I've got Visual Studio 2010 up and running both at work and at home, and so far it's been pretty smooth. A few things that I ran across that I don't particularly care for, but have made a workaround for:
You can't use the standard FixedSys font in the editor. Because it's using WPF, it can't use old fonts like FixedSys. The solution is to pick up this TTF replacement. It's the best one out there.
I like a dark environment, complete with a black background and a bunch of highlights, especially for comments and literal strings. Apparently, Microsoft doesn't. They make the background of anything that's not the background of the page translucent, resulting in a darker color when seen against a black background. Further, multiple lines with background colors aren't filled in, leaving annoying-looking, thin black lines between each and every line of text that has a highlight in it. This is fail. Fortunately, this fix takes care of both.
I've begun working on getting all of my code into Visual Studio 2010, although the C++ projects are going to prove a little more painful, possibly more so than they are worth. Cent and Constellation may have to remain on 2008 until I can figure out a way to get them working again.
But so far, 2010 kicks ass. Code Analysis is fun to play with, and reducing all my VB.Net properties to one line is just delicious. I'm not going to go to the .Net 4.0 Framework just yet, although that is indeed the next logical step, and with luck it will come possibly next week.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212