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I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Me too. After a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago, I instituted my own File Server that's accessible via the Internet. All of my data is 'safe at home' with daily backups.
How do you secure it from unwanted access? I have been wanting to do something similar but I am unsure of the best practices
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I don't think I've ever 'bricked' my IDE. How does one go about bricking an IDE?
Welcome to Visual Studio, the home of updates that take hours to install and sometimes end up bricking your IDE. To be fair, that hasn't happened in a pretty long time for me - but in the earlier days it was commonplace. It used to be bleeding edge features that would do it, other times it was just because they took so long, that interrupting the process of upgrading or installing caused a mess. Or installing the new…
Sure, sometimes installing new versions alongside old versions could cause issues. But that's a managed process that one team member would do before the whole team migrated and any issues would be worked out during that stage. (one of our old upgrade steps was to install 2015 before 2013 because doing it the other way around would break something in 2013; 2013 still being needed for some projects).
I have never been in the situation where the entire company (or even entire team) was locked out of their IDE.
I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png
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I don't think I've ever 'bricked' my IDE. How does one go about bricking an IDE?
Welcome to Visual Studio, the home of updates that take hours to install and sometimes end up bricking your IDE. To be fair, that hasn't happened in a pretty long time for me - but in the earlier days it was commonplace. It used to be bleeding edge features that would do it, other times it was just because they took so long, that interrupting the process of upgrading or installing caused a mess. Or installing the new…
Also, while this isn't bricking the IDE, you can definitely ruin solutions & project files in a very hard to debug way if you ever need to manually update those files.
I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png
That's strange, I assume it doesn't work when you aren't connected to the internet either?
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I don't think I've ever 'bricked' my IDE. How does one go about bricking an IDE?
Welcome to Visual Studio, the home of updates that take hours to install and sometimes end up bricking your IDE. To be fair, that hasn't happened in a pretty long time for me - but in the earlier days it was commonplace. It used to be bleeding edge features that would do it, other times it was just because they took so long, that interrupting the process of upgrading or installing caused a mess. Or installing the new…
Restores operating system image in a few minutes.
I'm assuming this is related: I can't do any development using Visual Studio 2019 at the moment because it calls home to verify the license and it is currently unable to log me in to to verify my license. So VS is basically bricked for me until this gets fixed :-( Screenshot: https://rog.gy/ss/3b14f7a2ac.png
That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud. Just yesterday I had a similar issue with Resharper, where our local licence server was down for the day. Luckily I was able to enable a 30-day trial. (and I guess Resharper isn't that mandatory to get work done)
This isn’t even the first time this has happened. I do most of my development on my desktop computer, sometimes I go long stretches without using my laptop. More than once I opened up my laptop on a flight to try and get some coding work done, but surprise, license is expired and I don’t have any connectivity to renew it. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Funnily enough the community/free version works without issues. That really sucks if you're a paying customer.
not that surprising, since it probably doesn't have to phone home.
Now, the pirated version never phones home and always works even when MS decides to steal your products back.
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I don't think I've ever 'bricked' my IDE. How does one go about bricking an IDE?
Welcome to Visual Studio, the home of updates that take hours to install and sometimes end up bricking your IDE. To be fair, that hasn't happened in a pretty long time for me - but in the earlier days it was commonplace. It used to be bleeding edge features that would do it, other times it was just because they took so long, that interrupting the process of upgrading or installing caused a mess. Or installing the new…
Yes, since the inception of these kinds of tools, recovery from these corruptions became easier by restoring from an image. Still, in the early days, you could burn a lot of time doing anything of these things!