
So they are trying to force cortana on me. Now that's the MS I know. I knew they should be forcing something or other on me. They've obviously given up on Bing and now it is this cortana thing that I need to be intent on ignoring. Laugh | :laugh:

Matthew Dennis17-Jul-18 9:02

Matthew Dennis

17-Jul-18 9:02

Cortana just relays the request to Bing.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

dandy7217-Jul-18 10:48

17-Jul-18 10:48

So in your original message, you're lamenting the fact that Edge doesn't have the lookup functionality that Chrome offers as a built-in feature. Turns out you can do it in Edge (via Cortana), but that's "being forced" on you?

Did I get this right?

raddevus17-Jul-18 12:36