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This code reads like someone who codes placeholders and doesn't add comments about why he put in a placeholder. It also reads like code written by certain co-workers who can't code, comes running to you for help, mashes your suggestions into unrecognizable pulp and then presents their "work". Leaving you wondering what they were thinking.
I'll leave placeholders if I get requirements that are a confusing mishmash of illogical thinking. But I'll add comments about why my code is illogical.
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Bumped into an interesting “Engineered” approach the other day. Went for a meeting to discuss 2 applications that share many common features. So I was expecting 2 solutions, each sharing a number of projects.
How wrong I was. It turned out to be 2 applications in the one project! I didn't react surprised because I've seen the approach before. One project liberally sprinkled with pre-processor directives.
#if APP_ABC
#else
#endif
Fortunately the developer reassured me he was an Engineer a few times so that made me feel a lot of better. 
"You get that on the big jobs."
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What no #if DEBUG vs #if RELEASE bugs in that code? Damn, he's good 
You should have asked him if he ever swapped dll's between the applications. That would be great fun 
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Interesting approach that dll idea. I think we'll work on that
"You get that on the big jobs."
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My company actually uses such an approach for a Form. The two Forms just happen to look the same.
Every Method looks a bit like this:
If m_screenMode = ScreenMode.ScreenOne Then
Else
End If
Fixing one mode almost always messes up the other one.
Adding Controls to the Form messes up the other one unless you do not forget to hide it etc...
It even got to a point where I had to change the name of the Form at runtime because of some other Classes that need a Formname as parameter...
Really horrible! 
It's an OO world.
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I have cleared such a mess here. They had all in one and methods with at least 1000 lines.
Total horror!
regards Torsten
I never finish anyth...
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my current project rebuild that I inherited, has one page that has over 1000 lines of code in the page load. That's it, all in the page load....
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning.
A crisis on your part does not constitute one on mine.
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I had to decipher code from a VB project like that once. It was an ungodly mess... Each form had about eight different possible modes (to use your terminology) which depended on a lot of things that happened when the form was loaded, and to top it off, each one had multiple steps, like a Wizard of some sort. Well, you had to be a real Wizard to understand that code. I guess I qualified?
My employer, which was not the perpetrator of that code, had been contacted to translate that VB mess into a Python-based script with a Web front end. The original "engineer" didn't have a lot of time to tell us how it all worked. We did it.
So you have my sympathies!
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Yeah, I have seen that kind of stuff in legacy code. Really a pain to work with it. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Perfectly valid VB.NET syntax:
If If([If], IIf.[If]("If")) Then : End If
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looks a bit ify to me 
"You get that on the big jobs."
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Someone once told me that "if" is the biggest word in the dictionary.
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Just along for the ride.
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If it depends on your definition of if is, then you are screwed.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
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Ahhh, a Clinton supporter!
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Finally, a language that doesn't put stupid restrictions on me!
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You don't even want to know what you can do with JavaScript. 
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What.
The most iffy thing I've done is to recreate IIf for WP7, but man, that's just... 
Don't forget to rate my post if it helped! 
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
"His mother should have thrown him away, and kept the stork."
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
"He loves nature, in spite of what it did to him."
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The "intro message" on one of the new Futurama episodes tonight was:
Some ask "What if?"
We ask "Why if?"
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Whenever I hear "what if", I think of The Time Machine ("you're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: what if").
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Too funny. I just watched that on TV over the last weekend. My son was seeing it for the first time and as one proud, highly geeky dad I observed him riveted to the screen as he pondered the concepts of time travel.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Why Stop.... Carry on Ifs and Iffs ....... But no End If 
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and I didn't write it!
Just look at the code the OP posted...
Clickety!
First problem....the post is located in Javascript forum while the code is in vbscript!
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right." — Henry Ford
"When I waste my time, I only use the best, Code Project...don't leave home without it." — Slacker007
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