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TrackBack — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:38:00 GMT

re: MS Responded to Yesterday's Post with Another Work-Around

Steve Hall — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:51:00 GMT

Meanwhile, Paschal has reported a request for a VS2005 Beta 3 has been officially posted on the Feedback Center:

http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2005/08/12/422314.aspx

I voted for it, so that they can get the web project file feature "done right the fourth time"...

re: MS Responded to Yesterday's Post with Another Work-Around

Steve Hall — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:19:00 GMT

Boy, that sure looks a bit kludgey!

Mewonders if they actually changed the COMPILER to do this... Being an ol' compiler hacker, I get to say: EEEeeewwww!

It would have been easier to implement this as a post-build rule. Maybe that's what they really meant. (But then...wouldn't that require a project file to store such a post-build rule?)

Regardless, this might be workable. The only side-effect is that any other tools that have to look at the target folder (that contains these new .refresh files) will now have to ignore them in some instances.

And here I thought they had sorta promised to restore the project file in whole, not just partial-functionally. Guess they're going to kludge the tools for the advanced and enterprise developers and instead favor the beginners... Sad! (They claim to be listening, but are losing parts of the message during translation by some program manager or project manager. I'm sure they'll rationalize this "do it right the third time" development technique as "lack of resources"...calling their software developers "resources" once again.)