.NET Answers

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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Back in the day, you use to be able to override an event in VB by using the drop down list in the code window.  Today, I had a friend who is moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2008 ask me, “How do I override events in VB.NET now?”  All you get in the drop downs now is the event handlers.

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Well, it’s actually kind of cool, regardless of what Joel Spolsky thinks.  I got my invite today and spent a little time trying it out.  Here’s my first impressions.

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Once again, this post comes out of a conversation I had recently.  You see, I have someone doing some work for me who’s just starting out in the programming field.  Well, he’s just starting out relative to me.  He’s actually pretty darn good.

As I was discussing a solution with this programmer I said something to the effect of, “Keep in mind that a lot of times, the easiest way to find a solution is to find out what the code IS doing.”

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