Re: [GD-Windows] VC++ lag

[Colin F. <cp...@ea...>]

> > [1] I guess this will only ever happen to any person
> > once, but it sure is shocking:
> >
> >     Deleting files from the project deletes the source
> >     files themselves!
>
> This doesn't happen with all projects all the time.  It depends on how
> the files are included in the project.  It is documented under Visual
> Studio .NET / Developing with Visual Studio .NET / Managing Solutions,
> Projects, and Files / Solutions as Containers / Projects as Containers
> / Item Management in Projects.
>
> You do read the documentation on a new product before you start using
> it, don't you? ;-)


Let's just say that Microsoft gave notice about their plans to destroy
my files just as the Vogons gave notice of the destruction of the Earth
in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Douglas Adams):

Vogon:  There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning
        charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local
        planning department on Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years,
        so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's
        far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

    [...]

Vogon:  What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? For heaven's
        sake mankind, it's only four light years away you know. I'm sorry,
        but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs
        that's your own lookout. Energise the demolition beams.

This parallels Arthur Dent's experience of the notice of the plan to
demolish his house:

- ...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them
    had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'
- But the plans were on display...'
- On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'
- That's the display department.'
- With a torch.'
- Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
- So had the stairs.'
- But look you found the notice didn't you?'
- Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a
    locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
    door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

--- Colin

cp...@ea...