Stu's Rusty Bucket

.Net ramblings

I fail to see why people program in VB.NET instead of going straight to C#.NET, it is afterall, a comepltly new language unrelated to VB6??

mm ohwell…

Spent a few hours this morning looking for a small bug tracking system that is not a web app, doesnt require a web server and is a standalone windows app… Could not really find anything suitable.

I really hate the datagrid in .net, its effing horrid. Why did the developers assume you’d 99.99999% of the time just hook it directly to a table/query from a database?? Every example I’ve ever seen for it just plugs it into the DB. “Look heirachical records from the DB with primary keys!!” Nice, but not what I bloody well want. I shouldnt have to bind it to something.

It makes using it outside of a database table/query really bloody hard and awefull.

As bad as the old vb6 flexgrid was, it makes me miss its simplicity.  Select Full Rows, auto size columns, etc. just pile data into it.

aaargh.

Actually Stuart you don’t have to tie a DataGrid to a DB Table/Query/DataSet etc.

It can be tied to an Array if you want from what I’ve seen in the past in VB.Net.  Should be the same for C#.Net.