Kevin Dente's Blog

The Blip in the Noise
Visual Studio 2005 oopsie

I was working in Visual Studio 2005 the other day, and noticed something in a dialog box that I’ve seen a hundred (maybe a thousand) times before, and never noticed. It was in the “Add New Item” dialog:

Dialog

Notice anything? I’ll give you hint:

DialogSection

See it? How about now:

Word

After over a year of beta testing, thousands of bug reports, many person-years of development – I have to chuckle that something so simple slipped through. Totally minor, but it made me laugh.

 

 

Published Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:40 PM by kevindente

Filed under:

Comments

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:53 AM

Did you also notice that "Class" is listed twice?

Steve Kaschimer

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:58 AM

So's HTML Page.

Brendan G

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:27 AM

First time I notice that :-) I guess that is how easily it slipped through, it is our mind playing tricks with us. Our brain makes us read the beginning and end letters so our brain tells us that it says "definition".

Gabriel Lozano-Morán

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:39 AM

So strange, i don't have this on my VS.

I have "An empty class declaration".

Fatoux Nicolas

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:55 AM

have also "declaration" and not definition

preishuber

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:21 AM

"An empty class declaration" is the other class in the list.

I have both the 2 classes, the definiton and the declaration.

I think that in this case, our brains go further that than just "fixing" the words. The text that appears there add nothing significant in the ones I looked at, so we don't even see it at all. ;)

AndrewSeven

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:24 AM

I use this everyday and i have never noticed it.  I am not sure i have ever even read that before.

Ben

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:24 AM

That's odd. In my VS2005 it's actually spelled correctly!

(version 8.0.50727.42)

Boris Yeltsin

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:05 AM

The two "Class" and "HTML Items" are actually slightly different. My guess is that one comes from the Visual C# templates, and the other comes from the Visual Web Developer templates.

kevindente

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:05 AM

Boris,

Curious. Are you running the US English version?

kevindente

# re: Visual Studio 2005 oopsie@ Friday, August 11, 2006 11:37 AM

Kevin, I believe you need to upgrade or stop playing with the registry ;-)

Albert Pascual