I’ve been using Visual Studio for almost 20 years as my primary code editor /project manager and for all that time it’s been solid. If there were errors it told you and highlighted/underlined them before you tried to build no matter where the error was in the entire solution.
I am willing to accept a slight decrease that solidness in order to gain the extra flexibility provided by dotnet core over framework. However…
My experience with the recent updates to Visual Studio have culminated into a state where errors that exists are not detected, or if they are (ex. on rebuild) they are only reported, not underlined. Once I find and fix the error it remains in the list until I rebuild, if there are other errors it will remain until I find and fix each of them (which themselves will remain in the error list…) and finally rebuild.
I’ve adjusted options, to no avail. Sometimes restarting VS helps for a few minutes sometimes deleting the .vs folder will help for a few more…I feel like It used to be a lot nicer.
Today I’m seriously considering moving to a plain code editor and using the donet cli for build/test/publish.
Is anyone else experiencing problems like this?
You’re looking at a service that’s pulled in by a viewmodel in a WPF application. I know WPF errors are notoriously bad, but this is happening in simple library projects too (I don’t do any web dev)…I’m on 17.13.1, I see .2 just came out but at this point I think I just want off the ride. OTOH, maybe my install got jacked and I need to reinstall.