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It was fine yesterday, but today it just puts up the "Waiting for a background operation to complete..." message until I kill it via the Task Manager. 
I've even allowed it an hour or more. Why can't there be a "Don't wait for the background operation, kill it" button I could press?
Rebooting hasn't helped.
Frequent listeners will recall that I don't use VS unless I really need to. This is the kind of crap that leads me to distrust it.
VS 2010 is OK, of course, but will it load my projects? (No, it won't.)
Edit: I decided to try double-clicking a solution file in the Explorer and that got it working again. For now. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
modified 3-Jul-14 17:15pm.
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Had the same a lot recently, mostly in XAML.
As soon as it puts up a UI and blocks the UI it is not a background operation. The complete dialog should be banned from the product, and those operations should be done in the background. Without blocking input - because for most of them, we really don't give a flying elephant whether they'll complete. It's often blocking the input because it is waiting for a background-compile to finish, so it can underline that keyword that you haven't finished typing yet because the damn IDE blocks the input with that dialog.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: waiting for a background-compile to finish
Yeah, but it's not even there yet -- the program hasn't even opened -- I have this message (a dialog would have a Cancel button) on top of the splash screen!
Eddy Vluggen wrote: haven't finished typing yet because the damn IDE blocks the input with that
dialog
Indeed, even worse in VBA. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Yeah, i dont know why, my PC is core i7 with 16gb of RAM but when using VS2012, all the process is slower than VS2010, so i really hate it
In code we trust !
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Been there so many times. I have no clue why they force the user to follow them painfully. Windows updates screen is an eternal enemy for me.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Waiting for a background operation to complete..."
This should have been coded by a trainee software developer at Microsoft and QA might not have had enough time to go through it and the product got released RTM.
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VS2013 has that dialog, although it says 'required' instead of 'background', which makes a little more sense. My guess is that the person who coded that dialog didn't really grasp the 'background operation' concept. I also don't see the dialog as often as I did with VS2012 (where pretty much any action would cause it to pop up).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Apparently, Happy software developers solve problems better[^]
At least they used the correct number of developers for the test:
Quote: We report a study with 42 participants to investigate the relationship between the affective states, creativity, and analytical problem-solving skills of software developers. The results offer support for the claim that happy developers are indeed better problem solvers in terms of their analytical abilities.
TTFN - Kent
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..lots of words to explain how they proved the open door to be open. And yes, asking whether someone is happy is a form of "measuring" and totoally non-subjective.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The boss was there while they 'measured' the happiness of the developers?
No doubt a very subjective test...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Stumbled across a couple of videos where they have put video cameras down thousands of feet into oil and gas wells.
I was surprised at actually how much detail can be seen, and they can see all the different problems and general characters of the wells. You can see the differnt perforations feeding in the oil/gas/water, failed corroded casings, dropped tools etc. etc.
Certainly not what I was expecting to see, I expected darkness...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDrheWDhGw[^]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5diKdBZ8EOI[^]
Don't think a GoPro would survive at these depths!
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Cool videos
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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I wonder what current hardware could do. There are bad VHS tracking artifacts on that of the sort I haven't seen since my parents bought a better VCR in the early 90s...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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...and found this: Daydreams[^]
Tickled my funny bone - but how true, how true... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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And which were you seeking?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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"The databits are flexed through the collectimizer, which strips the message elements into flow gate arrays"
Scott Adams explaining how technical people respond to questions. I think it's from "Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons" but I can't find my copy.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Was it a strip on the site? The only result for "collectimizer" was this one[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Don't know yet - I haven't found it!
Various searches on the site have failed so far...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Why, oh why, oh why...
... Do I not follow my own advice and use Google first?
A very quick Google image search found it first time! 
http://www.r21c.com/Images/AE070370050061.jpg[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I read it every night before going to sleep and yet I didn't know this one
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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'scuse me, could you say that again, please? I was thinking about something else... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Indeed!
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Reluctantly I posted a C# question in the C# forum. I wonder if there is an answer to be found? To be honest, I believe that if I get anything it will be merely links to the LINQ answer which I specifically asked not to receive.
yes, this is a blatant promotion for a programming question I asked in the C# forum. Down vote at will : )
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