My boss: add this field to this old form.
Me: open the form, add my field. Now VS crashes. I have to open the form code in a different editor and delete all the code VS added to the form when I opened it in the form editor.
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GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoMe writing my silly little forms apps in silly little VS Pretty drop-down fields :)
My boss: add this field to this old form.
Me: open the form, add my field. Now VS crashes. I have to open the form code in a different editor and delete all the code VS added to the form when I opened it in the form editor.
Oh, so it hasn’t changed since I used VS6 back in the early 2000s (bought at the auto parts market from Russians on an almost transparent CD)
amio@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh, VS is not "little", it's one of the bloatiest pieces of software on earth.
Also, Forms? How dare you. :p
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Once upon a time, a content management system for microsoft.com was a plug in for VS. And also a plug in for Word. And these two plugins had different feature sets, so you had to use both to manage content on microsoft.com. Don’t ask how I know.
blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 year ago
Can confirm. Have had to download the full VS 2022 Pro over a shit wifi connection at work 55GB. It took half a day then failed. Re run the command to recheck every package and get the missing / broken ones and it is a single threaded app so it takes forever computing file hashes on one thread.
In the end it took around 7.5 hours.
PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What workloads did you download fit it to be that big?
blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 year ago
Everything. It’s going on a network not connected to the internet so I don’t want to exclude something and have go through the faff of getting extra bits that end up being needed.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s not so bad in the newer version. The switch x64 and put of process architecture helps a decent amount.
I always have a pretty beefy dev machine though.