Who was Microsoft kidding when they promised to end “DLL Hell”? The long dark night of the SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta produced a series of seeming incompatible .NET frameworks. I didn’t do much beta testing with the 2005 bits, but when I did, I did so from the safe confines of various VMWare sessions. I’m now looking at some automated build tools and one of our developers suggested MSBuild. That’s the last thing you would want, a build tool that will be dependant having the appropriate runtime installed. Plus I want something that supports more than .NET compilers, we are still building Delphi Win32 apps here as well as .NET assemblies.
On a slightly separate target, why RSS Bandit is such a resource hog? I loved the interface, but it would bring the performace of my PC to a flying stop. I just started using Omea Reader, and it plays well with others much better than RSS Bandit did.
….Microsoft promosed that DLL Hell would go away, but with the .NET Framework betas, they dropped us into the biggest DLL Hell I’ve ever seen. I can’t uninstall MSH from my system because I installed the .NET Framework 2.0, which required that I uninstall the beta versions. The MSH uninstaller requires the beta framework, which I uninstalled, so I’m stuck. I can’t install the release version of MSH. This sort of thing is just silly, and I thought it was a problem that we’d solved. (To be fair, they did promise that this won’t be a problem for release versions of the framework, but how many millions of times were the betas downloaded?)
from Stevex’s blog