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Sledgehammer + Tac = Picture hung INSIDE the wall !!
It just seems sometimes that everytime I look at someone elses' code I see one of two things; Over-designed object models, or under-implemented code.
David Findley and I were discussing such a situation today, where we found ourselves looking at something like this:
Strongly-typed DataSet -> Derived Base-class -> Derived Class -> Derived-derived Class being consumed by a class that uses a custom (read proprietary) Data Provider class that fills the much-derived strongly-typed data-set.
All of this work, was done to implement 4 simple functions: GetEmails, AddEmail, UpdateEmail, and DeleteEmail.
Sometimes I really don't understand why people make their lives so complex....*sigh* -
"Look Ma, One Hand!"
I have a love-hate relationship with many of the articles on the Research site at microsoft. The descriptions of their various projects are always greatly intriguing with tantelizing glimpses at their effort, but they are equally often bereft of any specific details, examples, of even photos of their results.
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Enterprise Instrumentation Framework [EIF]
Microsoft finally published EIF to MSDN Subscriber Downloads, their new approach to logging, tracing, auditing applications within th enterprise. During the Everett(VS.NET 2003) beta, I was very disappointed that it was a no-show, especially after the prominant mention of this framework in the document announcing the roadmap that included Everett. I asked many times about EIF within the Beta forums, but never received a response, and seriously thought this was just a bit of vaporware...but now it is actually here.