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My team immediately started using Visual Studio 2010 after it’s release in April. We were waiting early for Silverlight 4 which was a component of the release, so we switched IDE’s right away. I like the feature set very much, but the performance is subpar and plain awful in some areas. I am running Resharper 5.1 EAP (nightly builds). 5.0 had a number of issues and several performance problems. I upgraded to 5.1 after reading this thread on JetBrain’s forum. It’s hard to tell whether the performance issues are caused by the core IDE or Resharper, but there seems...
I had a pretty rough week attempting to get the Oracle client installed on my Windows 7 – 64bit machine. I’m going resist the temptation to throw stones, but let’s just say it was a frustrating week. Today I went to the Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 to do some work with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. When attempting to connect the designer to my local SQL Server, I immediately received this An unexpected error occurred in the Oracle Data Provider for .NET. Please contact the provider vendor to resolve this problem. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh ...
From time to time, my status bar disappears. I used to believe this was due to a botched install or add-in. I recently upgraded to Team System Test Edition, and my status bar again disappeared. For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out a time to do a full reinstall. Today, I discovered this is a setting in Visual Studio (duh). So, if you see this: and you can’t figure out how to get your status bar back, go to Tools –> Options –> Environment –> General section and check the “Show status...