HardwareBanter - View Single Post - A strange weakness in all MS Windows versions

**Charlie** · February 13th 20, 03:16 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On 2/13/2020 12:44 AM, wrote:
Besides from all the crappy versions of Visual Studio.

Last 3 times I tried it failed:

1. Windows update and Visual Studio conflict when installing on new system.

2. Visual Studio does not install if a service with C isn't running.

3. Visual Studio installer contained .CORE bug in installer couldn't install.

Mentioning other problems:

4. 2008 version had serious issue in editor causing it to be super slow.

5. 2012 has ugly gray/black icons.

6. 2010 very was kinda nice, but can't re-open project that were saved.

LOL.

The crap that is visual studio continues... I wouldn't be surprise if 2019 has some awfull bugs that will show up sooner then later.

I am not even sure if 2019 will install on an OS without platform update.

So I stay faaaaarrr away from it on my Main system.

I seriously cannot recommend Visual Studio to anybody.

Installing it successfully needed a virtual machine for me to undue Microsoft's **** ups.

That's a bit heavy for kids.

I might still try it on windows 7 new ISO-integrated install, now that hopefully windows update is dead. Yet I fear it's not totally dead so would have to de-install.

Basically installing Visual Studio requires a virtual machine to do it safely, or risk damage to main operating system.

Running a VM by a kid is a bit heavy

THIS IS NOT A JOKE.

One of World's Biggest Software company cannot make decent development tools, quite odd.

Bye,
Skybuck =D

If you want something easy for kids to get a start then how about VBScript.
It's built into Windows and needs only a text editor to write a program.

Type the following line into Notepad:

MsgBox("Hello, World!")

Save as Hello.vbs and double click on the resulting file to run it.
Pretty simple.

Charlie