No, I'm no retiring from the coding field...
actually I'm in the opposite direction.
the last few months I've been working on a new system thats about to go online in the next few months.
busy as hell in architecture issues, coding issues and more...
i decided to take the opportunity of this project and Finlay get into the asp.net 2.0 .
so i tried to do some coding here
Convert.ToDotNet2(Shimon);
but that only returned an exception of InvalidCasting.
so, i sat on my bottom and started to learn all that is to know to introduce myself to the new features (yes, i know it's about time).
from what i can see, asp.net 2.0 will introduce to the world a lot of "drag&drop" programmers.
take for example the login controls that come built-in:
- it's great for the beginner programmer.
- this is one well of a !#@#!!# for an architect.
i mean, they coupled a GUI to a "generic" DB structure, Why ???
what if i want to manage my roles and permissions in other manner (say hierarchical roles...),
or just manage the user in my DB with all the other tables so i can do some easy data mining ?
to do that i need to write some providers to the controls that equals to implementing the business logic from scratch.
i will extent later on that matter (some other post...)
building this project as a one man show gave me an oppertunity of a vast view on a system besides playing with one module.
from now on, i'll continue update here the progress of the project.