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Hello,
Let me try to explain my words.
When I say "common controls" I mean edit/combo/listbox/list/tree controls with event driven data flow. When I say common controls I mean Windows 3.X and its descendants. Windows Forms, like Delphi previously, use this model with a few extensions.
When I say drugs addicted design I mean a new approach when framework developers are too lazy or to dump to implement all the common controls and pass this work to the application developers. My favorite example - Android GUI. WPF and its next approach called UWP are another examples of this kind of technology.
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Bill, I understand your pain. I lost my right eye a couple of years ago and the left has a combination of myopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, and a cataract (surgery next month). This is in addition to the mental changes challenges excreta associated with getting ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing old. Pardon the vulgarity, but I haven't had my coffee yet.
BillWoodruff wrote: I often cannot edit something without scrolling the something "higher" because of pop-ups that won't get out of the way
I'm using VS2019 and I've turned a lot of that crap off. While I understand how it could be useful it clutters my visual field and the noise from the constant flickering is profoundly annoying. This is over and above wearing off the keytop of my [Esc] key dismissing the Clippy-esque "this looks inept; are you sure you're smart enough to do this?" prompts.
Good luck, and remember that soon enough the youngsters will have to maintain the crap we leave behind  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary, thanks for your concern and thoughts !
For all what may appear as "ranting" re VS, I still am a devotee  ... and, I doubt I'll have another language I "love" the way I do C# in this life.
It's obvious to me that VS has only partially caught up with being displayed on a 4k 15.6 inch laptop screen when Windows settings are high contrast, font scaling, and screen resolution setting at a lower dpi than 4k screen setting. But, what a complex set of confounding factors that is !
The bizarre behavior of auto-complete deserves a separate roasting, and I will post it under the title "maniac in the house"
Best wishes on your upcoming surgery; mine (both eyes, general anesthesia) has been postponed until the docs say "other problems" are resolved.
cheers, Bill
ยซThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledยป Plutarch
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You're very welcome, and best of luck to you too. Us old gits (pun intended) have to stick together  .
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Gary Wheeler wrote: the left has a combination of myopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, and a cataract (surgery next month)
FWIW - I had cataracts in both eyes and a small astigmatism - had them both done a few years ago and they installed super fancy multi-focal lenses.
Results have been spectacular! I no longer need vision correction at all. Near, far, reading... all good! At night, lights have a small corona but its no big deal.
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fgs1963 wrote: they installed super fancy multi-focal lenses
Good to know. I'm deciding the type of implant lens I want. The basic lens is covered by my insurance, but the other lens types have added cost. I don't know yet if my astigmatism can be corrected by the more capable lenses.
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I had the same choice - 1) "free" basic lens and "you'll definitely need bifocals" OR 2) $2500 fancy lens and "you may not need glasses". I took the chance and couldn't be happier. Best $5000 I've ever spent.
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Can't say I disagree...
I am still using VS 2019 with the latest version.
I would like to upgrade to VS 2022 but it does not support .NET Framework 4.6 out of the box, which I am still using for my WPF development.
Why change when this framework just works well?
With .NET Core, it appears as if Microsoft tried to throw as much of the baby out with the bathwater as possible.
And of course, first with MVC and now with ASP.NET Core, Microsoft has now turned web development into a gargantuan mess. Web Forms was the epitome of web development and efficiency but as soon as the "purists" got their fangs into all of it, Web Forms was derided into oblivion. Why? To be replaced by a cacophony of stupid front-end tools under JavaScript with a host of frameworks and back-end tools made up of the same that have only added massive complexity and increased insecurity in such development.
Why do we now need to know dozens of tools when Web Forms was a fairly compartmentalized environment?
I say BS to those who seem to believe that these new web development environments are better than the original.
Prove it!
Microsoft has historically just gone and upended its own development environments with no concern for the consequences of what it was doing. One wonders if there was any real money to be made behind all of this.
VS 2022 appears to be landing space for all of the new tools, frameworks, and development environments that Microsoft would like all of us to use.
I installed it a while back with the hopes of doing some upgrades to my own projects but it completely messed up my VS 2019 installation forcing me to uninstall both VS 2022 and VS 2019 and then re-installing VS 2019 again to get a clean installation.
Based on recent research, this issue has yet to be fixed by Microsoft, but probably like Microsoft's Solitaire with its broken advertising processes, all of this is probably being done to force many of us to move up to the next version of VS.
So far I am resistant to doing so...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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The post below got me wondering.
I am currently learning to program ARM MicroControllers on an NUCLEOF411 dev board.
Awesome little board; ($13 at DigiKey)
- 512KBytes Flash
- 128KBytes SRAM
- Arduino UNO connectivity
- On board programmer/debugger
I'm learning one section at a time, currently the clock system. Very versatile.
Question: Would a series of articles on the ARM be of interest here?
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available!
JaxCoder.com
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Definitely! 
A sumptuous M4!
I'm battling everyday M0 and M3.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I've got some M0, waiting for the boards so I can try to mount them.
Learning to solder using rework station for surface mount devices. So far I've managed to do 8-pin devices decently so I'm going to attempt some 32-pin m0's. Created some very simple boards to mount the devices on from JCLPCB, should be here next week and then I can make the attempt.
Really liking the ARM chips, but there is a bit of a learning curve; the chip, the STM32CubeIDE and the docs.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available!
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I'm battling the TLE987x series, M0 is a gaming device compared to what I use
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Well it is M3, after all.
I do agree, the M0 is sooooooooo simple. I like it very much.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
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