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Ok so you are talking about VS2015 - I sit there patiently waiting for the bloody thing to finish, mainly because if I corrupt my primary work tool by jumping on it I'm going to feel like a right idiot as I spend 3 hours reinstalling it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's doubtful you'll have time to investigate properly what it's doing, but if you haven't knowingly given the program the right to access the Internet, pull the cable/slam your firewall down, to see how it reacts.
If it's something like acrobat, which shouldn't be performing any background operations anyway, kill the process tree.
ElseIf it's something that has to move files around, it might be waiting for a response from windows' delayed write processes, so I'd give it a few seconds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Press the shutdown button and right before the computer actually shutsdown, after the process was killed, cancel the shutdown.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >></div>
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Check to see if there is any disk access going on. If not, KILL KILL KILL.
As for Windows update. I know a young lady who got fed up after waiting two hours for her PC to shut down. She pulled the plug and trashed the hard drive. I guess the warning is there fir folk like that.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Windows update is another matter altogether. 
I've disabled automatic Windows update a long time ago, exactly because it's programmed so badly that it sometimes won't let me shut down or restart my PC when I want it. Instead it chooses the least opportune moments: when I'm about to leave to catch a train; when I'm on commute, with crappy internet connection and almost out of power; when I have unsaved data that I can't save because the update will run in the foreground and blocks everything else, and then restarts without giving me a chance to save it (happened to me with Windows 8 at least twice); when I'm playing a realtime game; or, simply, when I have more important stuff to do than waiting for an update to finish!
That's one of the main reasons I'm still running W7: it lets me delay updates as long as I want to, and won't override my WU settings automagically without telling or asking me (as Windows 8 likes to do).
MS likes to think that 'free' is a great offer for Windows 10, but it isn't for me. I did not spend so much money on hardware to give MS control over my box and then, possibly, trash it. I want an OS that gives me control over my hardware, and the best one for that purpose is still W7.
An OS that takes away control from me is like a virus masquerading as an antivirus program: it pretends to be helpful but isn't; it takes away control from the user in disregard of his preferences; and it performs actions that may trash the system without offering the user an option to stop it.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Yes it's funny how those updates always seem to choose the worst possible moment. Linux has a similar annoyance when it announces a download of, say, 250MB and then proceeds to download a couple of Gigs.
I bit the bullet and went for Windows 10, despite my fears. I haven't regretted it yet. The only things I dislike are the half hearted start menu (replaced with Classic Shell) and the way Edge insists that all downloads go to the downloads folder. I still have a drive with Windows 7 that I keep handy but I haven't been tempted to use it yet.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Type 'Please' then go out for coffee. Be sure to type 'Thank you' when
you return.
73
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I was in the meeting where we decided to retired project.json. The problem is that the .NET ecosystem is large and growing
Back to XML and csproj I guess.
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Never heard of it. What is it? The github page for it doesn't even describe it, goes right into "dependencies." Typical programmer documentation. 
Marc
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They replaced the XML based build/project files with .json files. Unfortunately they ran into json limitations and now decided to go back to XML.
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Nish Nishant wrote: Unfortunately they ran into json limitations and now decided to go back to XML.
Ah. Would be interesting to read what limitations they ran into.
Marc
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Nish Nishant wrote: they ran into json limitations
From what I've read, it was more that they couldn't move every other VS project type to JSON at the same time, and they didn't want to have two separate project systems.
"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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The other issue they were having is that there isn't an easy way to write comments into JSON.
Eric
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So they tested it thoroughly beforehand? 
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That's the beauty of open sourcing your development. All the failed prototypes you abandon are out in public for the peanut gallery to snark at. 
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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very interesting article. Thanks for posting. 
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You are welcome
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And we can all breath a sigh of relief.
JSON is awesome for the things that it is awesome for. A config file that both humans and computers have to read is not one of those things.
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Hooray Hooray for the Twelfth of May
Chicken Fat Canning Begins Today!
Why this? Scores of years ago I used to read MAD magazine. They had something called the “marginal thinking department”, which were little randomly located items in the margins of pages.The above was one of them. Finally, I remembered on THE day, itself, and needed to blurt it out. Hating to use a cliché, but it’s akin to a bucket-list event. With so many eyes having seen it, I feel quite the sense of relief.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Huh?! (cultural reference missing)
I'd rather be phishing!
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I can't believe you aren't canning chicken fat yet!
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My younger brother loved Mad magazine, so I never had to buy one.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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There is a story going around that there is a device that can read your credit card information through your billfold, pocket book, and clothing. The information on the cards are on a magnetic strip and/or a chip. I've had to swipe my card more than once to get a reader at a store to read it. The more I think about it reading the strip or chip through all the above and not even rubbing up against the person carrying the card would be unlikely at best. An episode of NCIS had a girl doing just that.
Okay you knowers of all things tech, is this possible?
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