Predator !

I would say that not being able to use VS2010 until I installed the hotfix after installing SP1 is "important" This articles discusses it as well http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2011/03/11/developers-react-to-visual-studio-2010-sp1.aspx[^] Also, I find it very frustrating that on a daily basis VS2010 runs out of memory and I to close and reopen my solutions. Also, there is still a known bug when queueing builds on build servers if you have more than one build server.

But what was even worse, they had to release a hot fix for SP1 as it caused more issues than it fixed !! #VisualStudio2010WorstEver

Did I read it wrong but it looks the the "c_" variable will always be true

10 years ago I worked for a very large global company (no names on here) in my sandwich course year. The first month was hell as I was literally doing nothing, absolutely nothing. My manager was a different site and found it difficult to manage me remotely as he was often in meetings or busy with his own work. I was a nervous 21 year old and decided to do something about it and looked around at the rest of the team and what they were doing - project management. I arranged a one-to-one with my manager and explained that so far, it wasn't working. Rather than wait for him to suggest an alternative and I told him what I thought I could do for the remaining 11 months. I decided I wanted to shadow/help/work with the project managers in the team I sat with. Because I had already spoken to them, and they agreed I was able to spend the next 11 months learning some invaluable skills. Although I am now a developer, it taught me what projects manager have to do, and what they need to get from the developers they work with. There is no doubt about it, the experience made me a better developer. Further, actually having the balls to speak up taught me something more important, stand up for yourself, make yourself counted, make what you want, happen. So your product isn't used. So what. Did you learn anything from it - e.g. new development technique, new way of coding perhaps? What would you differently if you had to do it again? Look around you, what else is everyone doing that can give you more knowledge? What else could you be doing? What else do you want to learn before your year is out? 100% you need to speak to your manager, but rather than say that you are not happy, offer an alternative about what you could do instead. It's up to you to make it happen

We've outsourced some of our dev work, everytime they do something we have to check it because they keep on making mistakes..... ...when testing a change one of the developers made I noticed that the expected change didn't happen. He said to me it should work, and he's created a unit test to test the change works... ...I then looked at his unit test: if (order.Allocations[0].TriPartyEligibilityCriteria != null) { Assert.IsTrue(order.Allocations[0].TriPartyEligibilityCriteria.Length > 0); } I had to walk him through this to explain to him just why his test was bad, very bad indeed and it took me over an hour to explain why that was bad and what he should have done instead! The amount of time we spend inspecting their code and refactoring makes this whole outsourcing exercise a joke