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  • D Dave Kreskowiak

    :WTF: is your problem?? All I did was bring up something I saw in a documentery about artillery and it's reliablilty and maintainability, and you think I'm picking on the Germans? Dude, back then, during the war, they tended to over-engineer their weapons. That's all I'm saying...

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    Alessandro Bernardi
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    I agree with you ;) And what's about an italian like me? Would you like me to speak about spaghetti code? :laugh: Luckly italian people does not always write spaghetti as they eat!! :P

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    • E ed welch

      Well, that code brings me back to the 90's. Typical "journeyman programmer" production. The journeyman programmer doesn't care about software engineering or improving the skills in their trade, just hack away until it works... eventually they work up their way to be project manager and leave the crap to someone else to maintain X|. Don't let it get to you too much the first 20 years are the worse :laugh:

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      Vozzie2
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      14 more to go, i hope i'll make it... :~

      It feels good to learn and achieve

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      • B Bernard Laplace

        This is just one method, but do not expect it to be short... :sigh: I spent my days debugging this kind of code... X|

        Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
        Dim i As Integer
        Dim r As Integer
        Dim sEmployeeID As String
        Dim dDateFrom As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateFrom.Text)
        Dim dDateTo As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTo.Text)
        Dim dDateCurrent As Date = dDateFrom
        Dim sConsultantInfoDay As String = ""
        Dim sProjectInfo1 As String = ""
        Dim sProjectInfo2 As String = ""
        Dim sProject As String = ""
        Dim DateEnd As Object
        Dim DaysNoticeExt As Object
        Dim sColor1 As String = "#FFFFFF"
        Dim sColor2 As String = "#FFFFFF"
        Dim PreviousColor As String = "#FFFFFF"
        Dim hl As New HyperLink
        Dim lb As New Label
        Dim lb2 As New Label
        Dim iDayofWeek As Integer
        Dim sDayName As String
        Dim sExit As String
        Dim bgColor As Drawing.Color
        Dim sColorProject As String = "#FFFFFF"
        Dim bTSClosed As Boolean
        Dim Hours As Double
        Dim HoursClientMonth As Double
        Dim HoursMonth As Double
        Dim HoursTBPMonth As Double
        Dim HoursInternalMonth As Double
        Dim DailyHoursTBP As Double
        Dim TSID As Integer
        Dim oEmpDateStart As Object
        Dim oEmpDateEnd As Object
        Dim bClientProject As Boolean = False
        Dim bProjectFoundMonth As Boolean = False
        Dim WorkPerc As Double
        Dim sHoliday As String
        Dim ProjectID As Integer
        Dim TotalHoursMonth As Double
        Dim dteRenewal, dteCurrentNotification, dteCurrentEndProj As DateTime
        Dim intRenewalCpt As Integer = -1
        Dim blnIsFirstTime As Boolean = True
        Dim intRenewsEachNbMonths As Integer

        	Select Case e.Row.RowType
        		Case DataControlRowType.Header
        			Dim iMonth As Integer
        			e.Row.Cells(0).Visible = False
        			e.Row.Cells(1).Visible = False
        			e.Row.Cells(2).Visible = False
        			e.Row.Cells(3).Visible = False
        			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Width = ConsultantColWidth
        			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Text = sEmployeeHeader
        			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Size = iFontSizeEmployees
        			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Bold = True
        			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.White
        			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).BackColor = Drawing.Color.DarkBlue
        
        			i = iColDaysStart
        			Do While dDateCurrent <= dDateTo
        				iMonth = dDateCurrent.Month
        				sDayName = WeekdayName(DatePart("w", dDateCurrent), True, Microsoft.VisualBasic.FirstDayOfWeek.Sunday)
        				e.Row.Cells(i).Text = String.Concat(Left(sDayNam
        
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        Jeroen De Dauw
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        Did the author die? ;P

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        • J Jeroen De Dauw

          Did the author die? ;P

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          0x3c0
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          That depends. Did the person who maintained the code have his home address?

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          • J Jeroen De Dauw

            Did the author die? ;P

            GSoC 2009 student for SMW! --- My little forums: http://code.bn2vs.com --- 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65!

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            Bernard Laplace
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            Well I have his home address, but I believe he's already dead, at least his brain was when he 'coded' this.

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            • D Dave Kreskowiak

              :WTF: is your problem?? All I did was bring up something I saw in a documentery about artillery and it's reliablilty and maintainability, and you think I'm picking on the Germans? Dude, back then, during the war, they tended to over-engineer their weapons. That's all I'm saying...

