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My 3 Pet Peeves with Visual Studio 2003

I know there are probably a lot more I could come up with, but these are my top 3 that I really hope Microsoft have fixed/resolved in Visual Studio 2005.


1. Why oh why when you open a solution with multiple projects, including a handful of setup projects does VS feel like it has to expand all of the setup projects? It doesn't do it with any other project type. No matter what I do it ALWAYS expands them.


2. Pinning the toolbox on some/most occasions hangs VS, the only resolution is to 'End Task'. Has this ever been fixed? Why does it always seem to happen when I REALLY don't want it to? Does VS have some built in sick sense of humour??


3. Opening some/most help items from the index takes forever. Normally I have time to make a coffee and come back to my desk before it's opened. This can't be related to the performance of the machine either as it took the same time on my old PC as it does on my new one. Anyone know of a resolution to this? Resolved (see below)


Argh!

Comments

 

Rik Hemsley said:

Perhaps your virus scanner is scanning .htm files? This made help extremely slow for me.
September 14, 2005 1:49 PM
 

Kevin Gearing said:

Hi Rik,

Aha! You know I never thought about that. Normally I'm the first to blame the scanner, but it didn't even enter my head that it might be the problem.

Thanks!

Ok, 2 left to resolve :-)
September 14, 2005 2:30 PM
 

Martyn Fewtrell said:

You could of course move over to 2005 which is a real breath of fresh air!!!!!
June 23, 2006 12:18 PM

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