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"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to eradicate this evil from the world. As always, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This post will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Gordon."
Software Zen: delete this;
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Naw - then the other developers on the team complain because that's the way they have always done it. The senior developer on the team before you doesn't want to take the time and effort to teach more junior developers better ways of doing things. So in the end - you will rip out all the code you wrote, to replace it with 5X more code/execution paths to be tested 
Phil
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I'll assemble my elite team now! Thanks 
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I've seen people try that - it normally fails, horribly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ignoring the legal implications (server usage of Microsoft Office apps violates the license), the Office apps fail in odd ways or cause unusual server failures when used in this fashion.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm just a trainee and I still have a LOT to learn (and wrote some sh*tty code myself), but even to me this looks... funny 
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Look at it hard. Study it. Do the opposite and you'll do well in your career. Best to you.
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Thanks! Learning what not to do is also important, that's why I always take a look around here 
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Wow! my boss would kill me and the code together if she sees that in production (it's a 'she' boss..)
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Whoever wrote this; should be hanged, drawn and quartered...
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Doesn't that run the query twice, too? (Once to bind it to the GridView, which I assume is the big laugh here – does that even work in a service? – and once when initialising dv.)
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You're probably right. I was given a task to get it working again. I later learned that it may have *never* worked.
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[Reads first line of code]
Is that Visual Basic?? There's your problem right there!
Let the flame war begin (or fizzle out because nobody noticed/cared). ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Chad3F wrote: or fizzle out because nobody noticed/cared
Now nobody will miss it. 
Greetings - Jacek
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I still contend that Object Pascal is the better language!
There, feel better? 
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Nope. Befunge is the best. There is no better 2D programming languge. If there is any.
Greetings - Jacek
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the only coding atrocity i see here is the choice of language. maybe your gerfuffle means something to 'dozers but to the rest of us this might as well be a paragon of code purity.
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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
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The ghosts of the past won't let me rest. My former boss informed me that our project web page "was broken. At least, it is not listed as a malware site on Google".
Well, last thing happened to us last year after a hacker attack (see http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4323984/Analysing-an-obfuscated-malware-script.aspx[^]).
Since that project was my best piece of work (seriously, not in the satirical meaning of the rest of this post, and despite the code shown below), I immediately looked into it: the home page loaded smoothly. Nothing wrong. The next pages also. So, what was wrong? I tried an aspx page. Worked. Next aspx page, and here it was:
Error: Access violation. File exists. at
strFileName = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName
The page creates an image dynamically, based on user input. The image is written into Graphics folder of the web site. After the web site was moved to a different server, the clean-up process for that folder failed due to a lack of access rights. But that was long ago. I looked into that folder, and it was empty.
But wait, that line mentioned in the error message does something different!
Before the temporary image file is created, I ask Windows to give me a file name. I created such a superb function for that purpose:
Public Function getTempFileName(Optional ByVal Extension As String = "tmp") As String
Dim strFileName As String
strFileName = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName
strFileName = strFileName.Substring(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath.Length)
If Extension <> "tmp" Then
strFileName = strFileName.Substring(0, strFileName.Length - 3) & Extension
End If
Return strFileName
End Function
Overwhelmed by the beauty of this piece of code (it will surely be honored as the proper solution to that problem in many VB and aspx fora throughout the web soon), you'll likely not see how this function can fail. Also I had to take a look into Microsoft's documentation:
Not only does System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName return the full path for a temporary file, it does also create it! And yes, Windows must do so to ensure that two programs do not share one temp file. I took the filename only, never did I care for that file. And somewhen Windows run out of temp files...
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Oh.. it's considered a standard practice to delete the temp file after use... so, i'll say it's coding fault! Please, no offence
I don't rely on the get temp file though, I have my own random naming algorithm, kept locked highly in my hard drive with several layers of ultra military grade encryption! ! 
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Amitosh Swain wrote: i'm thinking to leverage it into a javascript ofuscator!
Uhm, so... the next "hacker's script" will be yours... or maybe this one was! <hides his IP under the desk>
Greetings - Jacek
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Jacek Gajek wrote: Uhm, so... the next "hacker's script" will be yours... or maybe this one was
I'm not that good at breaking anything... anything means anything...
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