VS2017 looks like a clown factory

realJSOP

What's up with all the clown car crap going on in the editor? Every time I move the cursor, the editor lights up like room full of freakin clown noses. There's so much going on that it's hugely distracting.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

raddevus

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Every time I move the cursor, the editor lights up

EDIT - I came back because I thought OP said 2019. 2017 never had these features for me, but 2019 does and has all kinds of popups. I think OP meant 2019?? I just downloaded and installed it EDIT #### (2019)#### and tried it out too. It really is over the top. Check this one out (png) https://i.stack.imgur.com/yw6zj.png[^] It says, "Light Bulbs like this..." But that is a screwdriver. ???:confused: And stuff is popping up all over the editor. It has git comments and stuff that pop up in there. Well, now to find how to turn this stuff off. These features are the sign of someone who doesn't really understand VStudio who has read a list of features that devs want and has directed their addition. For example, I've often wanted to know the diff on a file in studio when it tells me something has changed, but not like this. Let me just click a button to see it, don't pop it up every time I move the cursor.

HobbyProggy

Yeah, it's like they put VS / ReSharper and Git into one programm to totally fk you up!

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ZurdoDev

I must be doing something wrong. It works great for me. Then again, I'm left handed so I'm used to being different.

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Lost User

Some of these things have a "don't show this again" option, and others you have to go into some rules or settings to turn them off. But it's like swotting flies, as soon as you whack one a couple more turn up. Dunno who'se behind this crap, but seems the evelotion of vs goes something like: vs2010 - do a few things but do them pretty well vs2013 - do a more then a few things, but some only averagely vs2015 - do even more things, ran out of time (2017 came up) so left half done vs2017 - do a boat load of stuff but only half- assed, don't fix anything, just add even more vs2019 - pre-releases / announcements indicate goal is to find out how much that puppy will hold oh, vscode starting to go down the same path, ... I tried it, I really tried hard, nah. I'm sure it'll be fine for the hobby devs and some juniors, but for serous work, nah. When you want a "Swiss army knife" you buy the real thing, not some knockoff. ms and multi-os-multi-language, heck just ms and linux - again maybe fine for beginners but not for anyone with proper ability.

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Mark_Wallace

Hey, you were warned that the ms designers and devs who made travesties of windows and ms office would be "working their magic" on VS, so don't sound surprised that it's started turning to sh1t. And it will get worse before it gets and never get better.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

raddevus

Mark_Wallace wrote:

And it will get worse before it gets and never get better.

But now, it works on your phone! Sqeeeeee!!! :laugh: And it works especially great on your win10 Phone (which doesn't exist)*. It works best on phones that do not exist. :rolleyes: *Official No-Prize is up for grabs for the first life-form who replies with, "Win10 phone exists, I'm posting to CP with it right now." :laugh:

RickZeeland

Quote:

Ha! Ha! Said the clown, has the king lost his crown Is the night being tight on romance Ha! Ha! Said the clown, is it bringing you down That you've lost your chance

:-\

kmoorevs

raddevus wrote:

win10 Phone (which doesn't exist)

Mine still works fine. :laugh: Any others here?

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

dandy72

*Raises hand* Yes, and unlike all of my Android devices, it still gets regularly patched, despite being "dead" (and Android supposedly leading).

dandy72

ZurdoDev wrote:

Then again, I'm left handed so I'm used to being different.

Is that like a vegan thing? Never missing an opportunity to tell others...?

ZurdoDev

dandy72 wrote:

Never missing an opportunity to tell others...?

Ya, come here and I'll show ya! :mad:

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

Tom Deketelaere

Up untill a month ago I was still using a win 8.1 phone. It finally died after 5 years so was forced to buy a new phone ...

Tom

realJSOP

I ain't sayin' it doesn't work - I'm sayin' it's like crap on a cracker as delivered. I'll be playing settings whack-a-mole for a few days, trying to get it so it can't be seen from space.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

ZurdoDev

And I meant I haven't changed any settings and it works great for me. I see a few light bulbs here and there but nothing that bothers me. Maybe if you wrote better code it wouldn't suggest so much? ;)

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

kmoorevs

I have it (VS 2017) installed but rarely use it as VS 2010 still handles most of my needs, is stable and starts blazingly fast...and to think, I'm missing out on all these new features! :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

raddevus

kmoorevs wrote:

Mine still works fine.

We have our official No-Prize Winner! We have your details and if you are reading this it is too late to cancel shipment. :laugh:

raddevus

RickZeeland wrote:

Ha! Ha! Said the clown, has the king lost his crown...

What programming language is that? Haiku-thon? Visual Basipoetry?

raddevus

Oh, wait, I think he meant 2019. I didn't even notice either, but I was using 2017 with none of this and it is only since I installed 2019 that I see this junk. Oops, he posted 2017 and I followed along thinking 2019, 2019, 2019.... :sigh:

raddevus

OP said 2017 but I read it as 2019 because I just installed 2019 and it has those annoying popup features. I think he meant 2019. I had used 2017 for many months and it doesn't have those popups. I think OP just said wrong version?? :confused: