I'd kind of agree. It definitely starts faster than VS 2017, and feels a bit snappier in use. Beyond that it's not very different. One good thing about it.. There are a LOT of bugs (regressions) that Microsoft caused in the C++ compiler from VS 2017 update 8 onwards that are either unfixed in the latest VS 2017 compiler (15.9.12) that are fixed in VS 2019. That said apparently MS are working to push another VS 2017 update in July to fix up all the stuff that VS 15.8 broken in C++ - and there are some significant bugs there!

Not exactly the same boat but Comodo has a similar facility (on by default in Comodo 10) that examines scripts (e.g. ones to run regsvr32 for COM components etc) that are generated on the fly by the compiler toolchain and run. It's one of the few parts of Comodo without fine grained controls, so I have to turn that section of CIS 10 off while developing.

Not sure about what you are talking of, but, for most of us, you become a fan of whatever technology (in my case C++) lets you be most productive.

All 3 of the John Robbins debugging books have been hugely helpful and influential for me. (Debugging Applications, Debugging Applications for Microsoft .Net and Microsoft Windows and Debugging Microsoft .Net 2 applications). All 3 though dated in areas, are amazingly useful and should be read start to finish. The amount of time you can save.... I'd also recommend Code Complete. I'd also recommend K & R for C fundamentals. Last but not least the Mark Russinovich Internals books about Windows. Incredibly useful.

I don't know exactly what's going on, but I've found FF 50 and 51 beta much less stable and more crash prone than 49 was...

I had similar on my Lenovo Z50, but it was much worse with the RTM release 10240 in Summer 2015. (It used to occur maybe once every 1-2 hours) Upgrading the NVIDIA and Intel (dual graphics card) drivers have almost completely cured the problem both on the RTM release and then when it re-appeared with AE.

I use Avast on some of the Windows 10 machines and Comodo Internet Security 8.4 and 10 (beta) on some of them (all build 14393 ie. 1607). All work well for me.

I've had serious problems with Windows 10 going crazy on some builds, especially with a task scheduled process rundll.exe aeinv.dll swallowing huge amounts of memory cpu and disk. This I think is fixed in the cumulative update that came out last week. Install that first, that may well help. My machine is behaving much better since then.

I agree. Strong typing, although initially confusing when first encountered makes for a clearer understanding of things in the long term. It's also easier to temporarily unlearn it for scripting languages, than to go the otherway around.

Personally I've had good (free) results with Avast. Comodo is also very good, but needs tuning and is better for advanced-expert level users. Whatever you choose, you owe it to yourself to install a tiny program called unchecky that prevents most potentially unwanted programs (toolbars etc) getting on the PC in the 1st place. It's seriously clever. Links: Unchecky - Keeps your checkboxes clear[^]

Are there any more details on this? Mike

Flash 19 64 bit works well with 64 bit Firefox. I'm running 64 bit Firefox 40.0.02 with Flash 19.0.0.162 (a beta build) and it works well for video etc (it runs under the control of plugin-container.exe). It's been stable for me for months now on Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows 10 systems.

By the way, release notes for VS 2012 Update 5 are at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3072098[^]

Hi Bill I'd been wondering the same? "Is it just a less restricted version of Express". But Microsoft themselves have confirmed it's basically "Professional". To quote: "Q: How does Visual Studio Community 2013 compare to other Visual Studio editions? A: Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the great functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013, designed and optimized for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams." Look at the Q&A section on: http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs[^]

I used it for a while years ago at college and Uni. Horrible language in my opinion that seemed pretty pointless. Other languages seem to do list processing quite well these days now anyway. LISP was incredibly hard to read.

Totally agree with you - I only live about 5 miles from Balcombe, and am really hacked off with the protestors, many of whom seem to be NIMBYs and rentaprotestors, plus don't even know much about the facts behind what they are protesting against.

I'd suggest a few things: 1) It sounds like you're best off scanning from a non-Windows boot environment - you may have a rootkit. I'd recommend Kasperspy's free rescue disk. It's a Linux boot disk that boots up Linux and scans your Windows system - because it's not Windows, the scanner itself can't be affected by any malware. Download it and burn it using a clean pc: http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk[^] 2) Once disinfected, I'd recommend installing and running MalwareBytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org/[^] 3) Once clean, I'd personally recommend using Comodo as your AntiVirus. I've tried AVG, Avast, Avira, MSE and found it better than all. It uses whitelisting, i.e. it assumes software is hostile, until it knows otherwise, or you tell it otherwise. It's had rave reviews and I've found it lightweight and effective: http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-internet-security.php[^] Hope this helps, Mike

The firm I work for uses Coverity at some sites, but not at others - e.g. the UK office I'm based at. I know Coverity (in particular) and Klockwork are good, but are massively expensive - typically 6 figures for us, annually, because of the annual licensing arrangements (the analysis work is done by (remote) servers and cost is roughly proportional to codebase size). At our UK site and in some of our other sites we use Gimpel Software's PC Lint, which I love, and is much much less expensive and is a one time low cost option, that enables every developer to analyse on their local machine. Mike

It's failed 2 or 3 big name tests recently.... http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/379756/microsoft-security-essentials-flunks-another-antivirus-test

Disclaimer - I'm one of their beta testers for MSE (Microsoft Connect). Up until VERY recently I'd have said "Yes - use MSE, it's light, simple and effective". But with the recent poor results of it and how little attention they actually spare on it on their beta forums, I'd say it's time to move away from it quickly. I'd suggest Avast - it's simple, efficient and effective. I love the new Comodo 6.0 - but it's definitely orientated/best suited to power users. Very effective but you need to know what you're doing - not suitable for everyone. Mike