Piece of @$#(*&!^ VS2015...
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So I started a new project at work. We're still running on VS2010, but we were planning to upgrade with VS2015. Just my luck that my project started pretty much on the release date of VS2015. I was given a choice, go with all the new tech in VS2015 or stay in the jurassic 2010. I choose 2015. Piece of crap crashes randomly when typing some HTML and Knockout (in a Razor file). I now find myself copy-pasting code to Notepad++, making my changes and copy-pasting it back into VS2015 :sigh:
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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So I started a new project at work. We're still running on VS2010, but we were planning to upgrade with VS2015. Just my luck that my project started pretty much on the release date of VS2015. I was given a choice, go with all the new tech in VS2015 or stay in the jurassic 2010. I choose 2015. Piece of crap crashes randomly when typing some HTML and Knockout (in a Razor file). I now find myself copy-pasting code to Notepad++, making my changes and copy-pasting it back into VS2015 :sigh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
I understand your pain... I have just posted an essay that describes my own experiences of simply trying to upgrade from VS 2013 SP3 to VS 2013 SP5. Please see... http://blackfalconsoftware.wordpress.com/ I believe you will find a kindred spirit...
Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Sander Rossel wrote:
I mean, this stuff was tested, right
WTF do you think YOU are doing, haven't you reported the bug(s) yet, tcha you can't get good help these days!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
This was a long time ago, but the last time I was on a team that reported a compiler(!) bug to Microsoft, it didn't get fixed. After chasing the support person for a while, they finally admitted that they'd been able to confirm the bug, but had been told by the developers to back off because they were too busy getting the next release out to worry about our compiler bug. We ended up having to work around their bug to get our release out. Every time I'm tempted to report a bug to MS I remember that experience, and refrain from wasting my time.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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In my experience, VS2015 has been pretty stable, most of the issues I encountered, even in 2013 could be attributed to extensions. Sander, what extensions do you have loaded?
Nothing, it's a clean install. I added some "packages" with NuGet, but that's mostly a bunch of JavaScript and CSS files in my solution. So nothing weird going on there.
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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No surprises here. When was the last time they released something that wasn't a train wreck? I just installed windows 10 only to find out LiveMail is a flaming bag of *@#! too. Microsoft's sun is setting...they will soon be as irrelevant to software as IBM is to hardware. Bummer too (I based a career around these kids) :((
Jephre
Jfid wrote:
When was the last time they released something that wasn't a train wreck?
*Looks up the Windows 7 release date* 2009, so about 6 years ago ;)
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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What's the good stuff in 2013? I'm stuck with 2010 and haven't played with anything new in a while.
I couldn't say right from the top of my head. It's just a better overall experience. I guess intellisense for HTML and JavaScript is a lot better. Editor just works a bit better. There's a few new options. I'm sure you can find some articles comparing version x to version y though. Funny how I like 2013, but I can't really say why :laugh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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So I started a new project at work. We're still running on VS2010, but we were planning to upgrade with VS2015. Just my luck that my project started pretty much on the release date of VS2015. I was given a choice, go with all the new tech in VS2015 or stay in the jurassic 2010. I choose 2015. Piece of crap crashes randomly when typing some HTML and Knockout (in a Razor file). I now find myself copy-pasting code to Notepad++, making my changes and copy-pasting it back into VS2015 :sigh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
I had similar experience. I downloaded VS2015 and tried it for a couple of days, faced its sluggish performance, some random crashes, and some weirdnesses of the JS editor, so I reverted back to VS2013. A disappointing experience it was.
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What's the good stuff in 2013? I'm stuck with 2010 and haven't played with anything new in a while.
The two big things that made a difference are: The ability to select a dark theme so that I can have the background in black - takes me back to my speccy days ;). Secondly the ALt-F12 funtionality to peak at a method - it opens a second small split screen under your selection and even allows you to amend the original method. This second ability is a huge time saver where in 2010 you had to navigate away to look at a method you can now see it directly under your code. There are probably lots of other useful features however these two are the two that have so far helped me the most.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So I started a new project at work. We're still running on VS2010, but we were planning to upgrade with VS2015. Just my luck that my project started pretty much on the release date of VS2015. I was given a choice, go with all the new tech in VS2015 or stay in the jurassic 2010. I choose 2015. Piece of crap crashes randomly when typing some HTML and Knockout (in a Razor file). I now find myself copy-pasting code to Notepad++, making my changes and copy-pasting it back into VS2015 :sigh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Sad. I've been using VS2015 even in pre-release and it's been very stable for me, but then I'm not working on web projects (no HTML/knockout etc. for me)... so that may be why you've got a different experience. I will say it feels a bit slower. Not for typing, but a lot of the right click/refactoring style stuff seems to take a little bit longer to display new menus/apply the changes etc.
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I couldn't say right from the top of my head. It's just a better overall experience. I guess intellisense for HTML and JavaScript is a lot better. Editor just works a bit better. There's a few new options. I'm sure you can find some articles comparing version x to version y though. Funny how I like 2013, but I can't really say why :laugh:
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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The two big things that made a difference are: The ability to select a dark theme so that I can have the background in black - takes me back to my speccy days ;). Secondly the ALt-F12 funtionality to peak at a method - it opens a second small split screen under your selection and even allows you to amend the original method. This second ability is a huge time saver where in 2010 you had to navigate away to look at a method you can now see it directly under your code. There are probably lots of other useful features however these two are the two that have so far helped me the most.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
