VB Wire News is a joke

[Maven]

If you are ready to take the training wheels off, I would suggest acm.org and ams.org for information.

[chris128]

I'm glad I stumbled upon this thread because I was about to post something similar in forum feedback... it just seems to display extremely out of date stuff, with the odd useful thing in there every now and then. I saw the one that someone mentioned about C# GUI Programming not long ago and just thought ***...

I dont understand why everyone is defending it :S yes I know I dont have to click it but that is not an answer to it being rubbish, surely on a very popular site like this it would make sense to have something that isnt advertising extremely bad coding practices and showing the most basic of tutorials?

[techgnome]

Thing is... it's member submissions... actually not even member... anyone can submit. So there's nothing to stop me from submitting a two year old article, even though common sense says that it shouldn't take. But it does. I think in cases like that, the author is trolling for views. It ticks me off, and cheapens the value of vbWire.

-tg

[arunb]

I searched for VBWire and found VBforums.com instead....what's going on??

[emartinho]

I know this is a long time after the fact, but I'm just glad I wasn't the only one left wondering about this article!

Bah, I can't believe this is even an article: Article :: C# GUI Programming. It's an article about dragging and dropping standard controls. Yes, dragging and dropping standard controls.

How is that even useful? Not to mention the interface looks like complete crap.

I actually read the thing , and immediately wondered why I don't write an article on GUI. I mean the interface created for this article is so full of crap I don't know where to begin. Instead of, at least, putting the address bar at the top and the browser object below, he has a HUGE empty space, with a combo and button slapped in the middle of nowhere, and the browser object off to the side where you would probably have to scroll to see it completely! And that's only after 10 seconds of speculation!
My major (and I mean MAJOR!) weakness as a programmer is in GUI design, and I KNOW that I can do WAY better than this author. Pathetic, really.

-EM

[chris128]

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/42851?trk=DXRSS_DOTNET
Wow... another one featured on VB Wire that surely anyone who has ever used a generic List (which is a hell of a lot of people) and anyone who has ever used the String.Split method (again an awful lot of people) could write in about 30 seconds. In fact, anyone who has ever written a loop could do it!

Plus, in .NET 3.5 (and this article was published less than a week ago so no excuses) you can just do this instead of looping through the string array and adding each item to a list:

MyStringArray.ToList()

!