--- title: Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) description: A 2012 blog post critiques the newly released Visual Studio Achievements Beta from the Channel 9 team, a gamification extension that awards badges for coding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-brag-about-your-visual-studio-achievements-yet--qhpuinqev twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) | daily.dev og:description: A 2012 blog post critiques the newly released Visual Studio Achievements Beta from the Channel 9 team, a gamification extension that awards badges for coding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-brag-about-your-visual-studio-achievements-yet--qhpuinqev og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QhpuINQEv.png og:image:alt: Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A 2012 blog post critiques the newly released Visual Studio Achievements Beta from the Channel 9 team, a gamification extension that awards badges for coding behaviors. The author praises the concept of making coding feel rewarding but slams many actual achievements for celebrating bad practices, like 'Regional Manager' for adding 10 regions to a class or 'Job Security' for using single-letter variable names. A few positive achievements exist, like organizing usings or trying extensions, but the author wishes for more achievements tied to genuinely good habits like writing unit tests or implementing IDisposable correctly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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