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extension prompts to enable telemetry after every visual studio update
If telemetry hasn't been enabled in VS 2017, AxoCover will prompt to enable it after every VS update. If there's going to be a nag "feature" it should be configurable.
The nag is not a feature, this code was made before VS 2017 was even released and before that updates were quite rare so there was no consideration. I think this is caused by that when VS is updated the settings of AxoCover are lost, I will need to look into save them in a way that the update will not erase it.
BTW it even prompts when it is enabled.
Ah, I didn't know. Thank you for enlightening me. Do you think there's a VS 2017-specific way to save configuration settings? I did some quick googling, but I'm not seeing any hints toward that.
I used the built-in settings capability of .Net, and while it works fine usually, it seems it does not tolerate reinstalls without forgetting all the settings. I guess I was not annoyed by this so much so far because at work I am using VS 2015 and that is not getting much updates. I might have some time to check it this weekend.
So the problem is likely not VS 2017 itself, but rather that there are updates coming every other week or so, which trigger this loss of settings more often.