I haven't been blogging because I've been sick with this flu from hell since...oh...about a month ago around the superbowl. Needless to say my free time these days is spent either sleeping or coughing. In fact, I think I cough in my sleep now. Anyway, I can sum up my .NET experience over the last month or so in about 3 words: upsetting dialog boxes. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a few...
How does this happen? Here's an example, Today I created a new project (class lib) that our app will be calling into, so will future apps. I created 3 or so classes and started to add a 4th which is going to be an abstract base class named "Manager." The problem is, I initially gave it a different name and decided to change it. I decided to change it manually because the refactoring "feature" in VS 2005 is very slow and always ends in tears for me. But, when you change the name of a CS file, the refactoring engine kicks on, and so it it did. It ran for about 5 minutes and ended with this...
Not too shocked, I see this ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME. Yet another reason I don't use refactoring and keep waiting for JetBrains to RTM ReSharper 2.0.
Moving right along, I decided to manually change the name of the class to "Manager." Everything was going well, until I got to the class itself to rename it to manager (after manually changing all of the referring code). As soon as I changed the name of the class and tried to use the down arrow key to start typing...HOURGLASS! VS HANGS!
Maybe I can feel more positve about this stuff when I'm not sick, but today I feel like the day just isn't long enough for this kind of crap.
