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I went to use a visual studio extension today that helped upgrade older versions to newer ones, it was free, worked offline, and did a great job of converting projects while providing a helpful report of what was changed and other notes about the process. A recent update to visual studio has completely disabled this functionality and added a "Modernize" option that only works with a paid Copilot subscription. Terrible enshittification of a product, but while reading about a possible workaround, I found a nuclear take with one of the worst analogies I've ever seen anyone try to make:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Error-Message-when-loading-VS-20206-afte/10971375#T-N10974933

#VisualStudio #VisualStudio2022 #Microsoft #Copilot #DotNet #enshittification

travis

@travis@social.lol replied · last month

to the Visual Studio team's credit, they have already shipped a new version with the previous tool back in place, you have to re-enable it in the options but at least it's available

travis

@travis@social.lol replied · last month

Unfortunately, according to the comments, it only seems to be available when the Copilot features are installed which defeats the purpose for a lot of folks that were originally reporting the issue because the installation of any Copilot (or other AI) tools are prohibited by their orgs

Stewart Russell

@scruss@xoxo.zone replied · last month

@travis Alois is getting the ratio.

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