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[Guest]

EMW: Sorry if that came across as rude to you. We were all beginners once
and I try to not berate beginners. What really irritates me is when people
suggest the wrong answers.

Tom: You have a bad case of NIH (not invented here) syndrome. I used to do
the same stuff you are doing. I looked at some of your posts and noticed
that you are having problems with a lot stuff that is fixed if you use
microsoft's controls. Take the time to learn all of the framework and what
it's capable of and you will end up with much cleaner code with fewer errors.

 

[Tom wilson]

">Tom: You have a bad case of NIH (not invented here) syndrome."

I don't understand what that means.

" I used to do

the same stuff you are doing. I looked at some of your posts and noticed
that you are having problems with a lot stuff that is fixed if you use
microsoft's controls."

I rarely use Microsoft's controls because they are inflexible. I use
Infragistics controls wherever possible. I find Microsoft's methods
for doing anything over-complicated and bloated. i.e. I needed to
find out how to return a recordID from a SQL server. Just that. MS's
example is 3 PAGES of code. My end solution was 2 LINES. My solution
is "wrong" apparently. Yet it works and I don't require a stored
procedure for every last table, hundreds of them in some cases.

"Take the time to learn all of the framework and what
it's capable of and you will end up with much cleaner code with fewer
errors."

Some of us work all day for a living. I haven't quite finished the
'duplicate person' project yet.

"What really irritates me is when people suggest the wrong answers."

My suggestion, of using LiteralControls is "wrong"? Why is it wrong
when it works? If I write data classes that retrieve and manipulate
data instead of binding controls directly to a datasource, why is that
"wrong" when it works perfectly?

EMW, ignore me. Sorry to waste your time. Here, apparently, is the
real, complete solution:

"Use a table"

*smacks forehead*

Sorry Scott, I get this all too often. I get either "you're doing it
wrong" with no explanation or suggestions or no response at all, like
the last question I asked about resource manifests. Nobody knows what
a resource manifest is but everything I'm doing is definitely wrong.
Welp, I'm going back to writing working, efficient applications and be
proud of it because that's what I've been doing for 27 years. Hearing
everything I'm doing is 'wrong' when it all works is insulting.

Tom

 

[EMW]

Tom,

I won't ignore you, because your suggestion worked great for me and I'm
happy to have using it.
Thanks again for helping!

rg,
Eric.