The Weird and The Wonderful

Good pickup :) I dont know about the Calender but the dev was definitely not of this Earth :)

Actually, this code has a somewhat subtle behavior, since it is catching by-value, prior to throwing. If a derived exception is thrown, it will be "clipped" to the base class when it is thrown. This could be potentially different from invoking throw, which would throw the derived class.

Haha. I hate to say this, but in my career, I keep coming across projects that are mostly C# with a small percentage of awful VB.Net code. (I do find GOOD VB.Net code on the 'net.) For example, in my first job out of college, 95% of the code was in C#. There was one group of dlls written in VB.Net where the developer had all methods take a single array of objects as THE argument. Even weirder was that almost all of the values being passed on the stack belonged as object-level fields. The code was an example of how NOT to use weak typing. It was very clear to me that the original developer spent a few months on the code... I re-wrote it all (from scratch) in 3 days!

I can fully understand your reasons for leaving. Makes you thing that no one has ever heard of structured coding. The worst I have seen was while extending a DLL written in C. Apparently the orignial developer did not understand how to pass parameters, instead using about 2000 global variables. Fortunately I was able to put my foot down and get rid of all but one or two globals.

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VBA/Excel03 still has the same performance penalties over modern languages. >30min to ~1s (timed from button click to completed dialog appeared, so a decent chunk of that second was form loading) X| -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

Hey, I also almost bought a new case. I, however, refrained from doing so when I learned the price of the case I had laid my eyes on. However, my case is now printed neon red with neon green stripes and purple-metallic dots. PRETTY! Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

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Great...Keep it up.... why not now use manuscript :laugh: Recently I heard a babyscript developed too... How i wish I'd one copy of it. X|

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Logically Thinking -- True. But sometimes, throws exceptions. :) Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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