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Don't cancel - you have to pay:

Click cancel to cancel the canceling!

Or maybe click OK to agree to cancel!

I don't know!!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Difficulties
Not a band, but still not a WTF either.

Adriano:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Difficulties
Not a band, but still not a WTF either.

The ticker has nothing to do with the CD - it has everything to do with broken equipment, so it is a WTF, even if you found a CD on Wikipedia.

They're right - That types does do nothing meaningful

public sealed class GridTablesFactory
{
// Methods
private GridTablesFactory()
{
}

public static DataGridTableStyle[] CreateGridTables(DataGridTableStyle gridTable, object dataSource, string dataMember, BindingContext bindingManager)
{
return new DataGridTableStyle[] { gridTable };
}
}

The funniest thing in this post is the buddy icon.

"Get A BRAIN morans!"

Brian:

The funniest thing in this post is the buddy icon.

"Get A BRAIN morans!"

The funniest thing is that someone reading The Daily WTF uses a pink background.

Senitor Khan:

Brian:

The funniest thing in this post is the buddy icon.

"Get A BRAIN morans!"

The funniest thing is that someone reading The Daily WTF uses a pink background.

OMG a girl on teh internetz!!!!11oneeleven!

Both of those combined with the WTF present a perfect trifecta that is simply stupefying.

This comment does nothing meaningful.

The fahrenheit/celcius conversion seems to go the wrong way, there.
4,294,967,295°F is 2,386,092,923°C

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Anon:

This comment does nothing meaningful.

This comment means nothing meaningful.

Anon:

This comment does nothing meaningful.

This comment is nothing less than meaningless...

TRWTF is that anyone would have to be mindful about someone else's minutes. Do you guys still pay to receive calls or something?

TRWTF is that 4,294,967,295 C = 7,730,941,163 F.

fbjon:

TRWTF is that anyone would have to be mindful about someone else's minutes. Do you guys still pay to receive calls or something?

Those crazy 'mericanoes do.

A simple Google search led me to this site:
http://www.reallivemoms.ca/connect.aspx
Ok now moms can know how to clean a baby... Now the problem is keeping the baby quiet while typing on the keyboard.
Let me see, where did I leave Valium?

That OK/Cancel thing is confusing but not really a WTF; it's clear what each button does

This page is full of errors.

http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/117233/Error_404.html

Here is the actual source (from the reference source)

namespace System.Windows.Forms {
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.Remoting;

using System.Diagnostics;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.Win32;

/// <include file='doc\DataGridTablesFactory.uex' path='docs/doc[@for="GridTablesFactory"]/*' />
/// <devdoc>
/// <para>[To be supplied.]</para>
/// </devdoc>
public sealed class GridTablesFactory {
// private static DataTableComparer dtComparer = new DataTableComparer();

// not creatable...
//
private GridTablesFactory() {
}


/// <include file='doc\DataGridTablesFactory.uex' path='docs/doc[@for="GridTablesFactory.CreateGridTables"]/*' />
/// <devdoc>
/// Takes a DataView and creates an intelligent mapping of
/// DataView storage types into available DataColumn types.
/// </devdoc>
public static DataGridTableStyle[]
CreateGridTables(DataGridTableStyle gridTable, object dataSource, string dataMember, BindingContext bindingManager)
{
return new DataGridTableStyle[] {gridTable};
}
}
}

Morasique:

That OK/Cancel thing is confusing but not really a WTF; it's clear what each button does

I'm sorry - Is it confusing or is it clear - your sentence is clearly confusing.

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a WTF of it's own. Slow, kludgy... oh, and it runs on Java. The installer is doing you a service by not installing it; go command line and you'll never go back.

Dan:

oh, and it runs on Java.

That's not a WTF. The WTF is that it runs on Java 1.1

Dan:

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a WTF of it's own. Slow, kludgy... oh, and it runs on Java.

"Slow and kludgy" were implicit when you mentioned Java.


