MSDN Product Feedback Center Blog : Bug of the Week

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:22:00 GMT

This week's "Eagle Eye" Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “JoeF” for the bug:

Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow with Int32

This is an interesting hard to find bug. The CLR team is looking at fixing this issue in the next release. Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:04:00 GMT

This week's Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Pasi Heinonen” for the bug:

Circular base class dependancy crash the Visual Studio

From Cyrus Najmabadi, Software Design Engineer on the C# team:
"Interesting bug. As one might have guessed from the repro steps we got into an infinite loop when searching for the list of overridable methods, had a stack overflow and the program terminated. This was a bug we saw quite a bit in the VS2003 time frame. Far too much code assumed that it was safe to walk our symbol graph arbitrarily because it thought it was in some canonical form (like where no loops existed). In VS2005 I removed pretty much all occurrences of code like that and replaced it with objects that could walk the graph and not run into problems like that. i.e. Depth and breadth searchers that could be utilized by other algorithms in the language service.

Unfortunately this area was missed and I'm glad that it was caught since it's so disastrous. Thanks much to the community for reporting to us on this!"

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:23:00 GMT

This week's Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “PGomersall” for the bug:

Starting MS Outlook 2003 starts C# Express installer

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Suggestion of the Week

productfeedback — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:18:00 GMT

The Suggestion of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Mike Taulty” for the suggestion:

RSS Feed for Top Rated Bugs

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:49:00 GMT

Last Friday's Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “JDM” for the bug:

Right shift of a literal int produces logical instead of arithmetic shift

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Suggestion of the Week

productfeedback — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:46:00 GMT

Ask and you shall receive! I've been thinking about a Suggestion of the Week since we started the Bug of the Week award because I run across so many great suggestions when hunting for bugs to award. So this week, I'd like to award the first Suggestion of the Week “Most Votes” Award to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “ShadowChaser” for the suggestion he posted:

Deploy updated/new icon sets with Visual Studio

This suggestion currently has a whopping 802 votes - the most of any suggestion OR bug submitted so far. The best thing about this suggestion and the overwhelming number of votes is that internally this had been marked as a low priority item initially. The design team wanted to offer an updated image library for VS 7.1 but this was cut due to low customer request a perception of low customer interest at that time. When Office upgraded their icons to high color which are more difficult to create than 16 color and more difficult to screen capture (due to the gradient background on Office command bars) the request for an updated library was expected. The fact that it was so high in the customer request list was a surprise to many and was the main reason this was addressed in Whidbey for Beta 2. Soma, Developer Devision Corporate VP, even blogged about this suggestion here http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/01/23/359124.aspx

I'd like to emphasize the visibility bugs and suggestions get internally at MS when there is a high volume of customer feedback. With the PFC, we have the ability to easily receive and track customer interest which in turn helps us make better decisions, like including updated icon sets.

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:27:00 GMT

This weeks Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Jouko Kynsijärvi” for the bug:

Button renders text & focus rectangle inconsistently compared to native Win32 button

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:44:00 GMT

This weeks Bug of the Week “Most Votes” Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Scott Hanselman” for the bug he posted:

Tray Icon support is limited: System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon doesn't support Balloon Help without P/Invoke

This bug currently has 172 votes - the most of any bug submitted so far (note this is out of bugs only, not suggestions).

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:12:00 GMT

This weeks Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Paul D. Murphy” for the bug:

The 1! in the end of filename causes debugger not to hit breakpoints

Thanks for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:27:00 GMT

This weeks Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Kevin Dente” for the bug:

Adding Web Reference from Visual Studio generates fields instead of properties

This bug was originally resolved as "Won't Fix" but was fixed after Kevin re-opened it. Thanks for your persistence Kevin Dente and for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:28:00 GMT

This weeks Bug of the Week Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “FransBouma” for the bug:

Cursor doesn't remember indentation after enter is pressed

This is a good catch that our internal testers may have never found but is important for the OGF of the C# editing experience. Thanks FransBouma for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:04:00 GMT

This weeks Bug of the Week “Eagle Eye” Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “TAG” for the bug:

IDE does not colorize single character classnames if they follow immediately after closing "}"

This is a narrow case our internal testing did not identify. Thanks TAG for helping make Visual Studio a better product and keep the great feedback coming!

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager

Bug of the Week

productfeedback — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:53:00 GMT

In recognition and appreciation for helping make Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) an even better product, today we’re kicking off the first Bug of the Week Award! Keep the awesome feedback coming and you too may be a winner.

This weeks Bug of the Week “Eagle Eye” Award goes to MSDN Product Feedback Center user “Ben Monroe” for the bug he posted: GUI control position information is not updated when changed by keyboard.

How we select the Bug of the Week

Bugs will be selected using a variety of criteria. The following are examples of themes we’ll be using. We'll be adding to this list undoubtedly...

Most Votes

At the time of selection, this bug has the most votes of all the bugs in the database.

Most Popular

At the time of selection, this bug has the highest average vote value and has the most votes in the database. Only bugs with more then three votes considered.

“Eagle Eye” Bug

This award is for the bug that is easy to overlook, generally a fit and finish UI bug like “the alignment of this button is off by 1 pixel”.

Longest Repro

This award is for the bug with the most number of steps needed to reproduce the issue.

“Microsoft Blooper” Bug

This award is for Microsoft’s most embarrassing bugs, issues identified by customers that should have never made their way out the door in the first place.

Rewards

Award recipients will receive a personalized certificate signed by members of the Visual Studio team plus a few items from the Microsoft goodie vault.

Thanks,

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager