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I like Resharper  (and its companion tools)
But I find it overpriced (£320 is too much) 
Nowadays most of the functionality I need is already in Visual Studio.
I have learned to work (and be productive) without Resharper.
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The good news for you is that WinForms and Win32 development are not going anywhere. Yeah, the Blazor is the new thing, but they will coexist peacefully. Someone who wants a small fast desktop application will rather use WinForms than Blazor hybrid. I know I would.
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I have loved Stooge humor for 45 years. That is a great pie-in-the-face compilation. Thanks for sharing. The 3 Stooges were amazingly talented and they really told stories that would make you laugh along the way. 
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All I gotta say is, I do mainly web development. Switched to VS Code and will never switch back... for web development and even console application development in C.
If I needed to do resource editing for a Win app, I could still see myself cranking up VS. It's just not so appealing to have install 30-50GB for an IDE to do that with. Not to mention the installer is slow and even though it's not built using web tech, it doesn't feel snappier than VS Code.
This is not to say I don't use the build tools. Still totally do. Just not so much the IDE these days.
Jeremy Falcon
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Microsoft Visual Studio comes a long way from Visual C++ 1.5 until Visual Studio 2022. There were many milestones on the way. The most important for me were jump to win32 (from win16) and from win32 to win64.
Since VS.NET appeared, I don't have any illusions about the future of this IDE. I was always surprised with Microsoft's perseverance with maintaining this piece of ... technology. Other toolset rose and fell, but this IDE remains ... alive.
The most productive Microsoft's strategy (try to create something great and kill anyone who has better alternative if the results were not good) works even nowadays. I think the most risky part of the Windows' development is not and IDE or tools, but the restricted SDK that replaces the current. The old as a mammoth common controls GUI model is changing to a kind of drug addicted. Moreover, Microsoft is not leading this rift. I'm afraid of the next possible Microsoft's step 
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Very interesting response, thanks.Quote: The old as a mammoth common controls GUI model is changing to a kind of drug addicted.
Not quite sure what this intriguing analogy means.
Is WPF or UWP (or Maui ?) any less "mammoth controls" because you describe them in XAML, rather drag-drop icons onto a Form ? I'd say Maui, which imho is still a flawed prototype, has few controls because it has long delayed development by a mis-led fresh team that took on far more than they could handle and got pressured into alpha/beta releases that were unusable.
The long lasting "common controls," as quirky as different zoo animals, often wrappers around COM fossils, are still here because they are useful and powerful.
But, yeah, an asteroid is coming that will destroy the current dinosaurs 
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Hello,
Let me try to explain my words.
When I say "common controls" I mean edit/combo/listbox/list/tree controls with event driven data flow. When I say common controls I mean Windows 3.X and its descendants. Windows Forms, like Delphi previously, use this model with a few extensions.
When I say drugs addicted design I mean a new approach when framework developers are too lazy or to dump to implement all the common controls and pass this work to the application developers. My favorite example - Android GUI. WPF and its next approach called UWP are another examples of this kind of technology.
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Bill, I understand your pain. I lost my right eye a couple of years ago and the left has a combination of myopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, and a cataract (surgery next month). This is in addition to the mental changes challenges excreta associated with getting ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing old. Pardon the vulgarity, but I haven't had my coffee yet.
BillWoodruff wrote: I often cannot edit something without scrolling the something "higher" because of pop-ups that won't get out of the way
I'm using VS2019 and I've turned a lot of that crap off. While I understand how it could be useful it clutters my visual field and the noise from the constant flickering is profoundly annoying. This is over and above wearing off the keytop of my [Esc] key dismissing the Clippy-esque "this looks inept; are you sure you're smart enough to do this?" prompts.
Good luck, and remember that soon enough the youngsters will have to maintain the crap we leave behind  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary, thanks for your concern and thoughts !
For all what may appear as "ranting" re VS, I still am a devotee  ... and, I doubt I'll have another language I "love" the way I do C# in this life.
It's obvious to me that VS has only partially caught up with being displayed on a 4k 15.6 inch laptop screen when Windows settings are high contrast, font scaling, and screen resolution setting at a lower dpi than 4k screen setting. But, what a complex set of confounding factors that is !
The bizarre behavior of auto-complete deserves a separate roasting, and I will post it under the title "maniac in the house"
Best wishes on your upcoming surgery; mine (both eyes, general anesthesia) has been postponed until the docs say "other problems" are resolved.
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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You're very welcome, and best of luck to you too. Us old gits (pun intended) have to stick together  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: the left has a combination of myopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, and a cataract (surgery next month)
FWIW - I had cataracts in both eyes and a small astigmatism - had them both done a few years ago and they installed super fancy multi-focal lenses.
Results have been spectacular! I no longer need vision correction at all. Near, far, reading... all good! At night, lights have a small corona but its no big deal.
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fgs1963 wrote: they installed super fancy multi-focal lenses
Good to know. I'm deciding the type of implant lens I want. The basic lens is covered by my insurance, but the other lens types have added cost. I don't know yet if my astigmatism can be corrected by the more capable lenses.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I had the same choice - 1) "free" basic lens and "you'll definitely need bifocals" OR 2) $2500 fancy lens and "you may not need glasses". I took the chance and couldn't be happier. Best $5000 I've ever spent.
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Can't say I disagree...
I am still using VS 2019 with the latest version.
I would like to upgrade to VS 2022 but it does not support .NET Framework 4.6 out of the box, which I am still using for my WPF development.
Why change when this framework just works well?
With .NET Core, it appears as if Microsoft tried to throw as much of the baby out with the bathwater as possible.
And of course, first with MVC and now with ASP.NET Core, Microsoft has now turned web development into a gargantuan mess. Web Forms was the epitome of web development and efficiency but as soon as the "purists" got their fangs into all of it, Web Forms was derided into oblivion. Why? To be replaced by a cacophony of stupid front-end tools under JavaScript with a host of frameworks and back-end tools made up of the same that have only added massive complexity and increased insecurity in such development.
Why do we now need to know dozens of tools when Web Forms was a fairly compartmentalized environment?
I say BS to those who seem to believe that these new web development environments are better than the original.
Prove it!
Microsoft has historically just gone and upended its own development environments with no concern for the consequences of what it was doing. One wonders if there was any real money to be made behind all of this.
VS 2022 appears to be landing space for all of the new tools, frameworks, and development environments that Microsoft would like all of us to use.
I installed it a while back with the hopes of doing some upgrades to my own projects but it completely messed up my VS 2019 installation forcing me to uninstall both VS 2022 and VS 2019 and then re-installing VS 2019 again to get a clean installation.
Based on recent research, this issue has yet to be fixed by Microsoft, but probably like Microsoft's Solitaire with its broken advertising processes, all of this is probably being done to force many of us to move up to the next version of VS.
So far I am resistant to doing so...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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