Pinning(narrowing) it down!

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I think it's easy to say..."well google it and find out"! Google can be so misleading at times. I've really learnt it the hard way. Your search criteria is so important. If that's not good, you're dead meat. So this is what happened. My company uses visual studio 2005 with team system for versioning. However I found that some of the documents created under the documents folder is VS were not version viewable. So I decided to ask my boss. Of course the reply was he had not looked into it but it would be a good thing to research. So I researched and google searched. This pointed me to the MSDN blogs and there was another person who had the same problem. He very confidently wrote that VS did not support version controlling for word docs. However it was possible to do version controlling through the share point portal. Wonderful! I thought I'd found the answers and so armed with proof showed off to my boss. Oh not so fast ME! I should have known.
So my boss comes along and he tries adding a word doc to VSTS and then checks it out, makes an edit and closes the word doc. Then he checks it in...VIOLA! It worked! I went red. I was so embarassed. This is the 999999999 faux paw that I've made! God it really is frustrating. Can't microsoft have a clearer help guide? Morons they have nothing for this topic! I'm so dead. My boss thinks I'm an absolute idiot and I had to bring it up in the team meeting. They all think now that I'm the "super duper stud".
The worst part was, this was on MSDN and someone said the current version of VSTS did not support word documents. Please my friends, don't use any of these so called google searches for proof. You have to double check to be 100% sure. Anyway I finally did apologize for shooting off. I'm just awfully frustrated. Next time anyone says "Oh just google it", they'll know what hit them. IT WILL BE ME!

Comments

Vivek Manjeri said…
Hahahah! I know been through that a few times. Am seriously thinking of starting a karoke bar in India sometime.US has lots of them.
10:55 PM
P said…
Lol. And you said Google was amazing earlier, did you? VS is crap! Use clearcase! and ahem its 'faux pas'.
9:07 AM
C'est la vie said…
Oops faux pas it is! *cringes in embarassment* I love clearcase too but my company does not use it.
9:19 AM
P said…
You also need to upgrade to Firefox 2. I like the 1600x1200 resolution though. Wide screen 19" I presume? Nick another screen and put two side by side. That's the way to work :)
9:44 AM
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