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I have spent all day recreating a project because VS decided last night that there was a problem, and kept flashing up error message boxes with compilation error problems - and then running the app anyway, as if nothing had happened.
Now, I've had this one before, and I'm pretty sure it means that VS has got itself confused and stored some bad info in one of it's many intermediate files - one it doesn't actually clean when you tell it clean the solution, or rebuild all. And the only solution I have found is to create a new project and add each end every file, one at a time, building each file in, and eventually you end up with the same project as you started with, but it compiles this time...
So I did. And sure, I have the same project I had yesterday, but it all works now.
For an hour.
Then it decided to find a new problem...this time it couldn't set up a variable in the designer.cs file because
protected MyWalletBL.Branch Branch;
...
this.selectFavourites.Branch = ((MyWalletBL.Branch)(resources.GetObject("selectFavourites.Branch")));
has a different type on each side of the equals... 
Two hours of searching, faffing and general swearing.
Then I removed all the references from each project, cleaned the solution, closed VS, reopened it, cleaned it again, and put the references back.
Oh look! It works again...
It looks like VS keeps intermediate semicompiled assemblies and can refer to two different versions of the same assembly in the same line of code without you having to change that assembly in any way
And I haven't even tried to make my base class UserControl abstract yet...maybe I won't do that at all!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I hate it when VS decides to do that. I usually use VS or #D for editing, and compile from the command line.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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OriginalGriff wrote: make my base class UserControl abstract
You do realize that's the Visual Studio equivalent of crossing the streams[^], don't you?
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's why I haven't done it yet... 
But... it should be, I'm just kinda... reluctant... to do it.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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It's not too bad - I've done it before, but it's a PITA to get round the VS bug that the designer can't show anything that is directly based on an abstract class 
So I wrote up the process as a tip: Deriving a concrete class from an abstract UserControl[^] for posterity!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I feel your pain!
I've taken to restarting VS as a first step any time any strange errors occur after the hours I have wasted puzzling over incomprehensible issues.
This is especially annoying in the WPF designer when VS insists there are errors, which magically go away on a restart (but not on clean, rebuild or closing/opening the source file)
As (on my system, at least)it can take 30 seconds + to open a Xaml (just the source, no rendering) I am drinking toooooo much coffee - as I restart VS and go grab a cup while it lumbers along.
Thanks for the excuse to co-rant 
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Glad to have been of service! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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And instead of fixing the problem let's put out a new version with a brand spanking new UI and we'll call that a hidden feature.
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So:
-- It's forever interrupting and popping up suggestions while you're trying to communicate with it.
-- It constantly remembers and brings up things you'd rather forget.
-- It multi-tasks more than some IDUs, but seemingly not with any regard for efficiency.
Damn. All we need is for it to open a messagebox suggesting that you stop and ask for directions, and the root cause of all the problems will be confirmed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Woman.
Can't flaw the logic...
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The void.
And then I heard it like a shot through my skull to my brain,
I felt my fingertips tingle and it started to rain,
When the walls of my bedroom were tremblin' around me,
This ramshackle voice over attack of a bluebeat,
And tellin' me she's only looking for fun.
And this was the sound of the very last gang in town.
I'da called you Woody, Joe
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A woman that function is better
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Then it wouldn't matter: it'd be my husband's fault. At least that's my experience with she who must.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Can't flaw the logic...
Dunno about that. You could probably disprove it with logic -- but not with the laws of Physics.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's a tautology, so it logically doesn't add new information and is therefore useless/redundant. I think, as such, it can't be disproven. Other great tautologies include 1 + 1 = 2 as the left hand side equals the right hand side, and it follows that every [correct] maths equation/formula you've ever read is a tuatology and is therefore logically useless. Next I shall prove black is white and get killed on a Zebra crossing.
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Sandwich.
[Sorry - I'll get my coat]
And then I heard it like a shot through my skull to my brain,
I felt my fingertips tingle and it started to rain,
When the walls of my bedroom were tremblin' around me,
This ramshackle voice over attack of a bluebeat,
And tellin' me she's only looking for fun.
And this was the sound of the very last gang in town.
I'da called you Woody, Joe
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...bleeding ears.
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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Hi,
[  ]
With friendly greetings, 
Eric Goedhart
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No Woman, no debt.
( flashbacks of a bad divorce  )
I awoke in a fever,
The bedclothes were all soaked in sweat.
She said, "You've been having a nightmare.
And it's not over yet" - Roger Waters
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With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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The first word that came to my mind was "boobies".
Business as usual here, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What will happen if they drive?
Hello World!
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