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Weeks ago I said I tried to get Windows Sandbox working in Win10, and no matter what I tried I failed, because 1 and 2 screens became linked together, and things became impossible to use.
Evidently, the subconscious is a powerful thing, because for some reason today I wondered what would happen if I eliminated all screens on my system except for the laptop's main screen before installing Sandbox. Found out it wasn't quite that simple, because Windows tried to keep the settings for the secondary screen, so with the secondary screen working, I had to actually go in and make the laptop's screen primary, set to mirror on other, then unplug.
So, with only one primary laptop screen on the system, I installed Sandbox that way. Then plugged the secondary monitor in and for once IT WORKED! It still shows 4 more screens that don't exist on my system when I personalize display settings, but IT WORKED! I was even able to make the attached display into the primary display, with the laptop's screen to the right of it as they are on the desk.
What a pain in the ass.
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You know? Things like this are why I ditched computer monitors and got a 55" 4k qled tv as a monitor. Now i have 4 1080p monitors in front of me, and no slaying the various multimon dragons.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Not all of us have tons of cash flowing out of our pockets because of template magic trickery drivers! 
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Well, next time you go to upgrade consider it. I did spend a pretty penny, but there isn't a day that goes by where I don't feel the $1100 I dumped into my computer's "human interface" was worth it.
I learned a long time ago that the part of the computer that faces me and that I touch is the most important part of the machine.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I totally agree. I just bought a 46" UHD QLED tv for my monitor, and it is incredible. And was only $500 CDN.
However I still want all the screen real estate possible, so I also have a 4K 32" screen along with my 4K 17" laptop touch screen. I use these monitors for secondary work (emails, Teams meetings), so not always looking at them, just when something pops up that I need to be aware of.
The biggest issue I was having was the older docking station didn't support the highest resolution on all monitors at once. Once I upgraded the docking station I am always running at max resolution.
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I hate to inform you, but when it comes to 4K TVs, 55" is kinda entry-level.
I've paid more in years gone by for much smaller monitors, and they had nowhere near the resolution of what you can get today.
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I released a whole version of GFX. Even passing my unit tests in two different build environments.
Then I ran it on a local project and it failed to compile.
This after spending most of the day getting my X11 color table to be constexpr under C++14 - which apparently is very difficult to do in this particular case, if not impossible.
I thought I had it sorted. So much that I *released*. Not only that, I updated about a dozen drivers that rely on it to use the new (broken) version.
In the end I reverted the offending code back, and released *yet another version* with yet more drivers.
*headdesk*
Oh, and I still don't know *why* it fails to compile in some contexts, and yet passes my unit tests, and it's not so easy to just bring the failing code into the tests, because it's the house that jack built.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 15-Apr-22 7:33am.
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sounds like the very old and ancient saying "works on my computer".
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Actually it failed on my computer. But just under a certain circumstance.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Then add a caveat, "Do not use in this configuration"
And then hit them in the head with a rubber chicken.
Shoot, spent 15 minutes and can't find a video if Archie Campbell doing the schtick.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I don't work at nearly the complex level that you do.
I don't mean to be presumptuous, but it occurs to me that your unit Tests are incomplete. In your shoes, I'd look at them.
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They definitely are and due to the nature of it they're likely to remain incomplete. Code coverage of my api would require a team of testers to complete in a timely manner due to the size of the test matrix. I don't know anything about fuzzing but I've heard it might be worth it for me to look into, in terms of teasing out bugs.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I just realized it's going to require 4 instances of Visual Studio to debug what I'm working on. One for the primary application, one for all of the underlying Windows services except the new one I'm debugging, one for my new service, and one for the hardware simulator written by my minion.
Cry havoc, and let slip the debuggers of war!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Approximately a TB of RAM needed.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My development box has 16GB.
Implementing ICorset now...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Implementing ICurseit now...
ftfy
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That one too  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I feel your pain. 
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To work on our project on any routine day, requires 5 instances of Visual Studio. Out project consists of about 10 different solutions each containing from 30 to 138 projects. Our development boxes only have 32 GB and we also have ReSharper installed.
Let me say that switching from one instance of VS to another takes about 30 seconds for it to page memory in and out.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: 30 seconds for it to page memory
Egads. Thankfully I'm not dealing with that. I assume your Pointy-Haired Boss types realize what a PITA the ass this is, and have turned down reasonable amounts of RAM (I'm guessing 128GB or more)?
Not to brag, but my boss asks us fairly often if we need anything. If it was something cheap like RAM or disk he'd pop for it in a second.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not sure about the HW simulator, but why can you not debug all instances in a single VS? Is it a lack of resources on your system that prevents you loading everything into a single VS instance?
The new VS 2022 is 64 bit, and can handle a large app memory footprint. And while I haven't tried it, it can supposedly work across multiple repositories for the same solution at the same time too.
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We're using VS2019. Part of the debugging and testing requires each of the separate processes to exit and restart with the others running. There doesn't appear to be any way to "stop debugging" on an individual process, even using the Debug Processes window. You can detach from a process, kill it with Task Manager, start it again outside Studio, and then attach to it, but that's really cumbersome.
The workflow is just simpler running everything in separate instances.
Software Zen: delete this;
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He has a metric ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ton of metric :elphant:tons of money. Whatever he does, he wins.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As do every other billionaire and their cronies. Most of them want to restrict what you do and expand what they do. In either case you don't have freedom or choice. They fund all these messages to say you shouldn't fly and then own their own jets. They say you should minimize, and they buy multiple houses on beach front property around the world.
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