UI Fail - Visual Studio Sometimes Has Difficulty Counting

Quick, what’s wrong with this?

This is the Visual Studio Nuget package manager, that shows you which Nuget packages have updates.

In case you haven’t noticed, this is the problem:

The count of updated Nuget packages is not congruent with their actual display.

Having been a software developer for a very long time, my first instinct when I see things like these is to empathize with my fellows, because writing software is hard.

There are a number of possible explanations for this:

1. The count of updates may be fetched separately** from the list, so a change may have happened as both calls were running
2. The list of packages requires fetching of additional information - version number, icon, description, etc. Perhaps one of them timed out
3. There is a threading issue in the code that renders the list of packages, and it is behind the code that renders the count
4. An edge case bug, as I have never notices this problem before

Who knows?

Happy hacking!