Thursday, November 13, 2008

Visual Studio and renaming controls

Perhaps one of my only annoyances (so far) about Visual Studio (2008, at least) is the sporadic ability of it to rename my controls. Renaming a control is like Russian Roulette. Maybe it will update all the place that control is named, maybe it'll get half of them... you just don't know until you go to run it and, hey, it doesn't work properly any more! And of course, the problem is that only half of what you expected to get changed got changed. And it's the half you can see easily. The part that got missed was the often hidden/obscure back end declarations.

I've seen this in web developer and the VB IDE as well, and it often causes a few minutes of: 'Buh?' until I find the discrepancy.

Cest la vie.

1 comment:

Tami said...

You are a high level nerd, I will give you an 11.