How much time?
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:):)Hallo, During the last week I run into numerious problems using sql server express, asp.net and other Microsoft related problems. This is why I would like to know: How much time do you spend dealing with Microsoft bugs, annoyances from Microsoft? Like said. In the last view weeks I spend at least a view hours per day with Microsoft. My favorites: In my asp.net application loadpage event fires up to 5 times. Sql Server 2005 prerelease mdf files are not compatible with the release. Express manager does not work with the pre release, The ASP.NET tab in MMC IIS disappears after deinstalling beta 1 and installing beta 2. No surface manager for prerelease, Configuration hell in the new IIS, security hell on windows 2003 server e.t.c. Microsoft and especially .net is not funny anymore. It wastes my time and my nerves. Or, Am I too stupid? Am I the only one with such problems every day? Sincerely Chris :) Vietiane / Laos (PDR) I am not a native English speaker. Please forgive my bad English!
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:):)Hallo, During the last week I run into numerious problems using sql server express, asp.net and other Microsoft related problems. This is why I would like to know: How much time do you spend dealing with Microsoft bugs, annoyances from Microsoft? Like said. In the last view weeks I spend at least a view hours per day with Microsoft. My favorites: In my asp.net application loadpage event fires up to 5 times. Sql Server 2005 prerelease mdf files are not compatible with the release. Express manager does not work with the pre release, The ASP.NET tab in MMC IIS disappears after deinstalling beta 1 and installing beta 2. No surface manager for prerelease, Configuration hell in the new IIS, security hell on windows 2003 server e.t.c. Microsoft and especially .net is not funny anymore. It wastes my time and my nerves. Or, Am I too stupid? Am I the only one with such problems every day? Sincerely Chris :) Vietiane / Laos (PDR) I am not a native English speaker. Please forgive my bad English!
dl4gbe wrote:
How much time do you spend dealing with Microsoft bugs, annoyances from Microsoft?
Very little. When I think I am wasting time on annoyances it ususally turns out that it is because I don't know much about that area and it is my lack of knowledge about how it is supposed to work. Once I understand it, everything goes smoothly. My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucius
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:):)Hallo, During the last week I run into numerious problems using sql server express, asp.net and other Microsoft related problems. This is why I would like to know: How much time do you spend dealing with Microsoft bugs, annoyances from Microsoft? Like said. In the last view weeks I spend at least a view hours per day with Microsoft. My favorites: In my asp.net application loadpage event fires up to 5 times. Sql Server 2005 prerelease mdf files are not compatible with the release. Express manager does not work with the pre release, The ASP.NET tab in MMC IIS disappears after deinstalling beta 1 and installing beta 2. No surface manager for prerelease, Configuration hell in the new IIS, security hell on windows 2003 server e.t.c. Microsoft and especially .net is not funny anymore. It wastes my time and my nerves. Or, Am I too stupid? Am I the only one with such problems every day? Sincerely Chris :) Vietiane / Laos (PDR) I am not a native English speaker. Please forgive my bad English!
Actually, quite a lot of time! But most of this increase has been due to the beta software. On each new offical release version of VS, I usually put in a few hundred hours total chasing down the current bugs and work-arounds. Once I have most of them under my belt, I am usually pretty much good-to-go for the next year or two without too many problems. The beta stuff though it is expected. One of my biggest time wasters is trying to make web sites cross-browser compatible with is nothing show of a huge nightmare from whence I cannot seem to awake! ;) Really the CSS standard box model completely sucks and should have been thrown away in favor of Microsoft's interpretation years ago. That one thing would have saved me more time than I have spent in the last decade on MS tools! Not to mention other quirks. Rocky <>< Latest Post: SQL2005 Server Managemnet Studio timeouts! Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]
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:):)Hallo, During the last week I run into numerious problems using sql server express, asp.net and other Microsoft related problems. This is why I would like to know: How much time do you spend dealing with Microsoft bugs, annoyances from Microsoft? Like said. In the last view weeks I spend at least a view hours per day with Microsoft. My favorites: In my asp.net application loadpage event fires up to 5 times. Sql Server 2005 prerelease mdf files are not compatible with the release. Express manager does not work with the pre release, The ASP.NET tab in MMC IIS disappears after deinstalling beta 1 and installing beta 2. No surface manager for prerelease, Configuration hell in the new IIS, security hell on windows 2003 server e.t.c. Microsoft and especially .net is not funny anymore. It wastes my time and my nerves. Or, Am I too stupid? Am I the only one with such problems every day? Sincerely Chris :) Vietiane / Laos (PDR) I am not a native English speaker. Please forgive my bad English!
Not so much bugs, as undocumented and unexpected behaviour...but that's the price we pay for working in an area (Visual Studio Extensibility) which is not particularly well documented, and for supporting integration with multiple versions of Visual Studio. I spent nearly half a day this week trying to work out why our code for reading the include folder configuration was failing with Visual Studio 2005 RTM (it works fine with 2002 and 2003, and is the documented method). The results were surprising, to say the least. X| But at least I got it working in the end. I'm sure other people have tripped up over this one, so there's a blog entry coming on the subject. :) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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:):)Hallo, During the last week I run into numerious problems using sql server express, asp.net and other Microsoft related problems. This is why I would like to know: How much time do you spend dealing with Microsoft bugs, annoyances from Microsoft? Like said. In the last view weeks I spend at least a view hours per day with Microsoft. My favorites: In my asp.net application loadpage event fires up to 5 times. Sql Server 2005 prerelease mdf files are not compatible with the release. Express manager does not work with the pre release, The ASP.NET tab in MMC IIS disappears after deinstalling beta 1 and installing beta 2. No surface manager for prerelease, Configuration hell in the new IIS, security hell on windows 2003 server e.t.c. Microsoft and especially .net is not funny anymore. It wastes my time and my nerves. Or, Am I too stupid? Am I the only one with such problems every day? Sincerely Chris :) Vietiane / Laos (PDR) I am not a native English speaker. Please forgive my bad English!
You're using pre-release and beta products. What do you expect? cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Not so much bugs, as undocumented and unexpected behaviour...but that's the price we pay for working in an area (Visual Studio Extensibility) which is not particularly well documented, and for supporting integration with multiple versions of Visual Studio. I spent nearly half a day this week trying to work out why our code for reading the include folder configuration was failing with Visual Studio 2005 RTM (it works fine with 2002 and 2003, and is the documented method). The results were surprising, to say the least. X| But at least I got it working in the end. I'm sure other people have tripped up over this one, so there's a blog entry coming on the subject. :) Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Not so much bugs, as undocumented and unexpected behaviour
I have to agree. Just funny behaviors from time to time, and just learn to work around them. Happy New Year to all! Paul
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You're using pre-release and beta products. What do you expect? cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Actually we spend just as much time working round quirks and unexpected limitations in the release versions of the products! :doh: Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.