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              Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
                   2006, 2007, 2008

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              Bernard Laplace
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              #23

              French code smells cheese and has blue spots... :laugh:

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              • B Bernard Laplace

                This is just one method, but do not expect it to be short... :sigh: I spent my days debugging this kind of code... X|

                Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
                Dim i As Integer
                Dim r As Integer
                Dim sEmployeeID As String
                Dim dDateFrom As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateFrom.Text)
                Dim dDateTo As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTo.Text)
                Dim dDateCurrent As Date = dDateFrom
                Dim sConsultantInfoDay As String = ""
                Dim sProjectInfo1 As String = ""
                Dim sProjectInfo2 As String = ""
                Dim sProject As String = ""
                Dim DateEnd As Object
                Dim DaysNoticeExt As Object
                Dim sColor1 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                Dim sColor2 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                Dim PreviousColor As String = "#FFFFFF"
                Dim hl As New HyperLink
                Dim lb As New Label
                Dim lb2 As New Label
                Dim iDayofWeek As Integer
                Dim sDayName As String
                Dim sExit As String
                Dim bgColor As Drawing.Color
                Dim sColorProject As String = "#FFFFFF"
                Dim bTSClosed As Boolean
                Dim Hours As Double
                Dim HoursClientMonth As Double
                Dim HoursMonth As Double
                Dim HoursTBPMonth As Double
                Dim HoursInternalMonth As Double
                Dim DailyHoursTBP As Double
                Dim TSID As Integer
                Dim oEmpDateStart As Object
                Dim oEmpDateEnd As Object
                Dim bClientProject As Boolean = False
                Dim bProjectFoundMonth As Boolean = False
                Dim WorkPerc As Double
                Dim sHoliday As String
                Dim ProjectID As Integer
                Dim TotalHoursMonth As Double
                Dim dteRenewal, dteCurrentNotification, dteCurrentEndProj As DateTime
                Dim intRenewalCpt As Integer = -1
                Dim blnIsFirstTime As Boolean = True
                Dim intRenewsEachNbMonths As Integer

                	Select Case e.Row.RowType
                		Case DataControlRowType.Header
                			Dim iMonth As Integer
                			e.Row.Cells(0).Visible = False
                			e.Row.Cells(1).Visible = False
                			e.Row.Cells(2).Visible = False
                			e.Row.Cells(3).Visible = False
                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Width = ConsultantColWidth
                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Text = sEmployeeHeader
                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Size = iFontSizeEmployees
                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Bold = True
                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.White
                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).BackColor = Drawing.Color.DarkBlue
                
                			i = iColDaysStart
                			Do While dDateCurrent <= dDateTo
                				iMonth = dDateCurrent.Month
                				sDayName = WeekdayName(DatePart("w", dDateCurrent), True, Microsoft.VisualBasic.FirstDayOfWeek.Sunday)
                				e.Row.Cells(i).Text = String.Concat(Left(sDayNam
                
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                I have seen worse Russian code. Best thing to do with monster code is to use some reflections on it.

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                • A Alessandro Bernardi

                  I agree with you ;) And what's about an italian like me? Would you like me to speak about spaghetti code? :laugh: Luckly italian people does not always write spaghetti as they eat!! :P

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                  LMAO! :laugh: Ever here the American sing-a-long: 'On top of old meatball...'

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                  • B Bernard Laplace

                    Hoorray! I fixed it!!!! Well when the procedure found a time over 4 hours for a day it used to skip the next records for that day :doh: I am so proud that I can not resist to post the fixed method :-D

                    Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
                    Dim i As Integer
                    Dim r As Integer
                    Dim sEmployeeID As String
                    Dim dDateFrom As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateFrom.Text)
                    Dim dDateTo As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTo.Text)
                    Dim dDateCurrent As Date = dDateFrom
                    Dim sConsultantInfoDay As String = ""
                    Dim sProjectInfo1 As String = ""
                    Dim sProjectInfo2 As String = ""
                    Dim sProject As String = ""
                    Dim DateEnd As Object
                    Dim DaysNoticeExt As Object
                    Dim sColor1 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                    Dim sColor2 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                    Dim PreviousColor As String = "#FFFFFF"
                    Dim hl As New HyperLink
                    Dim lb As New Label
                    Dim lb2 As New Label
                    Dim iDayofWeek As Integer
                    Dim sDayName As String
                    Dim sExit As String
                    Dim bgColor As Drawing.Color
                    Dim sColorProject As String = "#FFFFFF"
                    Dim bTSClosed As Boolean
                    Dim Hours As Double
                    Dim HoursClientMonth As Double
                    Dim HoursMonth As Double
                    Dim HoursTBPMonth As Double
                    Dim HoursInternalMonth As Double
                    Dim DailyHoursTBP As Double
                    Dim TSID As Integer
                    Dim oEmpDateStart As Object
                    Dim oEmpDateEnd As Object
                    Dim bClientProject As Boolean = False
                    Dim bProjectFoundMonth As Boolean = False
                    Dim WorkPerc As Double
                    Dim sHoliday As String
                    Dim ProjectID As Integer
                    Dim TotalHoursMonth As Double
                    Dim dteRenewal, dteCurrentNotification, dteCurrentEndProj As DateTime
                    Dim intRenewalCpt As Integer = -1
                    Dim blnIsFirstTime As Boolean = True
                    Dim intRenewsEachNbMonths As Integer

