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You are clearly a troll who has either A) Spent no time using VS in real life or B) well...see A

seanmcdirmid 14y ago
It could be related to what he's working on and the tool chain he's using. If you venture out of the box, you can have a very different VS experience. I use C# + nothing else, so everything is very stable for me (occasionally I encounter bugs). Really, Eclipse is the same way (if you don't add any extra plugins, it works very very well!).
gouranga 14y ago
Indeed I'm trolling so bad because I've only clocked approximately 18000 hours of using it in real life since the first beta drop of VS.Net 2002 to 22:15 this evening... Yes that's really three zeroes rounded down heavily (8 hours a day, 23 days a month, 12 months a year for 10 years)...
- keithwarren 14y ago
  Being that there was never a VS.Net 2002...It was merely Visual Studio.NET But I digress. Even if I assume honesty from you, what does it say about you that you would use a tool for 18K hours and then berate it in such a way because you had a bad day today? I have been using VS in its various forms since 1995 and while it can be buggy and can crash - it is still a venerable tool. I use XCode, MonoDevlop, RubyMine and Eclipse as well and they all have problems. Claiming VS is 'seriously unreliable' basically makes people ignore everything you say after that because millions of people know better. Crash yes, on occasion...unreliable is different.
  - gouranga 14y ago
    It is referred to as VS.Net 2002 after VS.Net 2003 came out with .Net 1.1 if you want to be pendantic. If you really want to be pedantic, Visual Studio .Net 7.0. It's not just today - it's been 10 years of hell. Unfortunately it pays the bills (just about). It's not venerable tool. It's like sitting in front of a pressing machine that pokes you in the eye once an hour, but not quite enough to do you serious damage. I've been poked in the eye 18,000 times.

It could be related to what he's working on and the tool chain he's using. If you venture out of the box, you can have a very different VS experience. I use C# + nothing else, so everything is very stable for me (occasionally I encounter bugs). Really, Eclipse is the same way (if you don't add any extra plugins, it works very very well!).

gouranga 14y ago

Indeed I'm trolling so bad because I've only clocked approximately 18000 hours of using it in real life since the first beta drop of VS.Net 2002 to 22:15 this evening... Yes that's really three zeroes rounded down heavily (8 hours a day, 23 days a month, 12 months a year for 10 years)...

keithwarren 14y ago
Being that there was never a VS.Net 2002...It was merely Visual Studio.NET But I digress. Even if I assume honesty from you, what does it say about you that you would use a tool for 18K hours and then berate it in such a way because you had a bad day today? I have been using VS in its various forms since 1995 and while it can be buggy and can crash - it is still a venerable tool. I use XCode, MonoDevlop, RubyMine and Eclipse as well and they all have problems. Claiming VS is 'seriously unreliable' basically makes people ignore everything you say after that because millions of people know better. Crash yes, on occasion...unreliable is different.
- gouranga 14y ago
  It is referred to as VS.Net 2002 after VS.Net 2003 came out with .Net 1.1 if you want to be pendantic. If you really want to be pedantic, Visual Studio .Net 7.0. It's not just today - it's been 10 years of hell. Unfortunately it pays the bills (just about). It's not venerable tool. It's like sitting in front of a pressing machine that pokes you in the eye once an hour, but not quite enough to do you serious damage. I've been poked in the eye 18,000 times.