Coming Soon: Visual Studio Achievements
- Posted: Nov 22, 2011 at 2:32 PM
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We are going to be rolling out a new project soon called Visual Studio Achievements. With the Visual Studio Achievements add-in, your code will be monitored and, as you proceed, you will unlock various achievements based on your activity. When you unlock an achievement, Visual Studio will let you know visually with a pop-up. In addition, your Channel9 profile will be updated with any achievements you earn, also updating your rank on the leaderboard.
You may see some updates to Channel9 as we begin rolling out the infrastructure for this service and do some additional testing. Check back and soon you'll be able to download it and start earning achievements!
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Almost thought it was April 1st. Actually could be pretty cool especially for people just learning the language features. "Congrats you are a delegate ninja" would be pretty cool.
Anyway of tying the achievements into job offers
"These are the dorks you are looking for" 
Oh and it could be really cool for educators too: if they can get feedback as students are using features to see if people really are trying things out on their own and not having a high ratio of achievements in a certain area could signal that they need to spend more time explaining that feature of the language.
The concept reminds me of those annoying "You've earned a badge! Yippee!" popups at khanacademy. But I think they went away since I've not seen them recently.
COOL !
But why there is no achievement from the original concept ?
http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/
Wow... erm, it's a great idea but a lot of those "achievements" are appalling, and not really something you'd want to call attention to or encourage as a developer.
100 fields on a single class.
Use goto.
20 single-letter class level variables.
A single 300 character long line.
Achievements should be things to be proud of, not based on practices that would make other developers cringe.
Dave, the achievements linked by felix9 was I believe (very) sarcastic, and I found very funny.
@Dave: I'm with Guillaume on this one. Very funny. I'd be proud to wear those hats if I were to do such awful things.
This is very interesting, when will it be available for download? Will it be made available via the Extension Manager in Visual Studio?
We were here first ! :p
If you need inspiration for more achievements in VS2010; we've got about 200 by now :) check'm out:
The project itself: https://github.com/jonasswiatek/strokes
More info: http://timdams.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/strokes-new-features-have-arrived/
Any idea when the beta will be available ?
Hope this will be available soon
I can't wait for this to go live.
How to get a notification ?
Any news ?
Still waiting...
I want this!!!!
I hope they don't have a "ship on time" achievement ;)
Come ship it already!
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