Not All Software Developers Need To Be Graphic Designers - http://pietschsoft.com/Blog/Post.aspx?PostID=1421

Um... a Bury option would be nice for spam like this.

"Hmmm...*always*? Even for limited-set items such as gender, continent, blood type....? Seems like overkill to me." - cdjaco

Yeah, I have to agree with that. Take Gender for example; why event use a Gender table? The only values that exist and will ever exist are M and F.

Integers have a maximum value, but you'll never run out of GUIDs

""I don't think I trust that they won't be duplicated." I didn't see an answer for this one in the article. Does duplication actually happen?"

Um... Realistically, No. The probability of a duplicate GUID being generated does exist, but it's so slim that it's not a problem.

Odd.. Everytime I try to access the story (and I've tried a couple time), IE freezes, but Firefox is just fine with it.

There is a new version of this component available at http://simplovation.com/Page/WebMapsVE.aspx

There is a newer version of this control that uses the latest version of Virtual Earth here: http://simplovation.com/Page/WebMapsVE.aspx

When I started learning how to program I learned by reading code I couldn't read. I played around with it and figure out what stuff does. This was back in the day with QBasic and VB3; I was about 16 and couldn't afford any books and code was free for the peeking. Most books are really dissappointing and only cover about 1% of the technology on the surface; not to mention the fact that there are alot of bad practices shown in books. Also, to really get down and dirty it'll really help to look at the actual code of the framework. I've been using .NET Reflector for years to do this. Any code that just works and does well what it's made to do is worth looking at.

Some of us learn best from reading other peoples code, and in my case that's how it's always been from the beginning. If you don't learn well from reading others code, then just don't look at the code for the Framework and STOP complaining about it being available.

The example of what's happened to TestDriven.NET isn't the same as the nightmare example described in this article. With TestDriven.NET, he figured out a way to enable plugin in Visual Studio Express, and in the EULA is states that you can't use plugins with the product. He didn't copy code from the framework itself to do anything, so it's completely different. Your point is still true, Microsoft does sue in certain cases.

"We can now see the code as it was written. It also indicates (to me anyway) that someone in MS is pushing the open source model internally. I hope to see a fully open source .NET framework in the future sometime (.NET 5 perhaps?)." - gavinjoyce

We already have an Open Source .NET Framework; it's called the Mono Project (http://mono-project.com). I know it's not the same as Microsoft releasing the .NET Framework itself as full Open Source, but we don't want to forget about such a cool project.

Interesting points, but still not really related to .NET specifically.

Thanks for all the feedback! I didn't really think my design would get implemented; I pretty much did it to maybe inspire those with more graphic skills to come up with something better than the current design.

Here's a small example I wrote up of using the Fluent Interface pattern in a class that generates Sql query statements: http://pietschsoft.com/Blog/Post.aspx?PostID=1403

I actually posted a short summary of this article on my blog just before the online version of the article became available. The Parallel FX Library sounds pretty cool; I hope it doesn't take them too long to bake this stuff into the framework itself.

http://pietschsoft.com/Blog/Post.aspx?PostID=1399

I disagree!

I can understand the security concerns of having two seperate apps. One for “public” UI and one for Admin. But it really depends on what type of functionality your application offers. Does it really make sense to have a seperate tool to administer a Content Management System? Why not just put an “Edit” button on the pages when the user is logged in using an Admin account? There are plenty of other cases that would be easier to have a single app, but that’s probably the most common.