Every time someone tells me how great an IDE Visual Studio is, I wonder if we’re talking about the same Visual Studio. Just to be clear, the one I’m using is from Microsoft.
Here’s an error message I ran into today. See if you can guess what it means; it occurs when you try to drag a source file into your project.
The text, in case you don’t want to look at the picture closely, is “A file, filter, or folder already exists at the current scope in project ‘calc’ or access was denied for the desired operation.”
Give up? It means That file is already in your project. It does not mean it is in any particular place in your project, and the group it is in is probably hidden.
I hate overloaded error messages. I hate overloaded error messages where each overloaded error message makes no sense even more. I call for the head of whoever wrote that message! I’m not singling him out; I want the head of everyone who writes useless error messages. And yes, I know that includes my own head, but I’ve already got it, see…