Today, I'm working on fixing a bug in some software I originally wrote in 2002 that generates reports for Payroll. It was originally written using Visual Studio .NET (the first version) and has since been maintained in Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003. All of my new stuff is written using the .NET 2.0 framework in Visual Studio 2005, and will soon be moving to .NET 3.0. But I have a few programs we use here at work that are written using .NET 1.1. This is the first time I've worked on one of them since I installed Vista on Dark. This morning, I had to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 to be able to work on it.
The bug I'm working on is in a report for Crystal Reports that the program uses. It's a minor error somewhere in a formula that calculates the total number of hours they should have worked based on when they started and how far into the year we are. It's off across the board by 80 hours.
While looking at the formulas, something happened that it wouldn't let me view them to edit them anymore. I decided I should install the updates for VS .NET 2003 anyway, and maybe that will fix it.
Help -> Check for Updates...
Service Pack 1 is available, would you like to install it?
Yes.
Would you like to install from the internet or from a file on your disk?
The internet.
Where do you want to put the files?
I don't know, put them here.
(It proceeds to download the service pack.)
Would you like to install Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio .NET 2003?
Yes. I just told you that.
Do you agree to give your soul to Microsoft if you violate the terms of this license?
Yes.
(It pretends to install for awhile.)
Please insert the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer - English disk.
Which one? There are 3.
(No response.)
Fine. Here's disk 1.
(It goes back to installing.)
Time Remaining: 24 minutes
Go to hell.
I hate annoying installs.
