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Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Ian2 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:23:14 GMT

First to comment on this post:- achivements++

posted by Ian2

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

David Garbacz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:26:32 GMT

I love how people joked about this and it's definitely a reality. I'm stunned this is awesome :)

posted by David Garbacz

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

weemundo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:35:38 GMT

You could also check out a tiny little application I made in a day using Visual Studio Achievements API:

It's called VS Achievement checker. fairly basic - enter username and it fetches achievements and total points. Give it a go (it's free)

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/431c078f-d4fd-4085-8f89-766b0a6d53a0

posted by weemundo

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

DennisDel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:47:21 GMT

There is the open source implementation of a Windows Phone application for the achievements:

http://vsa.codeplex.com/

Pre-compiled XAP can be downloaded here (latest) [dev-unlocked phone required]:

http://dennisdel.com/blog/visual-studio-achievements-for-windows-phone-beta-ndash-build-01012012-update

posted by DennisDel

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Rhapsody — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:57:19 GMT

Although it's definately not new, it looks very cool!

posted by Rhapsody

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

davidszilard — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:55 GMT

The pagination doesn't work on this page because the last user's name on the bottom right covers the pagination links

http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio/leaderboard

posted by davidszilard

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Geoffreyk — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:02:38 GMT

14 seconds ago, davidszilard wrote
The pagination doesn't work on this page because the last user's name on the bottom right covers the pagination links
http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio/leaderboard

What browser are you using? I am not repro ing this on any of the browsers I have tested with

-Edit-

Ah there it is. I will get a fix up for this soon

posted by Geoffreyk

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Mark — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:02 GMT

Could these be related to your XBOX Live Acheivements too? More gamer points for developing!!

posted by Mark

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Geoffreyk — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:45:31 GMT

2 hours ago, davidszilard wrote
The pagination doesn't work on this page because the last user's name on the bottom right covers the pagination links
http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio/leaderboard

This should be fixed now.

Thanks for the heads up

posted by Geoffreyk

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

D_K — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:50:28 GMT

Looks awesome, but doesn't build the url for the page

/niners/[displayname]/achievements/visualstudio?json=true

correctly with an underscore in the display name, so I cannot use it. Looking forward to trying it though.

posted by D_K

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Duncan_McGregor — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:38:19 GMT

Look forward to the fix D_K and I need to be able to use VS Achievements

I am unable to get achievements or view achievements as the url that is used only included my first name (before the underscore (_))

http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/<username>/achievements/visualstudio?json=true

This is also using my user name not my display name as i have tried chanign my display name and still no luck.

Look forward to the fix

Duncan

posted by Duncan_McGregor

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Kamran — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:44:32 GMT

Awesome, I had a conversation with a co-worker last year about this and how I thought it would be fun to have.

posted by Kamran

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

D_K — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:44:56 GMT

@Duncan_McGregor is correct, it is an underscore in the username, not the display name.

posted by D_K

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

k4gdw — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:01:49 GMT

Pretty cool... I wish the achievements would show up on our XBOX Live avatars. It would also be cool if there were achievements for using ReSharper.

posted by k4gdw

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Duncanma — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:04:08 GMT

@D_K: @Duncan_McGregor: Hey folks, we are looking into this issue right now, so hopefully we'll get it resolved in the near future.

posted by Duncanma

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

D_K — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:32:30 GMT

@Duncanma:Excellent!

posted by D_K

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Duncan_McGregor — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:47:20 GMT

@Duncanma: Cheers

posted by Duncan_McGregor

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

DavidGardiner — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:09:22 GMT

When this extension is enabled, I get errors building a solution (and these errors go away when the extension is disabled):

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(2868,9): error MSB3021: Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\MyProjectAssembly.dll" to "bin\Debug\MyProjectAssembly.dll". The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

posted by DavidGardiner

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

DevAdept — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:35:48 GMT

It's a fun idea, but honestly, some of those achievements should remove points from your total. 'Turtles All The Way Down'? 'Overload'? For shame!

posted by DevAdept

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

JiggleBop — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:52:09 GMT

Very cool! But it sort of kind of half works. Sometimes when I do "Close All But This" it doesn't count it. I've done it about 15 times but it says 8. Same with "Organize Usings".

