Jelle Druyts

I'm getting extremely pissed at Visual Studio.NET lately. It just keeps bugging me and it keeps getting worse and worse. Furthermore my deadline is getting closer so it's too dangerous to do a full reinstall. So I guess I'll be stuck with the following annoyances for a while:

Debugger

Or "bugger" in short. It looks like the debugger just 'degrades over time'. And now it just seems unstoppable... For instance, I'm trying to set a breakpoint somewhere in a class and Visual Studio opens up another class (with the same name but in another namespace) and tries to set a breakpoint in there. I'm setting a breakpoint in some other class but at runtime it says it cannot break on it because it has no symbols loaded for that class. It does have all the symbols for all other classes in the same project (assembly), but somehow it misses the necessary information for this class. And just now I had to do a hard reset of my pc because the debugger crashed on an Internet Explorer window. No rescue possible, even though it's a Windows 2000 box which can usually recover pretty well from a crash. *sigh*

Compilation Error

Quite often (but randomly) when I run my ASP.NET project, I get a compilation error saying that some random referenced library could not be loaded:

BC31011: Unable to load referenced library 'c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\temporary asp.net files\webroot\dfead88a\73139fa7\assembly\dl2\3a9f7923\5959d15f_b1fec201\ library.dll': Access denied.

I don't get this; this is a shadowcopy folder managed by ASP.NET and it can't use it properly? I'm hoping it's because this is still .NET 1.1 RC2 but I'm losing so much time killing the aspnet_wp.exe process over and over to get this running. *sigh*

I just restored all .NET content for this web to use ASP.NET 1.0 (which means associating each .NET extension in IIS within the project with the older isapi filter) and so far I haven't gotten the error yet... Keeping my fingers crossed.

Find In Files

Just something I noticed today: I'm searching in files, all project files, all searchable files, whatever, but it seems to keep forgetting to search the root folder of my project. It finds everything in the subfolders but it just completely ignores the root. *sigh*