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I tried installing it at home as I was playing with some c# stuff. It requires the latest version of IE which fails to install for some obscure reason on my home machine. Real men code in vim.
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_Josh_ wrote: Real men code in vim.
I don't disagree, but feel that
"real men code in their underpants" is more accurate.
Unless it's my computer (which is always a possibility, I guess) then I am disapointed that 2013 can be as bad as my initial experience leads me to believe!
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There is a simple registry hack to tell the installer you have IE10 installed.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
"svcVersion"="10.0.0.0"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
"svcVersion"="10.0.0.0"
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Awesome, thanks. I'll try it out tonight.
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Actually I'm pleased MS implemented such a brain dead requirement, it was the final straw that got us local admin rights back from the policy nazis.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The original installer REQUIRED that you install at least IE10.
The current installer RECOMMENDS that you use at least IE10, but you can ignore it. 'Course, that means you miss out on some of the Microsoft crappiness.
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I have to reboot at least twice a day, whether this is because the IT gods crap all over my system at lunch time or VS2013 has finally spat the dummy completely I'm not sure.
Except when it loses the plot, as per your rant, it seems a little faster that 12. All version of VS have had their shortcomings but I'd rather not have to use another IDE.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: All version of VS have had their shortcomings
Except version 6, that was the sweet spot as a c++ programmer before all the dot net stuff came along.
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really?
Even over VS2008 with SP1?
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I've actually been pleasantly surprised in working with VS2013 versus 08, 10, or 12.
I do, however, have to restart VS (both 12 and 13) more than once in a while because it doesn't recognize that I removed a class and so decides that it won't compile anymore.
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Everybody in the office gets sick of me shouting out "Win-Doze!".
I'm running 2010 on a crappy, Business Systems-loaded XP machine. The hardware is Core2Duo with plenty of RAM, which should be hot to trot, but no. It goes to sleep more often than a geriatric Llama.
Yesterday, for a new project, I had the joy of installing VS2012 on a 7 machine, Core i5, plenty of RAM.
The situation is slightly improved, but now I have the new, 'antique newspaper' interface. And while you can make 2012 install through a proxy(with complaints of course), updating the windows itself proves impossible once you update the updater.
And of course I just loved watching all the branded MS features install, and going 'WTF is that?'
Never mind.
My pirate friends have obtained the old Edward Woodward series '1990' for me, and I can at least escape from 'Dogs Win Prizes From Simon Cowell's Haircut' for a few hours.
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In my case 2013 works pretty well. It is slower than 2010 to open a project and for the first compiles... but after every "Lazy<T>" is loaded it works fine.
In fact, when using 2010 for javascript it crashed a lot (or it tooks hours to do something stupid and I forced it to close before that). 2013 works much better for that.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: have also had to close it and re-open once as the intellisense refused to pick
up some new classes that had been added
Ya, intellisense is pretty buggy. Helps to close all the code windows, exit, restart, and wait wait wait until intellisense is done grinding on a core rebuilding its database.
_Maxxx_ wrote: 'Waiting for required operation ...'
Running it in a virtual machine? or on a system with little memory? Only time I've seen similar behavior is from someone running windows in a virtual machine that isn't configured to be overloaded with RAM. Its not spinning on the CPU when it does that, so we suspect it's thrashing memory.
If you can get past those issues, it's really quite nice to use.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Rebuilds target from over 140 source files, around 90,000 lines of C and C++ with 160 header files, in less than a minute and a half. Too fast really, it was nice to get a 5 minute break.
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Strange, I have a good experience with Visual Studio 2013, except, when programming on C++, but I can live with it. Your problems seems related to low memory (or slow HDD).
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I have also had to close it and re-open once as the intellisense refused to pick up some new classes that had been added - leaving red squiggles a-plenty even though it would build clean.
If you are always getting latest from source control when opening a project, disable that, or you can write a batch file to delete your *.suo files before you open a solution (though of course you'll lose your startup project and open files and who knows what other conveniences). Kind of sucks, but that was MSFT's response to our company's complaint about the squiggles (apparently the async loading fails), as opposed to, I don't know, fixing the bug. Our situation was for Silverlight projects, so YMMV.
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My brother has asked me to recommend a laptop for up to £500.
Principally music and light duty stuff, no hard core gaming.
He survives by using his phone right now.
He's basically competent on front of a PC but fighting with things that don't work as expected will entail me spending lots of time on the phone solving problems without being able to see the screen.
So I was looking for something flexible and found the ASUS TAICHI21-CW011H[^] but it's a bit expensive.
Anyone know of anything similar in the right price bracket?
Thanks,
M
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Lenovo do a fair range at a good price.
Keyboards a bit 'Thin' if you know what I mean, but a nice enough machine for the price.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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There's an app[^] for that.
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and on the "other" phone :
APOD[^] 
I'd rather be phishing!
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What other phone? 
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I'm guessing it starts with an "i".
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jeron1 wrote: I'm guessing it starts with an "i".
impaired?
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