Blodo told me to create a thread for all of these wonderful adventures.
21:00 - Visual Studio 2008 keeps losing its mind, causing coding to be incredibly messy. Consider moving the whole thing to Visual Studio 2013 while still building under the Visual Studio 2008 compilers.
21:30 - Install a proper version of Visual Studio 2008 to be able to use the toolset under VS2013. Doesn't show up in the project preferences, for no reason.
22:30 - Someone on stack overflow mentions you need to install VS2010 to be able to use the VS2008 toolset even if you already have VS2008 installed. Microsoft logic.
23:00 - VS2010 express offline installer is here. I install it, run it once then start VS2013. The VS2008 toolkit is now available for choosing in VS2013. Selecting it causes the project properties to be completely blank and unusable for no reason. I go back to digging on the internet.
23:30 - I realise the version of VS2010 Express I downloaded is in French instead of English. Blodo says Microsoft can't be that stupid and it's probably not a language difference issue. I still start downloading VS2010 Express in english anyway.
00:00 - the installer is here, I install the English version of VS2010 Express, start it once then restart VS2013. The project properties window isn't empty anymore. Blodo shoots himself in the conspiracy chat.
00:30 - I write this post and realise how much time I've lost because microsoft is unable to build toolkit setups for their own products and language differences are apparently good enough to crash a professional programming IDE.
A lot of us 'Players' just don't realize the amount of *unpaid* work that the Devs put in to keep Disco running, so an occasional reminder like this is a *GOOD THING*.
3.5 hours for something that should take a few minutes.... have to wonder sometimes.