Comments on: Page_Load is Evil

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:15:06 +0000

Adam Toth you are idiot. With such a strategy you should fire yourself first fuc&ing snob. To understand the events sequence it only takes 15 minutes in debugger or 5 minutes on internet for someone who unluckyly gets involved in ASP.NET Why would i to trash my brain w/that bullshit produced by microsoft trying to remember that crap that will be a brand new crap year later?

By: inv

inv — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:22:58 +0000

I totally agree with you! I consider myself a good programmer, but as far as asp.net goes i often feel like an idiot.

Despite of this, I’ve managed to create an enterprise search engine frontend that looks really good and works without flaw. And as much as it hurts me to admit it, I have to say that a lot of mye code is in the page_load method! You can accomplish a lot by putting all your stuff there, but its going to cost you a lot in the form of time and hacks (maintainability).

I think c#.net is A+ in terms of usability, while asp.net is on the other side of the scale. I also think that this is something MS should take seriously, because the day a better high level framework for web development comes around…i’m making the switch!

By: David

David — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:57:25 +0000

Page_Load is not evil, it is just open to often misused..

-David.
http://www.davemckay.co.uk

By: RottenApple

RottenApple — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:15:32 +0000

Page load is not evil. I guess the in house develoment team you lead is incompetent.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:35:57 +0000

> Probably 95% of the ASP.NET code running in this world lives in a
> Page_Load method.

Bullshit.

> I have seen 300+ line Page_Load methods on an alarmingly regular
> basis. I have seen entire websites programmed into Page_Load
> methods.

You are amongst idiots. Escape!

By: pfarrell

pfarrell — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:49:48 +0000

Nice post. I love the totally unscientific 95% reasoning. While I like to think that most coders aren’t generating shit like that, I can’t fail to look at the code I’ve inherited. Plus, add to fact that consultants tend to want to write unmanageable code for job security… You may not be as off as Darrell thinks

check out patf.net

By: Darrell

Darrell — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:45:11 +0000

Probably 95% of the ASP.NET code running in this world lives in a Page_Load method.

Nonsense! I certainly agree there are a lot of programmers out there that just dump everything in the page_load but to make a ridiculous generalization that 95% of the asp.net code lives in the Page_Load is a gross overstatement.

By: Urm

Urm — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:39:57 +0000

Eh yeah .NET PROPRIETARY MS GARBAGE!!!!! MS IS EVIL, NOT JUST SOME SILLY PAGE_LOAD!!!!

PHP WOOOO!!!!! MYSQL WOO!!!!!! .NET urm no.

By: Theodor Zoulias

Theodor Zoulias — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:03:56 +0000

Load += new EventHandler(DoThis);
Load += new EventHandler(DoThat);

Which will be invoked first, DoThis or DoThat?

Nobody knows for sure!

By: Soteriologist

Soteriologist — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:48:38 +0000

This’ll tell you everything you need to know Tryst… and it’s made by Microsoft ;-)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx