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Greg Utas wrote: What's with VS2017, VS2019, and VS2022?
VS is mostly a continuing release now with minor feature/bug fix updates a few times/year. As minor updates they're not allowed to break back compatibility, apis, data formats, etc. Any breaking changes (along with the icon updates that break some people's minds) are held off until the next named release.
Having finally completed refactoring every part of the code base to build as 64bit is probably the biggest breaking change (to every VS plugin developer) in 2022.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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October 20th may be the Windows 11 day Just in time for the other ghoulies at Halloween?
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The question-and-answer site Quora may have strayed into a stereotype, when a user asked the loaded question, “Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?” I guess it's shocking for so many of you to find out you're mythical?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?”
I've been working as a developer for longer than 35-40 years, and have no plans to quit yet.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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With the workplaces I'm getting, it was dead when I was 27.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I've been doing it for money since 1980 (age 24). I've successfully managed to avoid management jobs for the entire time.
I've forgotten more stuff than most people know right now. One lady at work calls me "Mr. Know-It-All" because when she asks a question about coding, I have the answer.
I'm going to retire - as a programmer - when I turn 67 (two years).
".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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how was it...?
Who can, code. Who can't, write articles or go in management?
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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I found the actual coding part to be boring and uninteresting after 3 years.
Analyzing the problem and laying out a solution, on the other hand, keeps my interest.
I guess I am an old fashioned Systems Analyst who lays out the solution for a programmer to code.
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Vivi Chellappa wrote: I found the actual coding part to be boring and uninteresting after 3 years.
Vivi Chellappa wrote: I am an old fashioned Systems Analyst who lays out the solution for a programmer to code.
I feel sorry for you. It sounds like you're in one of those micro-regimented industries with narrowly-defined roles, and the worker drones never step outside their bounds.
There are countless old-school job roles I've taken on in my 40 year career: system analyst, system architect, programmer, programmer analyst, system administrator, etc. These names have obscured the central fact of my professional existence. I create software to solve problems for my customers. I've had projects where I spent months designing a solution and the only code written for it were throwaway prototypes to test essential bits of the approach. Other projects have started with a request or a question in the morning and were delivered after lunch, complete with an installer and documentation.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you're mythical?
Hmm. I don't do rubber duck debugging, I do greyhound debugging and talk to my dogs. They are named Bacchus (the Greek/Roman god of, er, whine[*]) and Hera (Zeus' wife, aka 'Boss Lady' and the leader of our pack of two).
[*] Bacchus doesn't bark, he only whines. My wife loves mythology and picked his name before we ever even met him or knew about his lack of a bark. He does GSOD (Greyhound Scream Of Death) occasionally, and yes GSOD really is a thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's a dead-end in the "corporate" world. Chances are, "higher management" has been there for years and are still working off concepts (like "impact" printers) that are 20 years old.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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We aren't mythical, we're LEGENDARY!
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Adding to my earlier comment, what is meant by "dead-end job"?
If your goal is to become a C-level executive, it is unlikely that you'll get there via any sort of engineering position (unless you start your own company).
If your goal is to support yourself and your family while working in an interesting and challenging position, then I can say that software development may be for you.
In the last 40 years of professional software development, I have been unemployed for less than 6 months. I can't say that it was always interesting, but it was definitely challenging.
YMMV
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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.NET Framework and Windows Forms were designed and built in a completely different world from today – back when CRT monitors still largely maxed out at 1024×768, and “Microsoft Sans Serif” was the default font on Windows. Fonts are the new icons
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And that article references a CP article as something they are using to test. Cool.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Continuing their commitment to make Windows 11 “the best Windows ever for gaming” Microsoft has released its Game Development Kit on GitHub. Don't just crush that candy, write the code to crush the candy
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Thanks for this - I was just about to buy my first ever XBox, but now I'll wait
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Firmware security tool flaws affect as many as 30M desktops, laptops, and tablets. It's not just support that they'll assist
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Firmware security
So far, choose one. Firmware programmers are not yet used to think about security.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Without the frisbee's rounded edges, beer mats flip onto their side with a backspin. All the latest in beer-reviewed research
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 Well, as the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw recently put it
“Some of the best ideas come over a couple of beers”.
Gawd. An aussie would say that.. 
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C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling that produces small, self-contained, and native executables out of the box. Why has it taken so long for someone to make this reference?
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You are messing the timestamps again Kent  
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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NASA has been troubleshooting a computer error on the Hubble Space Telescope for 12 days. "Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
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I'm not saying it's aliens, but...
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