Comments on: You know you are working on bad code when … http://randomcode.net.nz/2008/05/14/you-know-you-are-working-on-bad-code-when/ Random code and concepts from yet another .NET developer Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Henrik http://randomcode.net.nz/2008/05/14/you-know-you-are-working-on-bad-code-when/#comment-75 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:21:40 +0000 http://nealblomfield.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-75 …when you see “advanced” ADO.Net code, manipulating strings to insert the “parameters”, perform the ExecuteNonQuery() in some places, all within a try-catch block:
try {
var tx = createtx();
// much ado (.net)
cmd.CommandText = “ALALLA attribute=” + myTextbox.Text + ” AND bla bla”;
// some writes to db
}
catch(Exception ex) {
tx.Commit();
throw ex;
}

Saw this when I was to hire a second developer for a project :D

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