I find your remarks offensive. Don't respond to posts if this is the kind
If you forgot to mention that you were referring to ClickOnce, how was I
supposed to know that that is what you were referring to? Apparently some
people here were able to guess. I tend not to guess. It makes me wrong less
often, and I feel a responsibility to not provide wrong information when
responding to questions. Poor communication on your part does not constitute
a lack of comprehension on my part. As to the kind of replies I give, I give
lots of replies every day, and have done so for years. Sometimes I write
thousands of words of explanation, a veritable chapter of a book. It all
depends on the question, and what the question tells me about the needs of
the person asking the question.
In your case, the question was poor. Programming is a form of communication.
You are communicating instructions to a computer. If your communication
skills are good, the program works as expected. If your communications
skills are sloppy, the program has errors and misbehaves. Garbage in,
garbage out. As your question was poor, I observed the only thing I could
observe without guessing, and that is that you need to discipline your
communication if you want to be a good programmer. Therefore, I wrote a
response designed to indicate this in an illustrative way. You were offended
by my response, but you *did* recognize that you had not been clear in your
question, and provided further and more informative data. Therefore, I
consider my response to have been in some measure, successful.
As to whether the lesson sticks, that is entirely up to you. As to whether
you are offended, that is irrelevant to me, other than as a statistic. I can
add it to the vast number of responses I receive, and if there is a
statistical trend of offending people, I may decide to modify my bedside
manner, depending upon the nature of the offense(s), taking into account the
personality traits of the people observed, and observations from those whom
I trust as counselors. You may consider your offense "noted."
--
Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