And yes, you should be able to earn "bad" achievements

posted by JiggleBop

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

DiryBoy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:53:37 GMT

awesome!

posted by DiryBoy

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Richard.Hein — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:43:40 GMT

Cool!

posted by Richard.Hein

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

niaher — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:05 GMT

Excellent idea, but some of the achievements don't really looks like achievements, but rather bad coding practices. It would be great if the points collected actually indicated you level of coding proficiency.

posted by niaher

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Duncanma — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:54:18 GMT

@JiggleBop: One thing to note is that for 'progress' based achievements (like the 'close all but this' example) we only count a maximum of one per minute, no matter how many you actually do. If you are performing the action(s) as a normal part of your work with Visual Studio I suspect you'll just unlock the achievement naturally in time.

posted by Duncanma

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Maddus Mattus — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:54:29 GMT

If you are having trouble with your user name and achievements, check the registry at; HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VSAchievements if your username is properly url decoded.

posted by Maddus Mattus

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Dan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:28:54 GMT

How does this work with code I share with colleagues in source control? I don't want badges based on other peoples code and vice versa...

posted by Dan

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Mark_de_Haas — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:06:32 GMT

@Maddus Mattus: Thanks, that fixed it for me

posted by Mark_de_Haas

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Marek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:26:23 GMT

That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard of...

posted by Marek

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

SvenHecht — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:23:14 GMT

@k4gdw: yes! resharper achievements++

posted by SvenHecht

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Maddus Mattus — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:58:35 GMT

@Dan: it places badges on you ch9 account, not on your code

posted by Maddus Mattus

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

D_K — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:58:32 GMT

@Maddus Mattus:Worked for me too. This is pretty sweet.

posted by D_K

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Korprat Koder — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:17:46 GMT

can someone explain to me whether you want to be off the leaderboard or at the top? i am unclear on the concept ;-)

also i suggest that an award be given for exceeding a given number of errors. call this the "Vice President" achievement. Some of the old COBOL compilers had that "feature".

posted by Korprat Koder

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

AdamSpeight2008 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:37:40 GMT

I predict this become the Coder's Version of Farmville. (ie; must people will not two hoots, as to what achievement you've gained)

Visual Studio's will be forever tarnished, cometh the day when it is a requirement in a job vacancy.

posted by AdamSpeight2008

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

JuanZamudio — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:17:35 GMT

I got an error with the extension and an error trying to report the error here in the site nice: here is the exception that makes VS crash

[Window Title] devenv.exe - Assert Failure

[Main Instruction] devenv.exe - Assert Failure

[Content] Expression: [mscorlib recursive resource lookup bug] Description: Infinite recursion during resource lookup within mscorlib. This may be a bug in mscorlib, or potentially in certain extensibility points such as assembly resolve events or CultureInfo names. Resource name: Security_Generic

[Expanded Information] Stack Trace: at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceStringCode(Object userDataIn) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key, CultureInfo culture) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceStringLocal(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceFromDefault(String key) at System.Security.FrameSecurityDescriptor.CheckDemand2(CodeAccessPermission demand, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh, Boolean fDeclarative) at System.Security.SecurityRuntime.FrameDescHelper(FrameSecurityDescriptor secDesc, IPermission demandIn, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh) at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet) at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(CodeAccessPermission cap, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Security.CodeAccessPermission.Demand() at System.IO.File.InternalExistsHelper(String path, Boolean checkHost) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.VsAppDomainManager.InnerResolveHandler(String name) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.VsAppDomainManager.ResolveHandler(Object sender, ResolveEventArgs args) at System.AppDomain.OnAssemblyResolveEvent(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String assemblyFullName) at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks) at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalGetSatelliteAssembly(String name, CultureInfo culture, Version version, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.GetSatelliteAssembly(CultureInfo lookForCulture, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.GrovelForResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Dictionary`2 localResourceSets, Boolean tryParents, Boolean createIfNotExists, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo requestedCulture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.GetString(String name, CultureInfo culture) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceStringCode(Object userDataIn) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key, CultureInfo culture) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceStringLocal(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceFromDefault(String key) at System.Security.FrameSecurityDescriptor.CheckDemand2(CodeAccessPermission demand, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh, Boolean fDeclarative) at System.Security.SecurityRuntime.FrameDescHelper(FrameSecurityDescriptor secDesc, IPermission demandIn, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh) at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet) at System

