<rant>This isn't a feature request, or even a bug report, but I could think of no better place to put this rant.
1. Visual Studio was obviously built with the "intent" of providing updates, as per my topic subject. Everytime I run this command I always get the "No new Service Releases are available\n\nYour system is up-to-date." message box.
2. In <b>every</b> bug report or feature request I've seen on these forums, the newsgroups, other forums, et. al whenever a Microsofty replies the answer is <b>always</b> either "Here's a workaround", or "Wait until the next release."
3. Microsoft has been pushing the concept of "Automatic Updates" to us developers, providing more than ample articles, samples, and ideas on how to implement then with BLITs, shadow copying, run-time control registration, etc. Yet they fail to practice this with the very tool that supports almost their entire efforts of .NET.
VS costs a buttload of money for those that don't have a MSDN subscription or is a Microsoft Partner and with the upcoming "release" of Everett, MS will only be raking in more dough. My idea, however novel it is, is that MS practice what they preach and use functionality they've built into Visual Studio and fix some of those bugs and/or feature requests with a free "Service Release." Microsoft does this type of free update with lots of other programs (including the now legacy Visual Studio 6 and all flavors of Windows (their primary money maker)), why can't they give us, one of their most important resources, the developers of third party software a little*space
space*and do the same.</rant>
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rccopter
I think in the future though, they probably will start doing this (just a guess, hope I'm right) as everyone starts getting on broadband and more and more people like us request it!
This sort of thing seems to be something that's a "really nice to have" thing, but isn't necessary for VS.NET to run, so I think it will take a lot of nagging to get them to do it! ;)
NickWebb
As you have mentioned however having these help files updated automatically (Windows Auto-Update style) would be awesome. I've sent in a few bugs related to the documentation and my changes were reflected on the MSDN website shortly after they responded. But seeing as I have MSDN installed locally I don't see the changes that I have contributed, you have contributed, or the hoards of other people that have contributed until I get around to installing the newest massive MSDN again.
Poprocks83
do you think kids 20 years from now will ever see a "disconnected day" for the majority, i highly doubt it
but you're right Ken, that is a bad idea right now...I'm just givin' ya crap :p
Pape
FWIW, I know for a fact that the documentation folks are aware that people want this, and my guess is that they do too. It would be interesting to see if this changes in the Everett time frame, or not.
GvS
What bugs are furstrating you the most Knowing this will help us craft the best SP.
thanks
- mike
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