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Old 03-12-2008, 04:54 PM   #85
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Originally Posted by NatCh View Post
I find the numbers more agreeable than I think I would the progress bar ... after all these years with Windows I guess I just don't trust progress bars anymore.
I work for Microsoft, actually (was LINQ, now Silverlight).

And speaking from experience, they're not as easy to write as one may think. It's that whole problem of not generally knowing ahead-of-time how long it's supposed to be, whether or not you should trust what you're told, and how long people are willing to let you take to find out otherwise.
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