I had forgotten how much I despise Microsoft software. A couple of hours ago I decided to make a fix to my QuickLatin code. More fool me. Three hours later, I am no further forward and have spent the entire time struggling with their wretched development environment. It was all working before I started. I had to deinstall Visual Studio and reinstall, then reinstall an add-on, then work out why it wasn’t showing, then disable and re-enable to make the window pop-up…. bah!
I had to break off and retreat to my sofa for some intensive googling from my phone. This did produce some results; but nothing that I could do would persuade Visual Studio to connect to its own marketplace. The meaningless error message carefully conceals whatever the problem might be.
Part way through I wondered if I ought to purchase a more recent version. Well, that led me down a rabbit hole as well. All they want to sell you is incredibly expensive monthly subscriptions / licenses. I never did find out what they would want to sell me what I wanted. No wonder pirate keys circulate on the web.
Just so much pain, just to get started with anything.
In corporate IT departments they have pages on their intranets, describing just what “incantation” will make the software work as they need it to. These can be very lengthy and detailed indeed. Sixty sections of instructions is nothing. But no ordinary person can spend that amount of time.
I’m still busy collating the text of John the Deacon against the manuscripts. This was just something different to do.
MS is the spawn of the devil.
Such contempt for those who use their software.