Why ?!?!?!

Published August 12, 20071 min readMarkdown

The most annoying thing about Visual Studio 2005:

Sure, no problem Help, you update while I continue working….oh no! What’s this?:

Dagnabbit! My IDE has been hijacked by Help…so I click on Switch To… gotta get back to work, but no, it refuses to switch to Visual Studio. Soooo….I just switch to reading my email and drinking some coffee. **Sigh**

Luckily I’m not alone.

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Pieter van der Westhuizen
Pieter van der Westhuizen, a professional freelance web & mobile developer and founder of Coalition Software.

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