posted by JuanZamudio

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

JuanZamudio — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:21:02 GMT

mmm, uninstalling now.

After 5 minutes i get the exception again

posted by JuanZamudio

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

geo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:22:33 GMT

I don't understand whats the fun in this? Have I become so old! Or maybe because I am an FPS guy, so these mystery games are off my genre.

posted by geo

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

yunchaenah — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:00:29 GMT

프린터가 용지가 있으나 오류발생

posted by yunchaenah

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

dubajj — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:58 GMT

How about a c++ version?

posted by dubajj

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

karstenj — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:50:05 GMT

@JuanZamudio -- Thanks for reporting this. We've logged the issue and are currently investigating.

2 hours ago, JuanZamudio wrote
I got an error with the extension and an error trying to report the error here in the site nice: here is the exception that makes VS crash

[Window Title] devenv.exe - Assert Failure
[Main Instruction] devenv.exe - Assert Failure
[Content] Expression: [mscorlib recursive resource lookup bug] Description: Infinite recursion during resource lookup within mscorlib. This may be a bug in mscorlib, or potentially in certain extensibility points such as assembly resolve events or CultureInfo names. Resource name: Security_Generic
[Expanded Information] Stack Trace: at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceStringCode(Object userDataIn) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key, CultureInfo culture) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceStringLocal(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceFromDefault(String key) at System.Security.FrameSecurityDescriptor.CheckDemand2(CodeAccessPermission demand, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh, Boolean fDeclarative) at System.Security.SecurityRuntime.FrameDescHelper(FrameSecurityDescriptor secDesc, IPermission demandIn, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh) at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet) at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(CodeAccessPermission cap, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Security.CodeAccessPermission.Demand() at System.IO.File.InternalExistsHelper(String path, Boolean checkHost) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.VsAppDomainManager.InnerResolveHandler(String name) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.VsAppDomainManager.ResolveHandler(Object sender, ResolveEventArgs args) at System.AppDomain.OnAssemblyResolveEvent(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String assemblyFullName) at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks) at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalGetSatelliteAssembly(String name, CultureInfo culture, Version version, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.GetSatelliteAssembly(CultureInfo lookForCulture, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.GrovelForResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Dictionary`2 localResourceSets, Boolean tryParents, Boolean createIfNotExists, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo requestedCulture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents, StackCrawlMark& stackMark) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, Boolean createIfNotExists, Boolean tryParents) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.GetString(String name, CultureInfo culture) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceStringCode(Object userDataIn) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key, CultureInfo culture) at System.Environment.ResourceHelper.GetResourceString(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceStringLocal(String key) at System.Environment.GetResourceFromDefault(String key) at System.Security.FrameSecurityDescriptor.CheckDemand2(CodeAccessPermission demand, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh, Boolean fDeclarative) at System.Security.SecurityRuntime.FrameDescHelper(FrameSecurityDescriptor secDesc, IPermission demandIn, PermissionToken permToken, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal rmh) at System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.Check(Object demand, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean isPermSet) at System

posted by karstenj

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

yogiii — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:23:36 GMT

Pleae give us C++ support :)

posted by yogiii

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Duncan_McGregor — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:26:32 GMT

