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random() · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2026 7:43 am Post subject: i made a Thing (in .NET 2.0)

made a quick little thing using Visual Studio 2005 on my Windows XP setup (lemme know if you wanna see that), and felt like sharing it.

open-source too!

https://git.random.diamondbyte.org/random/the_progressinator/releases for the download,
https://git.random.diamondbyte.org/random/the_progressinator for the source code.

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parasquared · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2026 8:30 pm Post subject:

VS2005 for lyfe Razz

unironically i think it's the IDE i've spent the most time in, as well as VB .NET being one of my more familiar languages
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VCSMaster · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2026 4:45 am Post subject:

Oh yeah I definitely got my use out of VS2005. Much of my learning in C++ was done there.

Frankly, I'm ecstatic to never use it again. I don't miss that minute long startup time and the need to restart the IDE every like 15 minutes to get rid of bogus errors.

Definitely pulled some hair out debugging something it claimed was a critical, build-stopping error, only to find that restarting the environment made it go away and 0 errors / 0 warnings... Frustrating to say the least.

These days I do most of my work in Code::Blocks 12.17. it's a lot more reliable. To answer the inevitable question for "why that version," it's because it works really well in Windows XP but still works perfectly all the way to 10.