TRUE, True, true, and FALSE, False, false

Friday, December 7, 2007

I'm just in rant mode the last few days, trying to get my head wrapped about 3000 posts by Oren (who just happens to be an android and takes his orders from his dog) and 3000 posts on the altnetconf mailing list in the last 30 days (yes, 100 new messages a day and so many blog entries to come, somehow...)

However this is just plain rude:

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This is the XML "Intellisense" in Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Yeah, 6 definitions of True and False.

Let me qualify this post which I should have done in the first place. This screenshot was for an XML file in SharePoint and the options presented in Intellisense are completely driven by your XSD. So really my brain wasn't working yesterday when I blamed the IDE for this as it's only as dumb as it can be told.

However, I guess if I was building the tool and the attribute was a boolean value I would only present two options "True" and "False" so maybe it is a deficiency of the IDE.

Or the XSD.

Or SharePoint.

Or me.

All of the above? Yeah, probably.

5 Comments

reminds me of that scene in "Singing in the Rain" where the audio gets off track with the video: "no, no, no", "yes, yes, yes"!

jeff doolittle - Thursday, December 6, 2007 9:53:59 PM

That is only incorrect behaviour if your property isn't case sensitive...

Jamie - Friday, December 7, 2007 4:40:31 AM

There's obviously something wrong with your XSDs - I only get "true" or "false".

RichardD - Friday, December 7, 2007 5:45:48 AM

Me, too, I only get the lowercase options. Though in VS2005 I used to only get the True and False options (capital first letter).

Brett - Friday, December 7, 2007 7:00:00 AM

Yet another reason not to do any SharePoint development.

Steve O - Monday, December 10, 2007 3:17:01 PM

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