Visual Studio Annoyance
Okay, Microsoft, please please please fix this before you put Visual Studio 2005 out.
VS keeps changing project files on me and it’s screwing up my source control. We’re using StarTeam at work and, every time I build, VS changes the types of form and control files in, oh, about half the project files in the solution from “UserControl” or “Form” to “Code”... and then, arbitrarily, back again. This happens even though I haven’t done anything of the sort inside the editor itself… it just happens on solution builds. So then, when I go to StarTeam and try to check in only the files I’ve modified I have to wade through the 30 or so project files that say they’ve changed even though I have changed nothing. WTF(What the fuck)?!?!? Don’t keep erroneously changing the types of those files on solution build! Don’t make it harder for me to do my job!
February 7th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
1. I am so sorry about StarTeam. I have used it and I am not a fan. Perforce was alright but I think I am actually in love with subversion.
2. I am also so sorry about Visual Studio.
I too am currently using VS 2005. I have decided that Web Projects were included as some kind of sick joke. The whole ASP.Net WebForms model is an even sicker joke. The amount of shit that it places into the simplest forms (in the html sense of FORM tags) is rediculous. The overuse of the POST method is also offensive.
And the whole value proposition of “Write less code with Visual Studio 2005” is true not because the required number of lines of code is smaller, but that the required number of lines of code is never reached on schedule.
I think there’s a symbiotic relationship between consulting firms and MS- Crappier VS generates more billable hours. This incentivizes consulting firms to push VS solutions.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:40 am
I just wanted to say that we’re using the released VS2005, and we’re experiencing the same issue on one of our projects. One of the tags keeps changing from “Form” to “Code”. Our source control (we’re using AccuRev, its GOOD) complains, then we revert it (because you can’t exit VS unless you save or cancel all your modifications). If we’re lucky, its during the day that we have to revert, causing VS to go into hysterics about the modification outside of it.
groan its driving us NUTS!