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Just a short post today to address a change in how VS 2008 handles proxying your web services.

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I’ve been thinking about the state of the programmers coming into our industry recently.  It seems to me that many of the college students who graduate today understand the syntax, but few know how to apply true object oriented principles to the real world.

I recently had a discussion with a friend who confirmed my observations.  Simply put, most people do not think in object oriented terms.

We’ve both spent time teaching other programmers, or having other programmers work for us.  We’ve watched good programmers stumble over this whole concept of object oriented programming.  Some leave understanding it and being able to apply it right away.  Others, struggle to do the exercises we give them.  Why is that?

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The FormView generally makes editing a record at a time pretty easy.  However, one of the biggest problems I’ve seen with this control is that there is no way of telling the FormView to use the same template for both Add and Update.  My experience has been that most of the time, Add and Update look exactly the same, or enough the same that you could use one template and hide the inappropriate controls in the template.

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