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chriselst wrote:

As he wants things by the end of this week, anything that involved me manually doing stuff is not going to happen.

chriselst wrote:

They were deemed too complex and specialised to be incorporated

Stewart Judson wrote:

The only sensible way to succeed is by them talking to the business to analyse what they need (good job they're business analysts) then defining, developing & migrating to the system they need.

chriselst wrote:

support is nothing to do with me.

/**
<summary>The address of the user</summary>
<remarks>Stored in [dbo].[User].[Address]</remarks>
<value>String representation</value>
*/
private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox address = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox() ;

<member name="F:PlayGround.Form1.address">
        <summary>The address of the user</summary>
        <remarks>Stored in [dbo].[User].[Address]</remarks>
        <value>String representation</value>
</member>

public class DocumentationAttribute : System.Attribute
{
  public string Summary { get ; private set ; }
  public string Remarks { get ; private set ; }
  public string Value   { get ; private set ; }

  public DocumentationAttribute
  ( string Summary , string Remarks , string Value )
  {
    this.Summary = Summary ;
    this.Remarks = Remarks ;
    this.Value   = Value   ;
  }
}

[DocumentationAttribute("The address of the user","Stored in [dbo].[User].[Address]","String representation")]
private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox address = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox() ;

public interface IDocumentMyself
{
  string Name    { get ; }
  string Summary { get ; }
  string Remarks { get ; }
  string Value   { get ; }
}

public class MyTextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox , IDocumentMyself
{
  public string Summary { get ; private set ; }
  public string Remarks { get ; private set ; }
  public string Value   { get ; private set ; }

  public MyTextBox
  ( string Summary , string Remarks , string Value )
  {
    this.Summary = Summary ;
    this.Remarks = Remarks ;
    this.Value   = Value   ;
  }
}

private MyTextBox myaddress = new MyTextBox("The address of the user","Stored in [dbo].[User].[Address]","String representation") ;

SELECT
    t.name Table_Name
    , c.name Column_Name
FROM sys.tables t
    INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON(t.object_id = c.object_id)

BiggerDon wrote:

I am most interested in how you've gone about being self-educated in different languages and technologies.

OriginalGriff wrote:

ArrayList

OriginalGriff wrote:

And modern frameworks are seriously complicated

BiggerDon wrote:

how you've gone about being self-educated in different languages and
technologies

MessageBox.Show("This is the message")

MessageBox.Show("This is the message");

If a = b Then
   DoSomething()
End If

if (a == b) DoSomething();

OriginalGriff wrote:

Let's just say it's a lot easier to write total cr@p in VB than it is in C# and get it through the compiler to bite you at run time!

OriginalGriff wrote:

What I'm talking about is things like this:

VB

If a = b Then
   DoSomething()
End If

Instead of

C#

if (a == b) DoSomething();

If a= b then DoSomething() 

OriginalGriff wrote:

Let's just say it's a lot easier to write total cr@p in VB than it is in C# and get it through the compiler to bite you at run time!

if (x = 3)
   {
   ...