@Maddus Mattus: Thanks for the help, thought the username might be hiding in the registry

posted by Duncan_McGregor

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

smnbss1 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:56:41 GMT

could not compile any project any more after installing this plugin

posted by smnbss1

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

olanmills — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:20:09 GMT

The idea is fun but the actual achievements are terrible. Why would you create so many achievements for terrible development practices?

posted by olanmills

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Abraham Tehrani — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:29:08 GMT

This is a terrible idea, almost idiotic! Most of the achievements are promoting bad practices; decent idea, terrible execution. You really should come up with better achievements.

posted by Abraham Tehrani

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Allen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:53:03 GMT

I love the idea. If nothing else it will help break up some of the same ole monotony of getting stuck in the same rut everyday. I look forward to sharing this with my coworkers too. I bet theyll get a kick out of it. The idea could potentially be used to promote good programming habits for new programmers as well!

posted by Allen

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

jvs_ca — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:48:19 GMT

@Maddus Mattus:Thanks, that was my problem. Now to collect achievements!

posted by jvs_ca

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Ramot — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:02 GMT

Job Requirement:
- demonstrates capability of using Visual Studio by unlocking minimum 10 achievements.

posted by Ramot

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

k3n0b1 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:32:20 GMT

After receiving an Acheviement the TFS Connection wont work anymore. It alwys tells me i would not have enough permissions.

posted by k3n0b1

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Pascal Craponne — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:46:47 GMT

Is there a limit in FxCop command-line length?

FxCop never returns (process is stuck) from my Visual Studio 2010. Process Explorer says there is a 8895 characters long command line.

posted by Pascal Craponne

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

grepppo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:03:18 GMT

erm.... seriously.... you guys *really* think this is a good idea.

Sheeesh

posted by grepppo

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

ElderDruid — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:57:57 GMT

I'm really hoping they come out with Steam integration.

posted by ElderDruid

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

harlock123 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:19:20 GMT

I actually think it a fun idea, that provided it does not mess with the development environment then its fine.For some out there it appears to interfere with their development environments that's a shame but not unlike a number of other extensions out there. The folks who don't like it then don't install it then...

posted by harlock123

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

lisbetta — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:11:25 GMT

4 days ago
Excellent idea, but some of the achievements don't really looks like achievements, but rather bad coding practices. It would be great if the points collected actually indicated you level of coding proficiency.

I totally agree with this! I like the idea, but I fear that we can just be incentivized in collecting achievements, even if it can mean writing worse code.

I just happened to read a good post about how achievements can be another driver for the adoption for code inspection and analysis tools.

Some ideas in there are worth implementing, in my opinion (in particular the one about focusing on positive change)

posted by lisbetta

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Digital_V31 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:53:17 GMT

@Duncanma:I am really looking forward to this fix. Please sign me up!

posted by Digital_V31

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

karstenj — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:20:12 GMT

We just released version 1.1 of the Visual Studio Achievements Extension which addresses the issue of users with an underscore in their Channel9 username. If your username doesn't have an underscore, there is no need to upgrade.

If you installed version 1.0 of the extension and registered with a username that had an underscore, you will need to take the following steps.

1. Go to Tools --> Extension Manager...

2. Click Updates and update the Visual Studio Achievements Extension

3. Restart Visual Studio

4. Go to Tools --> Options --> VS Achievements and click the Change User button

5. Log in and authorize the app

Follow these steps in this exact order and you should be good to go!

posted by karstenj

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

timyrlan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:27:53 GMT

Error 184 Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\ModuleSettings.dll" to "bin\Debug\ModuleSettings.dll". The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

Error 185 Unable to copy file "Z:\SBpromo\Lib\Utils.dll" to "bin\Debug\Utils.dll". The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

and so on

posted by timyrlan

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Tanielian — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:29:47 GMT

More Achievements? I need more... hehehe...

posted by Tanielian

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Thomas Levesque — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:03:41 GMT

Update to 1.1 fails because the signature is incorrect... had to uninstall 1.0 before I could install 1.1.

posted by Thomas Levesque

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

fchapleau — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:05:29 GMT

Got an error... "Achievement Files Have Been Tampered With." and I didn't tampered the files... !

http://pastebin.com/Mc3ibEsW

Thanks!

posted by fchapleau

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Isawen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:46:31 GMT

5 days ago, Pascal Craponne wrote
Is there a limit in FxCop command-line length?
FxCop never returns (process is stuck) from my Visual Studio 2010. Process Explorer says there is a 8895 characters long command line.

