Rant VS2003
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Ok, I managed to get VS2003 with it's vaunted service pack 1 up and running of Vista RTM 32bit. Everything looked good as I was compiling, running, and debugging some code. Then I wanted to find a note I had made in my code so I decided to use the 'Find In Files' feature....... The whole IDE crashed. For crying out loud. I still don't comprehend the MS decision to not support a product that is still in their official support cycle. Off to bed for me now, maybe it will magically work tomorrow.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Lon
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Ok, I managed to get VS2003 with it's vaunted service pack 1 up and running of Vista RTM 32bit. Everything looked good as I was compiling, running, and debugging some code. Then I wanted to find a note I had made in my code so I decided to use the 'Find In Files' feature....... The whole IDE crashed. For crying out loud. I still don't comprehend the MS decision to not support a product that is still in their official support cycle. Off to bed for me now, maybe it will magically work tomorrow.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Lon
Chris Austin wrote:
I still don't comprehend the MS decision to not support a product that is still in their official support cycle.
You can use it under XP (which is also still within their official support cycle). :) It looks like developers are going to be forced to run dual-boot systems (or two physically separate systems) if they need to support Vista and "legacy" OS's.
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Ok, I managed to get VS2003 with it's vaunted service pack 1 up and running of Vista RTM 32bit. Everything looked good as I was compiling, running, and debugging some code. Then I wanted to find a note I had made in my code so I decided to use the 'Find In Files' feature....... The whole IDE crashed. For crying out loud. I still don't comprehend the MS decision to not support a product that is still in their official support cycle. Off to bed for me now, maybe it will magically work tomorrow.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Lon
Not that it helps here but I think that Find in Files in both VS 2003 and 2005 is not that well implemented anyway. I often drop out to TextPad to do it. Still, strange that it crashes. Does it work OK in VS 2005 or do you not have that?
Kevin
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Ok, I managed to get VS2003 with it's vaunted service pack 1 up and running of Vista RTM 32bit. Everything looked good as I was compiling, running, and debugging some code. Then I wanted to find a note I had made in my code so I decided to use the 'Find In Files' feature....... The whole IDE crashed. For crying out loud. I still don't comprehend the MS decision to not support a product that is still in their official support cycle. Off to bed for me now, maybe it will magically work tomorrow.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Lon
My answer would be: use desktop search for this ;P The search in files option drops my VS2005 dead too, so I browsed to the folder where the source is sitting and used the searchbox in top-right corner of the window.
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "You can always try to smash it with a wrench to fix that. It might actually work" - WillemM
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Ok, I managed to get VS2003 with it's vaunted service pack 1 up and running of Vista RTM 32bit. Everything looked good as I was compiling, running, and debugging some code. Then I wanted to find a note I had made in my code so I decided to use the 'Find In Files' feature....... The whole IDE crashed. For crying out loud. I still don't comprehend the MS decision to not support a product that is still in their official support cycle. Off to bed for me now, maybe it will magically work tomorrow.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Lon
I just rebuilt my laptop with Vista RTM and I was going through the VC8 options, changing stuff to how I like it. After a few minutes of clicking (and comparing stuff with VC6 so they both look the same), I clicked OK and..... nothing. I got the SPINNY CURSOR OF DOOM. :sigh: (I wonder if MS meant to make that cursor like the Mac's Beachball Of Death.)
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