Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32
While trying to check-in some code to TFS using Visual Studio 2012, I got the following message:
Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32.
The check-in did not continue and this message was all I was left with. In the history of poor error messages, this must rank pretty high.
As it turns out, the solution was very mundane. For some reason Visual Studio had decided not to save one of my newly edited files, thereby confusing the check-in dialog enough to make it throw this error.
After saving all my open files, the check-in completed successfully.
Developers should remember that error messages are useless if they:
- Do not give the user useful insight to what has gone wrong
- Do not suggest possible solutions
Sometimes software sucks.