On my side with 20000 characters long it stuck. Any news about this performance issue?

posted by Isawen

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

SethCrichton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:23:41 GMT

I am also getting the "Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\xxx.dll" to "bin\xxx.dll". The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open." error with the extension enabled. I think the extension is great, please fix so that I can re-enable!

posted by SethCrichton

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Tanielian — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:56:00 GMT

Still very bugged... ex: http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/Tanielian/achievements/visualstudio/CloseAllButThis10Achievement

12/10 ?! oO

But its nice...

(I want more. There are very few to get. hehehe)

posted by Tanielian

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Gruffy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:55:43 GMT

None of my achievements get really unlocked/completed. Every time I start up VS2010, it tells me that Achievement XY is unlocked but taking a look at Tools>Achievements, none is unlocked. Same in my profile (like Tanielian).

posted by Gruffy

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

RodrigoBenin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:59:35 GMT

Same problem here. Interesting thing is that we have two machines with Achivements (pretty much the same setup) and in just one of them the error occurs. Had to disable the extension.

Jan 18, 2012 at 9:09 PM, DavidGardiner wrote
When this extension is enabled, I get errors building a solution (and these errors go away when the extension is disabled):
1
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(2868,9): error MSB3021: Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\MyProjectAssembly.dll" to "bin\Debug\MyProjectAssembly.dll". The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

posted by RodrigoBenin

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

karstenj — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:15:18 GMT

Yes, we've logged this but about the locked files and are currently investigating...

posted by karstenj

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

bc3tech — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:33:21 GMT

@DavidGardiner:seeing same thing here. disabled.

posted by bc3tech

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Cookiesworld — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:38:15 GMT

I'm not getting the achievements logged, they pop up when I open Visual Studio but nothing logged. Using version 1.1, have no funny characters in my username.

I am sat on a network behind a proxy, does achievements use the proxy settings from the system?

posted by Cookiesworld

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

DennieBee — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:05:26 GMT

I don't get any achievements logged anymore. I'm not getting any pop ups and no action is logged. I used fiddler to check if achievements is calling home, and it's not. I logged in, relogged in, changed user, uninstalled, installed again, removed registry keys, reinstalled again. Nothing works. As you can see, there is no underscore in my username.

Help?

posted by DennieBee

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Craggs — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:57:40 GMT

Hi,

Loving the extension but it seems to be bugged for me. Any achievements i earn are not credited. But for some reason the achievements in progress are still being added up for example I've got some sat in the started list with with a progress of 20/10, but they are also not being moved to completed. Cheers

posted by Craggs

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

karstenj — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:11:27 GMT

Version 1.2 (uploaded 2/2/2012) should address the experience where you were able to install the extension and VS notified you that you earned achievements, but then your profile was never updated on Channel9.There's no reason to upgrade to this build otherwise. We believe many people reporting issues with proxies will be fixed by this build.

In specific, some proxies were sending a Expect: 100-Continue header from the HttpWebRequest class, which the server wasn't prepared to handle. The fix was to set the static System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue property to false.

Also, when you upgrade your extension, if you get a certificate mismatch error, install this hotfix: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=38654, which will address updating this extension and any other extensions. If you don't want to install the hot fix, you can manually uninstall the extension and then reinstall with the new version.If you are still having issues with your proxy server and this build doesn't solve your problems, please post here and we will continue to investigate the proxy problem.

posted by karstenj

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

jewpaltz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:53:35 GMT

It just hit me.

I am a professor of Computer science and I am giving a course in .net programming (yes my colleagues have ostracized me for cohorting with the devil)

I am thinking of using this platform for grading my students,

Not for the final project which will be more traditional, but to make sure they are making solid progress.

