Started to play with the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, I want to see if I can use it has a base UI for all my internal programs. Immediately I encountered several problems. They are not big problems but it makes me feel that it’s beta quality instead of released product. I’m using released version of both Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Visual Studio 2008 SDK.
Here are the problems that I saw:
- Creating new isolation mode project will create two projects with weird names. $ProjectName$ and $ProjectName$UI. These looks like internal names used by the codegen that should have been replaced. Creating a new solution does not have this problem.
- If the Visual Studio is not an elevated process the build succeeds but when debugging the project there is an error saying component cannot be found. Changing the Visual Studio to run by administrator and rebuilding the projects will fix it.
- When I try to close the application the first time I debug it, it tries to merge the help files. It took few minutes before I have to kill it. When I ran it again, it closed fine.
Filed under: Visual Studio | Tagged: Visual Studio Shell
