You know that a Windows service can be allowed to interact with the desktop in which case you can use and you need UI controls. I don't know what the intention is from those few line of codes but this is far from a War Crime, so I think you're exaggerating. Yes, I know that : Quote: In most cases, it is recommended that you not change the Allow service to interact with desktop setting. If you allow the service to interact with the desktop, any information that the service displays on the desktop will also be displayed on an interactive user's desktop. A malicious user could then take control of the service or attack it from the interactive desktop. I have seen worse. giuchici

So it's modifying names with conventions that are not part of the language? Are all of these modifications clearly documented? Which dialects of which idioms of which languages are used? If I have MagnumOpus, will if create a MagnumOpi set? What rules are followed? I can see it causing problems. I don't want an IDE to think in any language other than the language I'm coding in, and I certainly don't need automatic spelling changes. If I want an 'e' in a set name, it won't take me a day to type it, but it might take a day to track down problems later. Too many bells and whistles just give you earache. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Mike Hankey wrote: 12 = half empty or half full? Half empty. Because I assume we're talking about a case of beer, and alcohol is a depressant.

For all of those: X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| X| public class SysAdmin : Employee { public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem) { if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){ throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User)); }else{ base.DoWork(workItem); } } }

S Houghtelin wrote: He's far better than some of the other garbage I've heard. I am very grateful for not knowing this garbage you mentioned ... I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

DerekTP123 wrote: I was once working on a database designed by someone else. Gender was stored in the customer records as a CHAR(1). That field was a foreign key into a "tblGender" table, which had the following rows defined: GenderKey GenderValue M M F F The school where my kids go has us fill out the usual forms at the beginning of the year. In the identification section for the parents, instead of using the usual M=male or F=female, they have the coding as M=mother or F=father. The database has lotsa mistakes... -- Harvey

demoing on a QA server is never a good idea No argument there. We've been known to do demos on our local machines using Remote Desktop. So this was a step up.

That's awesome. do you have a citation for that I could share? 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

You are welcome

"Can you think of why a programmer would ever use a string to act as a bitmap field?" How about, they represent default boolean configuration settings. You can change them after the fact by patching the EX with a different string - once you find the string, of course.

When passing a StringBuilder, the .NET marshaller passes a pointer to the StringBuilder's internal buffer. This is the voodoo that had me baffled the most. To the .NET developer, the StringBuilder is a sophisticated managed class, but somehow the API is able to treat is like a char* (I think). Thank you!

They ensure that the mail room is closed during those thirty seconds.

gkushner wrote: var strChar; I hate weak-typing. :doh: Greetings - Jacek