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It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago.
Usually by the time I have a question I'm buried up to my neck in the problem and totally lost, but even articulating the question fully is difficult, much less getting an answer. Like this: Rendering subrectangles of a control[^]
If I have to ask a question it's one of the worst parts of my day in terms of coding. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 22-Feb-23 10:55am.
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it's been working on the problem for days.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago.
You don't answer your own questions when you find the solution? 
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I find when I start answering my own questions I probably need a break
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Talk to yourself. Sometimes it’s the only intelligent conversation you will get all day.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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A lot of times when I start asking the question I discover that I know the answer! 
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I'm the same. I tend to get white noise when I ask.
I have learned to look for similar answers to get pointers to the solution needed ... Asking Google is a skill many don't learn ... sometimes rubber ducking in the shower works for shaping those google search questions...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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I don't talk to myself out loud. I think its a strange thing to do. But that's me.
I just curse aloud when the frustration gets to be too much and then dive back in.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yeah I have the same problem. By the time I have to ask a question I'm so frustrated and lost and don't even remember all I've tried my question is unanswerable because it makes no sense...except to me. 
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Have you considered simplifying questions like the linked one?
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Yes to this.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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In my first job, my supervisor said I asked too many questions and "might not make it". I never asked anyone another question again; ever. (Unless it dealt with coffee or something).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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It sounds like that supervisor didn't take the time to invest in mentoring of new hires. Which is sad because that doesn't make for a healthy work environment.
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Crazy thought, maybe?
Is there a possibility to check how the open source Linux GUI implementation solve that?
I mean, only to get some ideas. I'm aware that they have a much more comfortable environemet...
Crazy, but who knows.
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Someone has solved it/validated a solution I had tried earlier
The problem is somewhere else in my code, and maybe even in my (released, used in production) graphics library. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's depressing, because more often than not I'm searching with the googly bits, and I'm like "yay an old forum post popped up in the search" - then I click on it and it's my own unanswered post from a month ago.
Speaking from experience, it's even more depressing when it's your own unanswered post from 5 years ago! 
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Don't know if this is the right place to post this, but does anyone have experience of using this? I'm thinking of giving it a go.
Cordially yours, p!ssed off with Xcode.
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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@Chris-Maunder probably does.
"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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Yep: Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined[^]
[Clarification:] So VS-Code is NOT the super-Windowsy Visual Studio. And you have to (quite smoothly) install loads of plugins. But it supports more languages (and environments such as Docker) than you can ever name.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I've used it through a few iterations but I've always found it really awkward. It tries to be a Mac application, but it wants to look like Visual Studio, Windows. It never really achieves both.
I wanted to use Visual Studio on the Mac so I could ditch Windows entirely. Working on a Mac means my phone, iPad, watch and desktop all share the same tools and features and work together without fuss. Just way easier. Our CodeProject codebase uses WebForms and it's uneconomical to port to .NET Core / Blazor pages so we stick with what works. Unfortunately webforms aren't supported on VS for Mac so the motivation for VS wasn't there anymore.
I'm now 100% Visual Studio Code on all my machines - macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi. Same experience on all, same code, same features. Even on the Pi, which blows me away. CodeProject.AI Server and my other projects all work within VS Code and I find that using a tool not so predicated on Microsoft tech makes it far easier to switch between things like Python or Go, bash or BAT. It's very egalitarian.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thank you Chris, that's helpful.
Apart from all that, my concern would be that VS doesn't 'know' all the clever things that Xcode knows about developing (Cocoa-based, in my case) applications for the Mac. Code signing is a particularly tricky area to get right, as you probably know.
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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I think Visual Studio may make that easier than VSCode, but VSCode does have a huge extensions ecosystem happening so you never know.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Our CodeProject codebase uses WebForms
Maybe the first step is to port to Dot Net Core and gain the perf boost. Blazor Unity looks very promising and may be the right time, after porting to DotNet.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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