At this point I don’t know if this is a problem with devenv.exe or the new garbage collector. But my computer is choking. It may be a problem on Windows XP only. I need to check this on my Windows 7 computer.

This is right after opening a bunch of files and then closing everything including the solution and files.

This is after opening more files of different types. Opening a XAML file immediately consumed 50MB of memory! That was the biggest spike.

As it is, it doesn’t look good. I will have to go back to Visual Studio 2008 which has its own problems. May be I need a new computer or something is messed up in the installation. This is VS2010 RTM.

This is a bug in the text editor (shell?) that I have seen in Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. It may not impact most developers.

I like to use word wrap because I don’t use new lines where it doesn’t make sense. So, some lines may be wider than the screen. Now to avoid scrolling which is not an ergonomic friendly act, I enable the word wrap feature for all types of languages. You can enable this by going to Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Languages. The option is “Word Wrap”. I also enable the “Show visual glyphs for word wrap” option to recognize the places where the word wrapping occurs. All good.

The bug is when I try to copy the line that is wrapped using the keyboard shortcut for single line copy. You can copy the content of the current line Visual Studio by just clicking the copy button or just CTRL + C. When I do this on a wrapped line, it only copies the first line of the wrapped text. Even though content is technically a single line, the copy mechanism seems not getting it.

The line selection also works the same way. When I select the complete line by keeping the cursor at the beginning of the line and press SHIFT+DOWN, it is supposed to select the whole line. When I enable the word wrap, it doesn’t.

The argument against the argument that it should select only what is visually on the same line is that what is visually on the same line is irrelevant to developer. When I make a line copy, I almost never want something wrapped to be left out of the selection and copy. Wrapping is a function of the available screen width and a line selection based on that doesn’t make sense.

Another case point is the line delete using SHIFT+Del. Let us say you have resized your window. Now when you press SHIFT+Del, it deletes what is in the “view”. From a programmers perspective I cannot think of a reason I would want to delete what is in view which is pretty dynamic depending on the screen resolution, window size and so on versus the actual line.

Track the bug at Microsoft Connect.

Update: Too bad, this was closed as a won’t fix.

In Visual Studio 2008 you could just drag the toolbars around and dock it on any side. In Visual Studio 2010, the dragging is allowed only within the side where it is already docked. To change the docking location (top, left, bottom or right), open from the menu  tools -> customize. Select the toolbar you wish to modify. Click on the modify selection button and select the docking location.

Yesterday I got rid of the final Windows Vista installation I had. That is a monster machine with so many applications installed and configured I did not want to start on it unless I had enough time to deactivate/de-authorize applications, take backup of user settings etc.

Here are some images of my experience during the Windows 7 64 bit installation.

Those were due to BIOS settings that were not compatible and RAID1 being getting ready or something like that. Complete setup, user configuration restore and such completed in about 2 hours.

This time around for virus scan I chose Microsoft Security Essentials. One thing that link didn’t say at the time was that it is only for 32 bit. I downloaded and ran the setup and it failed saying it is 32 bit only. The error message had a link to get the 64 bit.

I do have Office 2007 professional but I decided to install Office 2010 beta.

I just completed the installation of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate beta on the new Windows 7 64 bit installation. I setup the backup to a SAMBA network drive. It failed a few times. I reduced the backup size (removed the HD video files from camcorder, I use Microsoft SyncToy for that.) and it is running right now. Windows backup to network location is still lagging.