A Small .NET Rant

 Dim MyList As New List(Of Stuff)
 
 Public Sub RemoveItem(ByValID As String)
       For Each Item As MyItem In MyList
             If Item.ItemID = ID Then
                   MyList.Remove(Item)
             End If
       Next 'Iteration Error is Thrown here because the number of items in the list changed
 End Sub

God forbid I have more than one item in the list with that ID I want to remove.... Why oh why doesn't .NET support live list updates? Having to Copy everything that fails the test into a new List and overwriting the original is retarded.

Using a generic collection would alleviate this.

Heres another rant.

I recently tried to bind a dataset to a radiobuttonlist with an edit button control inside the datatext area. (choose a shipping address with a button to edit it). THe hoops you have to jump through are more than you would expect.

#1- A RadioButton list only allows textual content in the datatext field when binding.
#2 - So I used a repeater instead to generate singular radio buttons with a button control dynamically added. Everything ok thus far. and I gave everything the same GroupName
      .NET destroys and replaces your groupname attributes so my radio buttons are no longer related to each other...
#3 - I finally said screw it I'll generate a panel with everything in it in memory by looping through the dataset in a loop. (another hitch with this was that there is no such thing an html control for a span. you have to create a generic control.)
#4 - So finally I get through all of that and insert it into the page (which is in a user control). And then oops. All my button events no longer recognize the controls due to how events wire up in .NET.....

....

Luckily I figured out how to use the onbubble method to generically capture page events and then Duck Type them to recognize my controls and get them  to do what I needed. So much effort for so little...

Friends don't let friends use .NET

VB.NET supports this

i+=1

But not this

i++

Am I the only one who thinks that doesn't make any sense?

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I guess my small rant isn't as small as I thought it was going to be