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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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AspDotNetDev24-Sep-12 6:09
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Clifford Nelson26-Sep-12 5:49
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GeneralThey grow up so fast.. PinPopular
jim lahey19-Sep-12 23:03
jim lahey19-Sep-12 23:03 
At our place we have a few of the "senior" apprentices staying with us in the dev team for a year. When I say "senior", they're about 19 in human years, but look about 8. I got to mentor one for a few weeks and threw him in at the deep end by giving him a MOSS WebPart to develop. For the most part, he's done an OK job and seems to be getting the hang of things, but still comes out with stuff like this:

C#
int status = (int)(Status)Enum.Parse(typeof(Status), _statusBy.ToString());
this.dataSource.SelectParameters.Add("status", status.ToString());


Given that Status is an enum with integer values, this would actually suffice:

C#
this.dataSource.SelectParameters.Add("status", ((int)_statusBy).ToString());


Bless.
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GeneralC# properties and type safety Pin
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BobJanova20-Sep-12 6:29
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