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kmoorevs wrote: Now begins the actual grunge work of migrating a few dozen reports from .rdl format to .rdlc.
In the olden days of engineering (think Tesla and Edison) we would have apprentices to do that grunt work that would follow our brilliant engineering. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: we would have apprentices
...wolf howls...
I tried that several years ago...didn't work out for them. I'd rather screw it up myself as then there's no question who to blame. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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OK, So I run up VS2017 and get it to create a blank Xamarin Forms cross platform app from it's built in templates.
And "Build"
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18 errors, 2 warnings.
"InitializeComponent" does not exist.
"Certificate expired"
"System" not found.
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OK, lets see ... check out the .cs file, and there is calls InitialiseComponent - right click, "go to definition" - file opens, there it is.
Close the file again. And ... all the errors vanish.
Run it and it works.
So, you have to open a file to tell it where the stuff it just created is? O....Kay... 
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The componentization of VS2017 is nice, especially since I work exclusively in native C++, However, I've been underwhelmed by the rest of the release. The CMake support is clunky, at best, and their C++17 support is lacking. I ran into a bug with the RC version that was so blatant, I wondered what else their non-testing let through (and Griff found at lease one!)
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Just a shot in the dark: If you have more than one project in the solution, make sure inter-project dependencies are set correctly. If not, the solution may build erratically, giving errors at times and not at other times.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It's a cross-platform app: it has four projects in the template.
But it's a unmodified project from a built in template: it should compile clean with no errors or warnings if it was ever tested...
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I created different project types and found that about 80% of the templates either
1. Same as was in 2015, so has problem finding the right reference before first compilation (referencing assembly that compiled for 4.5, but the project target is 4.6)
2. Missing references to support the code generated...
Microsoft was so eager to release the 'fast' version of 2015, that decided to build a new version around, but the process went a bit wrong...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm sure if it's anything like most MS releases of something new, you'll need to wait until the first update for it to be really usable. RTM means beta these days.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: you'll need to wait until the first update
The first update was released yesterday.
Release Date: March 14, 2017 (build 26628.09)
Issues fixed in this Release
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in build 26228.09:
"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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Is reincarnation making a comeback?
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Is that the late Griff speaking?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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In the most recent three of my past five lives, I haven't believed in reincarnation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A lively topic, to be sure, soul-y for those who dig it.
Corpses cue for breath sweeteners = in-turn-mint?
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Now where have I heard that before?
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Predestination is doomed to failure!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is reincarnation making a comeback?
You'll have to let me know, next life.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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One Buddhist might say: "as long as it takes;" another: "as long as you don't give;" another might giggle and hit you over the head with whatever was handy; and so forth and so on ?
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Or they might enter a burger joint, and ask them to make them one with everything... 
The old jokes are the best.
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Is just showing me the splash screen and nothing else ... and the app doesn't appear in the Task Manager apps list, so I can't easily kill it...
[edit]But it's process did! And died![/edit]
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processes -> devenv.exe -> kill!
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Yeah - I just thought it funny that everyone seems to be complaining about VS2017, and 2013 decided to misbehave for the first time...
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Until a couple of days ago I had VS2010, VS2013, VS2015 and VS2017, but the other day removed VS2010 and VS2015. Never really used VS2015 and hadn't used VS2010 in several years but downloaded VS2017 a few days ago and it seems pretty stable so I started using it as my primary IDE. The only reason I stayed with VS213 is that I had wrote a ToDoManager extension and come to rely on it heavily and VS2013 was the last IDE that I could install it on. I have looked high and low for a replacement with same functionality but haven't found anything like it. I id download out own dan.g's ToDoList the other day and am kicking the tires and it's almost a fit but there are some features I miss.
C'est la vie
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I've got 13, 15, and 17 installed on this PC, and like you didn't really use 15 that much - I installed it for Xamarin support, but ran out of time to get proficient with it so I stuck to 13.
I'll probably move to 17 over the next few months.
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Ditto on the 15 thing, I was looking at doing some Xamarin stuff also but then got off doing an embedded poc and got hooked on learning Angular.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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