Somebody had to write this error.
Posted in Ramblings, Theory on September 6th, 2007 by Peter Wooley – 2 CommentsHow helpful is this?
Someone at Microsoft had to have written this error and it represents a classic laziness in design. What creates this error is when you attempt to Copy & Paste a file in your C++ project. This seems so common, I’ve no idea why it doesn’t just work! Alas, you get this little beauty, telling you that what you want to do won’t work as long as an option is turned off. And here’s the rub: they give no instruction for how to change that option. When an application stops someone from performing a function the application can execute, but won’t, a general error message is simply not sufficient. Errors are for illegal operations, exceptions, absolute failures. Otherwise, you should help the user, guide them to what they want. I want Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition to tell me where that option can be set. Now I don’t even want to try.