VisualD with latest VS2019 (and 2022)

[Imperatorn]

On Monday, 15 November 2021 at 22:23:30 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
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> On 15/11/2021 10:52, awson wrote:
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> The development mostly happens here: 
> https://github.com/rainers/visuald
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> I have just pushed my changes to make it work with VS 2022.
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> The MultiToolTaskVisualD was contributed by someone who's no 
> longer around AFAICT. I had to disable it in VS 2022 for now 
> because of the mentioned problems.
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>> [...]
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> According to the github stats, the last version has about 2000 
> downloads.
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> I hope so ;-)
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> Does the latest release fail for 16.11.6? It still works for me 
> in 16.11.2.
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> The package compilation model groups D source files by folder 
> and compiles them to one object file for each group. It is 
> somewhere between building all files in the project at once and 
> each file individually.
>
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> The dmd project 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/vcbuild/dmd.vcxproj#L163 builds per package, but it doesn't use parallel compilation. I'm not sure if it is a feature that is actually needed. It was meant for single file compilation, which is seldom necessary anyway.

Just wanted to say thanks for working on Visual D. It's a life 
saver for me when it comes to debugging as it mostly just works. 
The only problem I've had with it is related to dmdserver using a 
lot of memory and restarting.

If I restart VS the problem goes away.