VC7.1 IDE Bug Report

[Boris Burger]

Hello,

I have discovered a bug in Visual C++.NET 2003 IDE, that
causes the IDE to freeze upon opening a concrete simple header file.
Please, is there any meaningful way to reach the people at Microsoft
that might be interested in this?

I posted a message to this newsgroup describing the bug several
days ago, but no one seemed interested.

Regards,
Boris Burger

 

[Guest]

CD [Wed, 3 Sep 2003 06:58:18 -0700]:

I can confirm that that's a known bug that's been reported to Microsoft, so
it should be fixed in a future version.

BZZT! (Now that's what I call a leap!)

We would have accepted, "and might even be fixed one of these days".

 

[Harry Bosch]

BTW, you can safely assume that once we acknowledge an IDE hang (which
means possible data loss) bug, it will be fixed in the next shipping
release.

So reading between the lines, service packs are now a thing of the past.

So then, what is the purpose of that "Check for updates" item on the Help
menu? Even a simple honest answer would be better than nothing, and much
better than a lie. If the answer is "We have no intention of providing bug
fixes", why not just tell us? Some reason you can't do that? Something
you're not allowed to talk about? Orders from Bill? Worried that we'd all
immediately jump ship to Borland C++ Builder or go install Red Hat or
something? Or maybe you could tell us, but then you'd have to kill us? That
one I can see, cuz we wouldn't be upgrading no mo' after that!

 

[Brandon Bray [MSFT]]

So reading between the lines, service packs are now a thing of the past.

Hi Harry,
Fortunately, that conclusion is wrong. We are still working on service
packs for several versions of Visual Studio. Do know that many people have
taken notice of the amount of elapsed time between release and service
packs. There are people interested in fixing that.

Right now, it is fair to say that our process for creating a service pack is
a bit circuitous. The fixes that are put into a service pack are almost
entirely the QFEs that Carl referred to earlier. At a certain point, the
QFEs are rolled up into a service pack.

Cheerio!

 

[Harry Bosch]

Hi Harry,
Fortunately, that conclusion is wrong. We are still working on
service
packs for several versions of Visual Studio. Do know that many people
have taken notice of the amount of elapsed time between release and
service packs. There are people interested in fixing that.

Well, I'm glad to hear that, and if nothing else, I want Microsoft to know
that it is my number one complaint with Visual Studio. Others may have
different problems, for sure, but I don't mind trying to badger you guys
into improving the service pack issue