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  • J jackbrownii

    Am I the only one that just double clicks on the .sln I want to work with and never open a blank Visual Studio instance?

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    obermd
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    jackbrownii wrote:

    Am I the only one that just double clicks on the .sln I want to work with and never open a blank Visual Studio instance?

    Never start new projects do you?

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    • K Kevin Marois

      Marvelous.. Every time I see some new "feature" like this, I wonder what moron at MS decided this was a good idea

      If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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      I wonder what moron at MS decided this was a good idea

      This might be a trigger for some, but MS seems to put the lesser lights in charge (probably to reduce labor costs) of projects, which eliminates to wiser, more experienced minds that used to manage products and projects and lead software development. My lead example of this is that 30 years ago, we had a WinForms designer in the VB IDE that worked beautifully. And so it did going forward through the advent of .NET and Visual Studio. Yet today's "brain trust" at MS says it is too hard to make a XAML designer work as well as the WinForms designer that was once written in assembler! Maybe MS needs to hire adults and not wannabes to lead their product development and software development.

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      • K Kevin Marois

        Marvelous.. Every time I see some new "feature" like this, I wonder what moron at MS decided this was a good idea

        If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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        patbob
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        Kevin Marois wrote:

        Every time I see some new "feature" like this, I wonder what moron at MS decided this was a good idea

        The one that decided that since they had some spare developer cycles, they should fix something that wasn't broke, instead of something that was.

        I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.

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        • J Johnny J

          How do you turn it off? :confused:

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          Stepan Hakobyan
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          Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Startup -> On startup, open: "Empty environment"

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          • M Mark_Wallace

            Kevin Marois wrote:

            Everything you need when you open VS is right there in one place.

            I don't need "Everything right there in one place" when I open VS. I need VS to open twice as fast, with no fuss and kerfuffle, and just give me a menu item I can click, and then select the project I want to open. I don't want fireworks displays; I want functionality.

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

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            Mario Luis
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            I love the right click context menu on the vs icon if you add it to your toolbar shortcuts. It lists all my latest opened projects so its two clicks ( right , then left selection ) and I'm right where I want to be from OS to code.

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            • K Kevin Marois

              Anyone using VS2019? I saw that absurd modal Stary Window and thought "WTF:confused::confused:????" Is there any way to turn that off? I use the VS2017 Start Page all the time. is that gone now?

              If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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              KateAshman
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              What actually is the start page? I use VS everyday and I can only guess what this is all about. Is it the "open a project" window you see when opening VS? If so, I don't get it. That window never opens when you pin projects and it's actually quite handy to clone projects with.

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              • M Mario Luis

                I love the right click context menu on the vs icon if you add it to your toolbar shortcuts. It lists all my latest opened projects so its two clicks ( right , then left selection ) and I'm right where I want to be from OS to code.

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                Mark_Wallace
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                Someone must have snuck that in while the boss wasn't looking.

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

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                • K Kevin Marois

                  But you have to navigate to it first. The Start Page has it right there in front of you. I'm working on a app thatg has 5 solutions. I open 5 VS instances, then go to the start page of each, click the link, and I'm in business. No navigating all over to find what .SLN(s) I need.

                  If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                  jackbrownii
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                  In my case, navigating to the project folder where the .sln resides is fine. All the non-VS stuff I need for the project will be in the same region.

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                  • O obermd

                    jackbrownii wrote:

                    Am I the only one that just double clicks on the .sln I want to work with and never open a blank Visual Studio instance?

                    Never start new projects do you?

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                    jackbrownii
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                    Not very often, no. More of my work is done with stuff to run on CNCs. A few long running C# projects, but, few new one.s

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