Long day
Well, I spent all day programming. Well, I guess not technically all day. I spent my first hour on the phone with tech support concerning an automatic software security update system that fails to recognize that my version of Visual Studio (2003) isn’t affected by a particular vulnerability in VS 2005. More amusingly, the patch for the version that -is- vulnerable won’t install on my older version. Eventually it was determined that my options are either:
1) Upgrade VS to a recent, affected, version, and apply the patch it keeps trying to push on me.
2) Wait for tech support to escalate the issue to the IT illuminati to fix their update software.
I’ll probably end up waiting for IT to get their act together, because there’s really no way I can justify spending the money on the new version of VS.
Anyways, after spending an hour on the phone with support, I spent the next 8 hours programming. I got some things started, which is good. I have a stub written for a particular plugin, and I have started a separate project on which I can develop an interface to some VB code that I am also writing, which I will eventually port back into the main application.