Just a sample of what I'm dealing with.

Control ctrl = (Control)sender;

switch (ctrl.Name)
{
case "cboCustomer":
.
.
.


Seriously, WTF? There's 2 events like this... I could have been 
mistaken, but I thought the great advantage of events and such was to 
avoid switch statements, or long if...else... blocks.

I've actually counted as many as 3 different places where data is loaded 
into controls from the currently selected item.

I have 1 "form" (actually it's a user control) that contains some basic 
data, and is in 4 files, approximately 4,000 lines of code each.

It's painful.

Oh, and get this... the database is just as delightful. The customer's 
address information is in..... 3 tables.

1 the main table contains the address itself, and pointers to the city, 
and the state tables.

That's right, a row for every city, and a row for every state.

It's more than just that. The address was just the easiest to explain 
example of the wtfery that permeates this project.



-- 
~Mike

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