                    	Select Case e.Row.RowType
                    		Case DataControlRowType.Header
                    			Dim iMonth As Integer
                    			e.Row.Cells(0).Visible = False
                    			e.Row.Cells(1).Visible = False
                    			e.Row.Cells(2).Visible = False
                    			e.Row.Cells(3).Visible = False
                    			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Width = ConsultantColWidth
                    			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Text = sEmployeeHeader
                    			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Size = iFontSizeEmployees
                    			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Bold = True
                    			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.White
                    			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).BackColor = Drawing.Color.DarkBlue
                    
                    			i = iColDaysStart
                    			Do While dDateCurrent <= dDateTo
                    				iMonth = dDateCurrent.Month
                    				sDayName = WeekdayName(DatePart("w", dDateCurrent), True, Microsoft.V
                    
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                    Arnaud Lhopiteau wrote:

                    I am so proud that I can not resist to post the fixed method Big Grin

                    No, 571 line long method can be considered non-broken.

                    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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                    • D Dan Neely

                      Arnaud Lhopiteau wrote:

                      I am so proud that I can not resist to post the fixed method Big Grin

                      No, 571 line long method can be considered non-broken.

                      It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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                      Bernard Laplace
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                      Well I can see I am not the only one practicing irony here, am I?

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                      • D DoctorMick

                        In fairness, a lot of bad implementations are done in other languages, I dare say there are as many shocking apps developed in C# as there are VB.Net.

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                        nullpointer 0
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                        yup, I second that.

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                        • B Bernard Laplace

                          French code smells cheese and has blue spots... :laugh:

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                          jan larsen
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                          #29

                          And Danish code is just sweet!...

                          "God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

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                            yup, I second that.

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                            BillW33
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                            I third that. I have seen far too much bad code in many languages. :sigh: Bill W

                            Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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                            • B Bernard Laplace

                              Well this code has been made in Switzerland...

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                              Gautier Boder
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                              Snif :'( I vote for removing the Swiss citizenship of this programmer ;)

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                              • B Bernard Laplace

                                This is just one method, but do not expect it to be short... :sigh: I spent my days debugging this kind of code... X|

                                Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
                                Dim i As Integer
                                Dim r As Integer
                                Dim sEmployeeID As String
                                Dim dDateFrom As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateFrom.Text)
                                Dim dDateTo As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTo.Text)
                                Dim dDateCurrent As Date = dDateFrom
                                Dim sConsultantInfoDay As String = ""
                                Dim sProjectInfo1 As String = ""
                                Dim sProjectInfo2 As String = ""
                                Dim sProject As String = ""
                                Dim DateEnd As Object
                                Dim DaysNoticeExt As Object
                                Dim sColor1 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                Dim sColor2 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                Dim PreviousColor As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                Dim hl As New HyperLink
                                Dim lb As New Label
                                Dim lb2 As New Label
                                Dim iDayofWeek As Integer
                                Dim sDayName As String
                                Dim sExit As String
                                Dim bgColor As Drawing.Color
                                Dim sColorProject As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                Dim bTSClosed As Boolean
                                Dim Hours As Double
                                Dim HoursClientMonth As Double
                                Dim HoursMonth As Double
                                Dim HoursTBPMonth As Double
                                Dim HoursInternalMonth As Double
                                Dim DailyHoursTBP As Double
                                Dim TSID As Integer
                                Dim oEmpDateStart As Object
                                Dim oEmpDateEnd As Object
                                Dim bClientProject As Boolean = False
                                Dim bProjectFoundMonth As Boolean = False
                                Dim WorkPerc As Double
                                Dim sHoliday As String
                                Dim ProjectID As Integer
                                Dim TotalHoursMonth As Double
                                Dim dteRenewal, dteCurrentNotification, dteCurrentEndProj As DateTime
                                Dim intRenewalCpt As Integer = -1
                                Dim blnIsFirstTime As Boolean = True
                                Dim intRenewsEachNbMonths As Integer

                                	Select Case e.Row.RowType
                                		Case DataControlRowType.Header
                                			Dim iMonth As Integer
                                			e.Row.Cells(0).Visible = False
                                			e.Row.Cells(1).Visible = False
                                			e.Row.Cells(2).Visible = False
                                			e.Row.Cells(3).Visible = False
                                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Width = ConsultantColWidth
                                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Text = sEmployeeHeader
                                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Size = iFontSizeEmployees
                                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Bold = True
                                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.White
                                			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).BackColor = Drawing.Color.DarkBlue
                                
