Evidence to back my sincere belief that Visual Studio is the worst piece of software available.
- It's extremely slow.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U
- It's so bad it now displays this message in the text window before the actual text:
- When in debugging mode, the method details dialog that appears when you hover over the method name doesn't work.
- The performance profiler is, ironically, extremely slow.
- You have to exit VS to install or update extensions
- You can only update one extension at a time
- Complaining about my web.config being locked while installing a package, when it isn't:
- Setting the conditional breakpoint field now results in a call to the Copilot API. This also blocks the Intellisense completions so you'll have to wait for the Copilot request to complete or fail. AI slop aside, it says a lot about the VS developers that they think firing off an HTTP request in the conditional breakpoint field is acceptable behaviour.
- Fields in the watch window that have little refresh icons next to them because the Visual Studio watch window can't meet the most basic requirement of a watch window: showing you the current value of an expression when it changes
- Microsoft won't let you report a bug on their website without accessing it via the "Report a Problem" menu entry in Visual Studio... which just opens the Microsoft website.
Visual Studio freezes during build for the 89347823th time today, so I terminate the process as usual. After doing this, I get a prompt telling me that it's updating itself without asking. Nothing happens, so I try and run it:
I try running the installer:
I hit "retry":
