Comments on: Bad programming examples (part 1 of x) http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2008/04/25/bad-programming-examples-part-1-of-x/ Thoughts on life, liberty, and information technology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lucas http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2008/04/25/bad-programming-examples-part-1-of-x/#comment-164083 Lucas Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:30:29 +0000 http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2008/04/25/bad-programming-examples-part-1-of-x/#comment-164083 Someone should start a wiki of fundamental dos and don'ts, to help newcomers (and oldcomers) grasp some basic concepts. Btw, what's going on in the first example? Can this throw an exception? Request.Params["createDate"] If an exception is thrown when "createDate" is not found, then your solution won't work well ;) If null is returned, then createDate would never be assigned "-1" anyway. Someone should start a wiki of fundamental dos and don’ts, to help newcomers (and oldcomers) grasp some basic concepts.

Btw, what’s going on in the first example? Can this throw an exception?
Request.Params["createDate"]

If an exception is thrown when “createDate” is not found, then your solution won’t work well ;) If null is returned, then createDate would never be assigned “-1″ anyway.

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if(!Int32.TryParse(textBox.Text, out myInt)
myInt = -1;

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