                                			i = iColDaysStart
                                			Do While dDateCurrent <= dDateTo
                                				iMonth = dDateCurrent.Month
                                				sDayName = WeekdayName(DatePart("w", dDateCurrent), True, Microsoft.VisualBasic.FirstDayOfWeek.Sunday)
                                				e.Row.Cells(i).Text = String.Concat(Left(sDayNam
                                
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                                0x01AA
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                                You are almost predestined to apply a Laplace transformation ;P :laugh:

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                                • B Bernard Laplace

                                  This is just one method, but do not expect it to be short... :sigh: I spent my days debugging this kind of code... X|

                                  Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
                                  Dim i As Integer
                                  Dim r As Integer
                                  Dim sEmployeeID As String
                                  Dim dDateFrom As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateFrom.Text)
                                  Dim dDateTo As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTo.Text)
                                  Dim dDateCurrent As Date = dDateFrom
                                  Dim sConsultantInfoDay As String = ""
                                  Dim sProjectInfo1 As String = ""
                                  Dim sProjectInfo2 As String = ""
                                  Dim sProject As String = ""
                                  Dim DateEnd As Object
                                  Dim DaysNoticeExt As Object
                                  Dim sColor1 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                  Dim sColor2 As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                  Dim PreviousColor As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                  Dim hl As New HyperLink
                                  Dim lb As New Label
                                  Dim lb2 As New Label
                                  Dim iDayofWeek As Integer
                                  Dim sDayName As String
                                  Dim sExit As String
                                  Dim bgColor As Drawing.Color
                                  Dim sColorProject As String = "#FFFFFF"
                                  Dim bTSClosed As Boolean
                                  Dim Hours As Double
                                  Dim HoursClientMonth As Double
                                  Dim HoursMonth As Double
                                  Dim HoursTBPMonth As Double
                                  Dim HoursInternalMonth As Double
                                  Dim DailyHoursTBP As Double
                                  Dim TSID As Integer
                                  Dim oEmpDateStart As Object
                                  Dim oEmpDateEnd As Object
                                  Dim bClientProject As Boolean = False
                                  Dim bProjectFoundMonth As Boolean = False
                                  Dim WorkPerc As Double
                                  Dim sHoliday As String
                                  Dim ProjectID As Integer
                                  Dim TotalHoursMonth As Double
                                  Dim dteRenewal, dteCurrentNotification, dteCurrentEndProj As DateTime
                                  Dim intRenewalCpt As Integer = -1
                                  Dim blnIsFirstTime As Boolean = True
                                  Dim intRenewsEachNbMonths As Integer

                                  	Select Case e.Row.RowType
                                  		Case DataControlRowType.Header
                                  			Dim iMonth As Integer
                                  			e.Row.Cells(0).Visible = False
                                  			e.Row.Cells(1).Visible = False
                                  			e.Row.Cells(2).Visible = False
                                  			e.Row.Cells(3).Visible = False
                                  			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Width = ConsultantColWidth
                                  			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Text = sEmployeeHeader
                                  			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Size = iFontSizeEmployees
                                  			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).Font.Bold = True
                                  			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.White
                                  			e.Row.Cells(iColDaysStart - 1).BackColor = Drawing.Color.DarkBlue
                                  
                                  			i = iColDaysStart
                                  			Do While dDateCurrent <= dDateTo
                                  				iMonth = dDateCurrent.Month
                                  				sDayName = WeekdayName(DatePart("w", dDateCurrent), True, Microsoft.VisualBasic.FirstDayOfWeek.Sunday)
                                  				e.Row.Cells(i).Text = String.Concat(Left(sDayNam
                                  
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                                  Most code is like Dr.Frankenstein's mosnter. The only difference between good monster and bad monster is the good one has it's legs and hands and all else where they should be.

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                                  • D Dave Kreskowiak

                                    :WTF: is your problem?? All I did was bring up something I saw in a documentery about artillery and it's reliablilty and maintainability, and you think I'm picking on the Germans? Dude, back then, during the war, they tended to over-engineer their weapons. That's all I'm saying...

                                    A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
                                    Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
                                         2006, 2007, 2008

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                                    that's just too funny. I guess he's a bit cranky. I happen to be a bit of an armor historian buff, and the big, bad German tanks of ww2 were mostly junk. Credit to the 88 and the high velocity 75, but reliability is everything. The Tiger 2 and Panther broke down at horrendous rates. The panther's armor was spotty at best with mediocre quality of the armor plate, etc. Kelly's Heroes Tiger Tank - YouTube[^] Reliability was key. So, I appreciate the comment on the complexity of the arty pieces. I just wish some of the defense contractors in the US would learn.

                                    Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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