Are there any suggestions people have about using this project in that way? Any pitfalls you can think of?

posted by jewpaltz

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

jewpaltz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:53:38 GMT

It just hit me.

I am a professor of Computer science and I am giving a course in .net programming (yes my colleagues have ostracized me for cohorting with the devil)

I am thinking of using this platform for grading my students,

Not for the final project which will be more traditional, but to make sure they are making solid progress.

Are there any suggestions people have about using this project in that way? Any pitfalls you can think of?

posted by jewpaltz

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

enriverd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:21:16 GMT

Hi guys!

This is a really cool extension!! Thanks for bringing this to VS2010! However, after the last update I started getting an error every time an want to recompile a solution. The first compilation runs ok, but after the first I keep getting an error that VS2010 cannot overwrite certain project DLL because the file is lock (that is not the exact message but is what is happening), and the FxCop that the extension is instantiating in the background is the process locking the files. Unfortunately, I had to disable the extension to be able to work. Just thought of reporting this to you!!

Cheers,
Enric

posted by enriverd

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

askhan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:25:42 GMT

Hi!

I've unlocked a couple of achivements this evening (saying complete) but neither is this updated locally or online!

I have updated to the latest extension.

Enjoy,
Samad

posted by askhan

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

LandRyu — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:49:27 GMT

Great extension, can't tell work from home apart now ^^.

However, looks like VS Achievement and Resharper aren't meant to start together,

I have to disable/re-enable one the two when I load a project or VS freeze...

posted by LandRyu

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

lightw3ight — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:12:34 GMT

Got the "The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open" error too, had to remove the extension

posted by lightw3ight

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Karep — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:52:37 GMT

Cannot think of anything more stupid. Some of the achievements encourage bad practices!!!

posted by Karep

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Nathan Craddock — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:43:58 GMT

This could have been excellent but you made all the achievements be terrible. It's a cosmic shame.

posted by Nathan Craddock

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

ITLackey — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:15:02 GMT

Got the "The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open" error too. Any word on a fix for this. I also agree that some of these achievments should have a negative score and more positive coding practices should be included.

Overall its just something fun to take your mind off the bug that your are beating your head against...

posted by ITLackey

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

PeterSulek — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:43:55 GMT

Cool addin for VS ! Also found some new social site (9facts) where are collected your achievements according to your location and so, just check it - http://9facts.com/Keyword/Top?keywordId=568065

posted by PeterSulek

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Dan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:43:58 GMT

I really liked the idea of the extension and have been running it for a month or so.
Sadly I experienced great sluggishness from VisualStudio that made my daily work unbearable. When deactivating the extension, it worked again without any problems.
Anyone else have this experience? Will there be any performance fixes out soon?

posted by Dan

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

SJHunt — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:46:57 GMT

@Dan: Yes - I have had VS hang just after unlocking an achivement. Uninstalling as we speak.

posted by SJHunt

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

karstenj — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:31:02 GMT

Plese try Version 1.4 which should address the problems with FxCop.

posted by karstenj

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Johnjalani — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:50:24 GMT

I hope new and more kinds of badges/achievements would be added, or certain ranking name would be given if a combination badges is achieved. like if you have completed all the HouseKeeping badges, you would be called, "Master House Keeper", etc.

Thanks

-p.s. having this budges is like playing CouterStrike...

posted by Johnjalani

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Yann — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:45:23 GMT

I get the same error. Also with version 1.5.

Regards

yann

Jan 19, 2012 at 5:17 PM, JuanZamudio wrote
I got an error with the extension and an error trying to report the error here in the site nice: here is the exception that makes VS crash

[Window Title] devenv.exe - Assert Failure
[Main Instruction] devenv.exe - Assert Failure
[Content] Expression: [mscorlib recursive resource lookup bug] Description: Infinite recursion during resource lookup within mscorlib. This may be a bug in mscorlib, or potentially in certain extensibility points such as assembly resolve events or CultureInfo names. Resource name: Security_Generic
...

posted by Yann

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

MartinRobins — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:24:40 GMT

Having an issue with this today; causing Visual Studio to crash with System.UnauthorisedAccess; tried to track it down through VS debugger, seems to be related to FxCop trying to open a file in a project output folder when that file is read only.

