I'm going to have to spend a little time repairing my primary development environment, so figured I'd issue another silent update to v3.99.35. This one self-describes itself as v3.99.36, at least partially. An official v3.99.36 (or v3.99.37) release is coming shortly as well, after the build system maintenance and after a bit more work. I've got a lot accomplished tonight already. I'm going to try to keep my stride. This build system problem, which I won't go into detail (VS2010 is a buggy POS), is just a distraction when I was on a roll.
I swear, I wish I would have never switched to VS2010 in v4. In fact, I ended up having to revert to the older CRT anyway to preserve XP pre-SP2 compatibility ;o. The IDE is nice, but dead slow even on modern hardware. This sudden bug is just... inexplicable. To have to waste time either tracking down the cause, or (first) attempting a reinstall is just annoying. How it could just start I have no idea. No, it wasn't because of anything I did. It has simply mis-configured my solution in a way that results in a blank resource view, despite some 70 projects in the solution. That should never be allowed to occur.
Microsoft: Come on guys, you know what I say about VS2010 is true -- you use it. I'll make a deal with you: You get a service release for VS2010 out, and I'll get PL v4 out. Let's fix the world up together ;). I *do* appreciate your ambitions with VS2010, but something is off on the implementation. You need more optimizations and more safety catches, or something.
This is, at least, a reminder of what can happen when even a good upgrade is released before it has been fully tested. Version 4 brings a lot of cool things, but it isn't worth the upgrade until it has been through proper QA.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Build system maintenance, issuing another silent replacement of v3.99.35
Posted on 01:58 by Unknown
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