Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Brian Madsen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:58:28 GMT

Hey Steven,

thanks heaps for the link - will definitely try that solution out tonight.

as an afterthought, put your blog url into the "website" so i can link to your blog. i also tend to "vet" most visitors that appear "anonymous" very stricktly as i get an awful lot of spam these days. Community Server catches most of them but some do slip through from time to time.

Again, thanks for the link buddy..appreciated!

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

steven — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:33:27 GMT

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re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Brian Madsen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:55:22 GMT

In my opinion it's a fail...a fail to not involve the community..a fail to not think ahead...a fail to knowingly release them without the support for 64-bit.

i'm terribly dissapointed as there's definitely no excuses that can be made as to why it wasn't attended to. And it certainly can't be said there isn't enough avenues available to this product team in order to get feedback.

Not only is the MOSS developmer community growing..and growing fast...but there's some 5000 MVPs out there as well who willingly, alongside the community, will provide feedback.

No, this was released without proper analysis - it just takes 1 Live Search or Google Search to come to the realisation that there was a mistake made. The amount of blogs and forum entries today that mention this is growing by the hour.

It honestly also shouldn't be that hard to get the installer to work with 64-bit. Third party extension providers are doing it already. Just look at JetBrains' ReSharper or hell even a free tool like GhostDoc (Weigelt's Ghostdoc 2.1.x) supports 64-bit easily enough.

One way to definitely avoid these epic fails is to put the information out there as early as possible (before release) and get some feedback...invite people to private betas/CTPs etc..how come this wasn't done for something as monumental as these extensions?

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Peter — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:06:02 GMT

It is ridiculous that these still don't support 64 bit. We even contacted our MS rep and asked why and he replied that they do work, so we had to send him a copy of the error screen to convince him. His answer, 'They don't support 64 bit OS with these extensions'

re: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

Daniel Reed — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:18:36 GMT

Yeah, couldn't agree more. What the hell is with this?

At my company we decided to write our own templates for VS2008. And it works in 64 bit no problem. At this rate, we will have a better product than Microsoft.

Honestly Microsoft. What can be so hard to get working? Get your priorities straight