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It's hard to explain, but I like the fact that it's just less buggy than 2012, which is just less buggy than 2010. And every update for 2010, 2012 and 2013 reduces the buggy-ness of the whole thing. Any time you have to go back and use an older version, you will encounter all sorts of random little bugs which aren't present in the current version, and it's not until I have to do that that I really start to appreciate how good the current version is.
There was an episode of Top Gear where they were explaining the difference between the Aston Martin DB-9 and the DBS, and discussing why the DBS costs so much more despite being essentially the same car. The way they explained it was that despite being essentially the same, the DBS has all sorts of tiny little tweaks the DB-9 doesn't have. Any one of those tweaks on it's own seems insignificant but when you combine them all together, the DBS is significantly better.
That's how I feel about every new version of Visual Studio these days.
Here's the Top Gear link - http://youtu.be/TzmyOT1kcfc[^]
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The "profile" feature is both annoying and useful. If you sign in you can save/change your "profile"; then if you login on another system, your profile settings will be applied for the session. it's annoying because logging in on another machine invalidates every other system, so if I start it on my laptop, the copy on my desktop will freak out- basically it won't let me use both at once, which makes perfect sense. I worked around this by instead using Visual Studio 2015 on my laptop.
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The fact that I can install ReSharper on top of it.
ken@kasajian.com / www.kasajian.com
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A lot of good functionality actually,and some of these for me i like is the peek difinition and reference counting.
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An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer — you're assigned to hell."
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of accommodations and starts designing and building improvements.
After a while, they’ve got air-conditioning and flush toilets, escalators, elevators and so on ... and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day, God calls Satan on the telephone.
"So, how's it going down there in hell?" God says.
"Hey, things are going great. We've got air-conditioning and flush toilets and escalators. There's no telling what our engineer is going to come up with next!" Satan says.
"What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake — he should have never gotten down there. Send him back immediately!" God says.
"No way! I like having an engineer on the staff — I'm keeping him!" Satan says.
"Send him back up here or I'll sue!" God says.
Satan laughs uproariously and answers:
"Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?"
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Oldie but goodie.
/ravi
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I've been told once that God himself is an engineer.
Because only an engineer could think of bringing a hose reserved for waste disposal in the middle of an area dedicated to entertainment.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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I didn't get that a first... Then my mind switched to dirty mode
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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It takes time to become religious
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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phil.o wrote: Because only an engineer could think of bringing a hose reserved for waste disposal in the middle of an area dedicated to entertainment.
Better version: God himself is a civil engineer. Because only a civil engineer could think of putting a playground inside a sewage processing plant.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I don't know what god may have thought, but I get a very good picture of what you think about.
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."
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Heh heh. I like how you think too.
+1
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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.AK.
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Just what was going through the mind of the product manager or whatever that though a Windows Service needed a visual designer? The only thing you can use it for, standard, is to add an installer, and that should rather simply be a class template, or at worst, have it's own designer. But to add a service class to a project, and be faced with a large, grey expanse that is virtually useless strikes me as more hardcode retarded than simply idiotic.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Was probably that guy who came up with the "Visual ..." term..
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manchanx wrote: probably that guy who came up with the "Visual ..." term..
That's a legacy name: it started with "Visual C++" at version 1 in 1993 to differentiate it from the existing Microsoft C++ (and the Borland Turbo C++) to indicate that it was a "complete system" which allowed you to design and develop the whole product from the same environment.
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Yes, I just remembered Visual Basic was in 1991 - but I do try to forget that, and the huge stack of floppies it came on...
But it was Visual C++ that become Visual Studio, and VB was bolted in later.
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 7-Mar-15 10:38am.
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Wow! Pretty good memory for an old sheep rustler!
My first 'Visual' product was Visual C++ v1.52 (which I still have) but I have no idea what year that was. I was using Turbo Pascal at the time - a far superior product - but that disappeared after the Visual garbage crushed it with louder marketing.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I paid my own money for V1.0 and V2.0 of Visual C++ (the company was too mean to buy it for me) and I still remember writing (and worse signing) the cheques!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ouch!! They were as overpriced then as now!
Will Rogers never met me.
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It was a serious number of beer vouchers in those days!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My first 'Visual' product was a ridiculously early version of VB, maybe VB2. I started real life, for money, coding with VB4. It was a hard sell - I felt C++ coded in text only was more 'honest' - doing everything explicitly, yourself.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'm actually kinda glad I no longer code for a living. I've never mastered (or liked) the Visual products, or the drag and drop approach to programming. I started coding microcode for embedded processors and writing system stuff in Assembly, on paper, and never grew out of the habit of analyzing the crap out of every line to eliminate cycles and wasted bytes. And just when Turbo Pascal finally adopted OOP and made human-readable and maintainable code practical, along comes MS and Visual C(rap)++.
Now I can just piddle along with the VS tools and not care - it's a hobby, not something I have to be proud of and hope someone will pay me for doing.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, the WPF designer being one of the most useless pieces of crap MS has ever kept alive this long in their Visual range, nicely takes the Visual aspect out of WPF and lets you hand code all your own XAML. And, IMO, the framework is simply outstanding.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'll have to find a reason to look into that, Brady!
Will Rogers never met me.
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