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HELICOPTER - a craft that hovers. Anag: TRIPLE ECHO
I work in communications with firefighting aircraft. Certain fixed-wing pilots refer to a heli as "50,000 components flying in close formation".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You are up tomorrow! 
When I had my first helicopter lesson, the instructor started off with "Right, let's turn some money into noise!" 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Have you got a licence Paul ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, I realized how expensive and time-consuming a hobby it is, and stopped before I took the final test.
It's fun though! If you haven't tried it, check with your local airport - most have a small flight school that'll do a one-hour introductory lesson for the price of a good meal out for two. Don't blame me if you get addicted though! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I tried that some years ago on fixed wing aircraft. But when I calculated how much it would code to get my licence I decided to feed the family instead.
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Whoever said "the best things in life are free" was talking out his a$$ ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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No chance of me getting addicted, despite the fact my background is Aircraft engineering ( Concorde et al ) I don't like flying unless there is no alternative
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I dedicate this message to "Stooge" Moe Howard, pie-thrower extrordinaire: [^]
fyi: I use VS/64.17.4.4 now. Couldn't live without it, and ReSharper. I am programming only in WinForms.
I speak of what I experience with VS in the last few years that, now, creates the current visual "pies in the face." I speak of both now, when I have visual impairment (awaiting surgical correction), and have to use Windows' "High Contrast" mode ... and, then, when I had no visual impairment.
1) background check: the first versions of VS used SilverLight for the IDE/editor; there were all kinds of visual glitches. When I finally started using a 4k screen notebook, there were, and still are, problems with screen display/scaling; good luck predicting how your WinForm will appear on the sceeen; good luck getting rid of the nag notification about scaling that won;t go away which suggests a remedy that does not work.
Anyway, over the years, I developed a tolerance for what I call the "psychedelic light show" aspects of using VS.
The last several VS updates have made things worse: I often cannot edit something without scrolling the something "higher" because of pop-ups that won't get out of the way. The frequency of obnoxious pop-ups has gone up !
I understand if your response is: get your eyes fixed; get a bigger screen, etc. 
Believe it, or not, I recognize that VS, like PhotoShop, has become a vast aggregate of functionality built up of accretion of new facilities. And, imho, VS is not the cutting edge of MS dev initiatives ... that goes to web-centric, cross-platform ... Maui, Blazor, etc.
And, perhaps, WinForms is the poster-child of yesterday ? I blame ex-MS-executive Whatshisname for killing off SilverLight, the mess made with WPF's deprecation, and the whole diversion of MS dev resources to the "Metro" and WinRT fiascoes.
So, the top predator now digests the carcasses of Mono and Xamarin ... and, Maui is the "next big thing"
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I have been a long time users of ReSharper. Microsoft has been on a campaign of moving all the most used features from ReSharper into VS/VS 2022.
I use VS/VS 2022 all day long, all week long for work, with not issues really. I hardly need to enable ReSharper anymore now in VS.
The performance degradation is extremely noticeable now and has been in the past in VS if you have ReSharper enabled and I feel that is by design because Microsoft has never liked ReSharper.
Note 1: All of my friends that work at Microsoft use ReSharper and have been for a long time, but there is internal company pushback to stop using it for there internal software devs, etc.
Note 2: that the ReSharper headquarters is in Prague, Czech Republic and the last time I looked most of the R&D was done in Russia and Belarus. ReSharper has put out an official statement stating that they have suspended all R&D in Russia and Belarus.
Microsoft has kicked out all MVPs from Russia and Belarus in 2022, and ReSharper was an MS MVP for a long time, I believe.
All of this is online for you to research and fact check if you so choose.
Summary: ReSharper is amazing IMHO, but politics has set ReSharper's course for extinction.
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Slacker007 wrote: Summary: ReSharper is amazing IMHO, but politics has set ReSharper's course for extinction.
Which is sad. Scientists should be above that nonsense. But clearly we're not. The people that run MS are just as foolish as the next clown who doesn't think. Living the past. No current critical thinking skills. This ain't the 90s anymore.
Jeremy Falcon
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IF Jetbrains wanted to keep it going, they could've done what Intel did and help it's formerly Russian video driver developers relocate abroad. If Resharper dies, Jetbrains is just using the war as an excuse.
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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Quote: Note 2: that the ReSharper headquarters is in Prague, Czech Republic and the last time I looked most of the R&D was done in Russia and Belarus. ReSharper has put out an official statement stating that they have suspended all R&D in Russia and Belarus.
Microsoft has kicked out all MVPs from Russia and Belarus in 2022, and ReSharper was an MS MVP for a long time, I believe.
All of this is online for you to research and fact check if you so choose.
Summary: ReSharper is amazing IMHO, but politics has set ReSharper's course for extinction.
It's one thing for you to troll CP, and stalk me, and another for you to cast defamatory slurs on my friends in Czechoslovakia (at both JetBrains, and PostSharp).
JetBrains is a world-famous software company, a leading innovator whose products now go far beyond being focused on MS exclusively. ReSharper is a product, not an MVP.
Yearss ago, JetBrains actually gave CP members a year free sub to ReSharper.
Czechoslovakia is (and has been since the beginning) overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine: welcomes refugees, sends advanced tanks. Czechs have has a profound distrust of Russia since their occupation in 1968.
Microsoft suspended sales and R&D in Russia/Belarus.
JetBrains' actual statement on Russia/Belarus: [^]. Update: [^]
I'll let JetBrains know about your distorted attempt at defamation.
Shame on you.
@chrismaunder
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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How am I trolling you, and do you consider replying to your post as "stalking"..really??? and how was I defaming the people of the Czech Republic and Jetbrains? I have always been pro Jetbrains/ReSharper. If anything my post is shedding a negative light on Microsoft for how they are treating Jetbrains.
I am 50% Czech. My dad was 100% Czech (he is now passed on). My grandparents (my dad's mom and dad) immigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia.
I meant Jetbrains when referring to ReSharper, of course. I have been a subscriber to Jetbrains/Resharper since 2014.
Everything I mentioned is true.
And by the way, Czechoslovakia is the Czech Republic now, since 1993: Czechoslovakia | History, Map, & Facts | Britannica[^]
Shame on me? Really? Really?
modified 18-Jan-23 3:46am.
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There is no Czechoslovakia since 1993.
So, according to the Update link, they have absorbed as much Russian/Belorussian gene as they could.
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Isn't there a forum rule about "no politics"?
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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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