Funny thing though; the file being opened is project content and not an assembly.

posted by MartinRobins

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Kelly Summerlin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:26:49 GMT

VS2010 crashed today:

Exception Type: System.IO.IOException
Exception Message: The file 'C:\Users\ksummerlin\AppData\Local\Temp\qlc0sq4y.azv\RazorUtil\..\Debug\nunit.framework.dll' already exists.
Exception Stack Trace: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at System.IO.File.Copy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName)
at Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.FxCopAchievements.FxCopManager.CopyDirectory(String sourceDir, String destDir)
at Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.FxCopAchievements.FxCopManager.GetTempAssemblies(String tempDir)
at Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.FxCopAchievements.FxCopManager.RunFxCop()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

-------------------------

Installed Extensions
Process Template Editor
State = Enabled
Version = 2.0

WITDesigner
State = Enabled
Version = 2.0.0.0

NuGet Package Manager
State = Enabled
Version = 1.6.21215.9133

JustCode
State = Enabled
Version = 1.0

Visual Studio Achievements
State = Enabled
Version = 1.5

VSCommands 2010
State = Enabled
Version = 3.8.0.6

PowerStudio
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1.2

Ultra Find
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1

Web Essentials
State = Enabled
Version = 2.7

Snippet Designer
State = Enabled
Version = 1.4.0

JScript Brace Matching Extension
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1

JScript Editor Extensions
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1.2

JScript IntelliSense Para Extension
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1.1

JScript Outlining Extension
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1.1

JScript Word Highlighter Extension
State = Enabled
Version = 1.1

Productivity Power Tools
State = Enabled
Version = 10.0.20626.18

Mindscape Web Workbench
State = Enabled
Version = 3.0.110.20067

-------------------------

Environment Data
VisualStudio.Version = 10.0
VisualStudio.Edition = Premium
VisualStudio.FullName = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
VisualStudio.RegistryRoot = Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
VisualStudio.LocaleId = 1033
VisualStudio.DisplayMode = vsDisplayMDITabs
Time.UTC = 3/21/2012 1:21:03 AM
Time.Local = 3/20/2012 9:21:03 PM
OS.Architecture = AMD64
Environment.Version = 4.0.30319.261
Environment.HasShutdownStarted = False
Environment.OSVersion.Platform = Win32NT
Environment.OSVersion = 6.1.7601.65536
CurrentThread.Id = 1
CurrentThread.Name = [null]
CurrentThread.ThreadState = Background
CurrentThread.IsBackground = True
CurrentThread.UICulture = English (United States)
CurrentThread.Culture = English (United States)
Process.PagedMemorySizeMB = 659.94140625
Process.MaxWorkingSetMB = 1.34765625
Process.NonpagedSystemMemorySizeMB = 0.207256317138672
Process.PagedSystemMemorySizeMB = 1.66036224365234
Process.PrivateMemorySizeMB = 659.94140625
Process.VirtualMemorySizeMB = 1469.6953125
Process.WorkingSetMB = 735.92578125
Process.UpTime = 00:15:48.7160115

posted by Kelly Summerlin

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Dmitry Pavlov — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:30:57 GMT

It seems an extension causes an error on VS2010 build.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9011177/the-requested-operation-cannot-be-performed-error-when-compiling-an-xna-project

posted by Dmitry Pavlov

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Larsalot — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:47:59 GMT

It also causes my VS2010 (Win7sp1 Ultimate 64bit) to crash when it finishes building for the first time after installing the extension. I disabled all other extensions.

posted by Larsalot

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

zenxl — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:04:49 GMT

I keep getting achievements I haven't earned. The latest was just now when I got Interrupting Cow - Have 10 breakpoints in a file - which is not correct. I have only 2.

