So it goes like this. At work we have a Ruby script that allows us to create a project file for a project that works with any version of Visual Studio between 2003 and 2010. For example, I could run the command...
... and it would find the Visual Studio 2005 project file(s) and create corresponding Visual Studio 2010 files. Since the de-facto Visual Studio install at work is VS2008 abd we skipped 2010m we are planning to migrate straight to 2012. I was asked to update the script to create VS2012 files. Easy enough.
To test my changes, I had to install a copy of the VS2012 trial. Now though, since we don't have any licenses for 2012 yet, and the trial has expired, I've chosen to remove 2012 completely. The thing is, I'm STILL trying to do it! I uninstalled VS2012 itself easy enough, but it installed SO. MUCH. EXTRA. STUFF. I count no less than THIRTY FIVE extra products installed. Silverlight, SQL this, SQL that, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, the list goes on, and on, and on. And does VS2012 uninstall them all for you automatically? Of course not!
Absolutely ridiculous.
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(I'm not expecting any help or anything, just needed to get it off my chest)
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So it goes like this. At work we have a Ruby script that allows us to create a project file for a project that works with any version of Visual Studio between 2003 and 2010. For example, I could run the command...
ruby ProjectFileConverter.rb --dir="C:\Dev\MyProject" --in=2005 --out=2010
... and it would find the Visual Studio 2005 project file(s) and create corresponding Visual Studio 2010 files. Since the de-facto Visual Studio install at work is VS2008 abd we skipped 2010m we are planning to migrate straight to 2012. I was asked to update the script to create VS2012 files. Easy enough.
To test my changes, I had to install a copy of the VS2012 trial. Now though, since we don't have any licenses for 2012 yet, and the trial has expired, I've chosen to remove 2012 completely. The thing is, I'm STILL trying to do it! I uninstalled VS2012 itself easy enough, but it installed SO. MUCH. EXTRA. STUFF. I count no less than THIRTY FIVE extra products installed. Silverlight, SQL this, SQL that, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, the list goes on, and on, and on. And does VS2012 uninstall them all for you automatically? Of course not!
Absolutely ridiculous.
</rant>
(I'm not expecting any help or anything, just needed to get it off my chest)
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