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I've been using VS since it was called Visual Interdev when it was introduced to the UK in 1997 (I was at the launch event in London). I use it full time for web development. Then it was VB, then WebForms (big mistake) and now C# and Razor. The one thing that's REALLY hacked me off with it, despite bringing it up time and time again with MS is the fact you cannot totally switch off code formatting. It is definitely the case that I expend more key strokes correcting it's auto-formatting than I do writing code. It's such a pity. I think it's probably to do with the fact that Razor files contain multiple languages (HTML, C#, JS and poss CSS). Even simply cutting and pasting a piece of SASS, or JS or C# in file ends up with the whole file reformatted. Luckily Ctrl+z corrects it and then you can do what you wanted originally with it.
I think MS assume we all write code from scratch so their formatting is fine. But if you're constantly dipping in and out of loads of projects from all over the place, all with different formatting then you want to do it yourself. If any MS devs are reading this, PLEASE SORT THIS OUT. I have no respect for people that just rush onto the next eye-catcher that(let's be honest) hardly anyone uses, when you don't sort the basics out that effects everybody.
I feel better now
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Here here!! While I generally agree VS is a top tier IDE. I want a moment on the soapbox..
How about bring back temporary projects. I got very spoiled with that feature and then they dropped it in vs2019. They claimed it was dropped because useage metrics deemed no one used it.. yet it immediately got feedback. I called out what usage metrics they could have possibly gotten to make this determination (unless VS phones home your every click??).
What probably happened is temp projects doesnt fit the way they implemented the new start screen, which I find actually a bit clunky to spin up new projects than the old way. It was handy to spin up a console app, tinker with a snippet of code, and discard. No neee to save to a Temp folder and remember to clear it out. For that I still open VS2017 instances.
I'll step off the soapbox now before I go on about their recent trend extensions.
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I remember being in a launch presentation when temporary projects was touted as the big new thing that was going to be really useful, and yeah, it was. So why drop it?
I just recently threw out the set of manuals that came with Visual C++ 1.0 that I bought with my own money. Those were the days
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Yes. The auto-formatting is annoying. Gets it wrong too often. Would be better to disable it completely.
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Yes you're right. MS tooling with C# in particular is way more developed than most other options.
Sadly though it this becomes less true for cross-platform UI and C#.
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Eh, it is all what you get used to... I personally find Eclipse to work the best for me and flounder around in Visual Studio.
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Familiarity does play a role
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Aunt chews fishy seed (6, 3)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Is this a cryptic way of saying you have the answer?
If not, I presume
CASHEW NUT
It goes without saying
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Nice and simple, but I liked it!
You are up tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I should boot you out for that!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Just thought I'd slipper in there
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Even with that clue I could not for the life of me see cashew.
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Aunt chews AUNTCHEWS
fishy (anag) seed
CASHEW NUT
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I knew it was a nut, just could not get other silly words out of my head. I think senility is getting the better of me.
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Can tell I have been away for a while, I completed missed the obvious.
I thought "chews" was the anagram indicator, and "aunt" was the definition, so I was trying to reassemble "fishy seed".
I managed to get feedyh sis, which I figured looked like a plausible Welsh word for "father"
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Nice try!
("Father" in Welsh is really simple: "Tad". Pronounced as "taad" with a long "A".)
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Is there also a long "A" in the Welsh word for "Mother"?
"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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I'm not going to rise to your trollbait!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Was the invention of the shovel a groundbreaking discovery?
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Most likely. And if the shovel has been involved in a violent crime, then this can safely be called bleeding edge technology.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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absolutely, so simple yet is the hole solution.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Can we drop the puns please, I dig it,already!
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Everything works out until you get mixed up with the Hoe!
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
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