I have all kinds of weird achievements that I shouldn't have.

posted by zenxl

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

warnov — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:18:10 GMT

Have you noticed that the widget stopped working. Not even in the sample blog (http://rhizohm.net/irhetoric) they are appearing. Are you going to solve this?

posted by warnov

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Gobie74 — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:09 GMT

Is there a way to reset your profile back to the no achievements state? I got some achievements at a previous job that I'm really not too proud of becuase the code was so bad

posted by Gobie74

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

LMKz — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:22:33 GMT

This has to be the most pathetic concept I have ever seen - I cannot believe that people actually seem to think it's a good idea.

If I want to play games, I will play games. I don't need my ego stroked by a computer program. If you do, then you probably have self esteem issues. If you need to advertise your "achievements" via blog etc, that is really sad. If I ever turn up to a job interview and they are using this for assessment, they will get both barrels.

I can see how a 10 year old might like this idea. As for professional developers, no.

10 print "j00 p0wn this IDE"
20 goto 10

posted by LMKz

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Tanielian — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:24:41 GMT

Jan 27, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Tanielian wrote
Still very bugged... ex: http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/Tanielian/achievements/visualstudio/CloseAllButThis10Achievement
12/10 ?! oO
But its nice...
(I want more. There are very few to get. hehehe)

Even in the new version, Still very bugged for me... I just don't get them anymore...

posted by Tanielian

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

sastrysagi — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:42:28 GMT

This extension is not working properly.

if i open my profile i am seeing like this. it is completed but still showing under started

Started
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (5 points)
Invoke the 'Close All But This' menu option 10 times. I mean, who invented those damn tabs anyway?
10 of 10 complete

apart of this i had Install and Register For Visual Studio Achievements

but it was locked in my profile
I had unlocked below achievements and still showing under locked

Localization Guru (10 points)
Gotta Be Different (5 points)
Complex (10 points)
Go To Hell (0 points)
Regional Manager (7 points)
Scroll Bar Wizard (0 points)

is there any way to update all these
i am using 10 Mbps line to use internet and i re-checked that there is no connectivity issue when i achieved these.

Please advice

posted by sastrysagi

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Juiceman75 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:12:33 GMT

Nothing is posting to my profile.  I've tried the the following.

* Installed on two different computers
* Each on a different network
* Tried 2 different logins
* A friend is having the same issue
* Opened extra instances of VS
* Uninstalled/Reinstalled
* Restarted

Any other thoughts?

posted by Juiceman75

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

petermendez — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:12:45 GMT

I just installed this week and my achievements are not showwing up on my profile. I have v2.1.

posted by petermendez

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

Juiceman75 — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 03:15:24 GMT

Seems to be working great now!

posted by Juiceman75

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

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posted by hevaitampaisp

Re: Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta

LinArt — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:48:47 GMT

Hi, VSAchievements raises a RuntimeBinderException exception when loading a WiX installer project in vs2012 premium.

Here the vs2012 log:

<entry>
<record>596</record>
<time>2012/10/16 08:41:56.513</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.AzureAchievements.PublishToAzureProductionServerAchievement</source>
<description>VSA:Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.VisualStudio.WixProjectNode enthält keine Definition für Project.
 bei CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object )
 bei System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute1[T0,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0)
 bei CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object )
 bei Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.AzureAchievements.PublishToAzureProductionServerAchievementBase.GetIVsCfgs(IVsHierarchy hierarchy)</description>
</entry>

<entry>
<record>597</record>
<time>2012/10/16 08:41:56.514</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.AzureAchievements.PublishToAzureProductionServer10Achievement</source>
<description>VSA:Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.VisualStudio.WixProjectNode enthält keine Definition für Project.
 bei CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object )
 bei Coding4Fun.VSAchievements.AzureAchievements.PublishToAzureProductionServerAchievementBase.GetIVsCfgs(IVsHierarchy hierarchy)</description>
</entry>

Contact me if you need more infos
_Lin-Art

posted by LinArt