Dude, *asking* that question of a really experienced and good developer is enough to make them rethink working for your company in the first place. :) As others have said those kinds of questions are entirely useless and annoying to quality, experienced developers. I know it's a buyers market right now for developers but no matter how bad the economy it is *never* a buyers market for really good quality developers so unless you're after 3rd rate cannon fodder type people you best rethink the entire interview process. One high quality highly experienced developer who knows how to get things done is *easily* worth 20 or more fresh out of school / no real world in the trenches experienced developers. "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

mr_lasseter wrote: but how would one go about doing this with TDD Test Driven Development? You might need to explain your thoughts more specifically. mr_lasseter wrote: Would I need to abstract the FileSystem and assemblies? Not sure what you mean because those are both already abstracted right? led mike

I've been to 2 of the SQL MCP courses in the UK, they were OK but I could have learnt most of the information from the training notes supplied. The only benefit of the training courses was a occasional paid week out in London :laugh:

I've seen the MVP pattern applied in various ways, and the way we apply it here at work may be different than what you're used to. For us, we have validation at several levels: the model object, for example, Employee, "owns" the validation -- you can't make one with bad data. However, we have stuff in place in the presenter to check for valid input (perhaps utilizing the model to determine whether it's valid data), and if it's invalid, update the view accordingly (e.g. highlight the invalid data in red). Something along those lines. Does that help? Life, family, faith: Give me a visit. From my latest post: "And you think, 'To keep my anti-Judaic theology alive I must reinterpret this verse too as being a blessing for Christians and not for Jews. I know it strains all manner of principles of interpretation. I don’t read the newspaper this sloppily, but, man, I have a theology to defend.'" Judah Himango

Chris McGlothen wrote: Most Americans don't know how good they've got it. In 1975 when I was in my early 30's the median (not average, but median) salary for white males was $40,000.* This year the median salary for white males in their 30's is $35,000* * using 2008 dollars Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

But... I can't! I have to shift the transmission, talk with the mobile phone #1 and send SMS with the mobile phone #2... also I play soccer (tapping the ball) with my right foot 50% of the time the other 50% I use it for pushing down the accelerator... of course I drive without shoes and then I can use the left foot toes in order to use the navigator and the car audio system. And of course I have also to drive. PS: I was forgetting to eat and to drink from a soda can. PS2: Sometimes I make also gestures that are not kid sister safe to other drivers. PS3: Also I touch the horn sometimes... I really hate those guys that are a danger in the road: those ones that go too much fast or too much slow... all of them should go like me... quiet, cold, well paced at 150mph... you know: the roads are dangerous so the minimum time you spend on them is better... :rolleyes:

fat_boy wrote: BTW, WTF is a 'mashups'? I think it is something the young'ins do on there iMacs.

hahaha Hadn't seen that one before. classic. :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::.. Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTL

John Cardinal wrote: unintentionally I can't help it, honestly ;) WPF - Imagineers Wanted Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath

Then you're screwed, aren't you?! Seriously, they have to figure out how to write code. In this day, with multi-core proc's being the norm, they simply have no choice but to fix their crap. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

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I wouldn't expect so.  The designer will always be a set of shortcuts for people who prefer not to have to write code.  It can never be as flexible as actual programming.

mr_lasseter wrote: What about the datareader handling nulls changed in .Net 2.0? Still doesn't handle nulls, but you can just write a single generic method and make use of the Nullable class. I adapted a technique I found and posted it at codekeep. http://codekeep.net/search.aspx?criteria=nullable&searchby=snippettitleanddesc[^] Kevin

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Nevermind. I see that it is the way it intended to be. Mike Lasseter

Not used it. Only read about it. Kevin