vblang VS project-system

Earlier today, two different posts responded to https://github.com/dotnet/vblang/issues/620 (an issue in a relatively niche repository, arguably), summarizing the original complaint into a response, that could plausibly be interpreted as coming from Microsoft.

MonroeLarkzvg and LeshaNewsomc both have no meaningful GitHub activity, except have forked a couple of ChatGPT related projects.

At this point, Microsoft-sponsored AI bots are spamming Microsoft-owned websites on Microsoft-owned repos, impersonating Microsoft.

We can probably argue about that and get nowhere. In any case, the language is being supported, just not extended.

if you use without ByRef, there is no compiler warning, even though it has no effect

The .NET Core one was necessary once. Today msbuild (and I believe VS too) uses heuristics instead, so it does not matter which GUID you use.

The Visual Studio project system is extensible, allowing you to integrate your custom project and SDK right into VS.

From the https://github.com/dotnet/project-system/blob/main/docs/build-acceleration.md

https://github.com/dotnet/project-system/pull/8438 (note: will be available in 17.4)

You can do this via csproj or launch settings by hands, but it won't work, see https://github.com/dotnet/project-system/issues/3690

Did you change the startup form for your project? If so, this is a bug that should be addressed soon. The easiest way out is to undo the change you made to the startup object setting it back to form1.

Sdk at least works with .net standard so shared projects can be converted to that, we also had some success using the MSBuild.SDK.SystemWeb sdk nuget package for our MVC5 projects which I found from the github issue discussions on adding official support for it on older projects.

For sure. If you still have access to the project, file a bug on https://github.com/dotnet/project-system so that someone can fix it for others too.

So this would be related to the project system module in Visual Studio but I am not sure how C++ specifically is handled. Might be worth bringing up here to find out where to report things like this or at least find out why they work the way they do.