... just missing the sensation of a flamewar ;)

Bizarrely enough, there is a band called "Technical Difficulties."

http://www.garageband.com/artist/technical_difficulties/songs

Not an easy band to Google, however.

CW:

Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...

That's why I present all my dialogues with a verb as the first option. In this case it would be:

"Are you sure you want to cancel?"

"Yes, cancel!" "No, cancel!"

Or more succinctly

"Are you sure you want to cancel?"

"Cancel" "Cancel"

GridTablesFactory.CreateGridTables Method

This API supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

Returns the specified DataGridTableStyle in a one-element array.

Usually when I want to return a single element I just return it instead of wrapping it in an array, but that's why I'm not a Microsoft developer.

From the documentation. Supported in: 3.5, 3.0 SP1, 3.0, 2.0 SP1, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

It's good to know that meaningless types in .net stick around. I wouldn't want my old .Net 1.0 classes to stop working when we upgrade.

IL from the official Core Libraries, taken from version 1.0.3300.0 (.NET Fx 1.0)

.method public hidebysig static class

System.Windows.Forms.DataGridTableStyle[] CreateGridTables(class

System.Windows.Forms.DataGridTableStyle gridTable,

object dataSource, string dataMember, class

System.Windows.Forms.BindingContext bindingManager)

cil managed

{

    .maxstack 3

    .locals (

        [0] class System.Windows.Forms.DataGridTableStyle[] styleArray)

    ldc.i4.1 

    newarr System.Windows.Forms.DataGridTableStyle

    stloc.0 

    ldloc.0 

    ldc.i4.0 

    ldarg.0 

    stelem.ref 

    ldloc.0 

    ret 

}

(line continuations omitted)
For the not-so-assembly-inclined:

DataGridTableStyle[] CreateGridTables(DataGridTableStyle gridTable,

Object dataSource, string dataMember, BindingContext bindingManager)

{

    DataGridTableStyle[] styleArray = new DataGridTableStyle[1]();

    DataGridTableStyle[0] = gridTable;

    return styleArray;

}

Hmm I wonder how MS ended up with this class. After all there is the "internal" modifier. Can't see any reason to have this class public.

CW:

Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...

I'm pretty sure a [YES/NO] would do the trick... wasn't that option on the enum field, next to the FileNotFound?

Stilgar:

Hmm I wonder how MS ended up with this class. After all there is the "internal" modifier. Can't see any reason to have this class public.

It's good to know that the MS devs have as much difficulty with accessibility modifiers as the rest of us (I mean, "protected internal"? WHAT?).

Although I have to say that my fave fact about Visual Studio is that the executable is still called "devenv.exe".

CW:

Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...

If this was a Windows application (not a web-app or for another OS), you should be dragged out and shot for using OK/Cancel instead of Yes/No. The Win32 API's MessageBox() and MessageBoxEx() have the uType argument to specify which type of message box you want... one of the options is the constant MB_YESNO.

No, it's next to the YES and NOT enum values.

CrazyBomber:

CW:

Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...

I'm pretty sure a [YES/NO] would do the trick... wasn't that option on the enum field, next to the FileNotFound?

Sorry, wrong button--my above post was in reference to this one.

In before the $0.00 cheque rears its ugly head.

powerlord:

CW:

Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...

If this was a Windows application (not a web-app or for another OS), you should be dragged out and shot for using OK/Cancel instead of Yes/No. The Win32 API's MessageBox() and MessageBoxEx() have the uType argument to specify which type of message box you want... one of the options is the constant MB_YESNO.

You should try reading comments before you reply to them; CW clearly said that the business analysts insisted on that message, and he advised them against it. So you're shooting the wrong person.

On the other hand, wording ANY message box "Are you sure you want to..." is a shooting offence. Most people really aren't sure about anything when it comes to computers: why increase their existential doubt? And how do you "cancel out" of anything? Or do you mean "close" the form; in which case using the word "close" in your warnings would remove all that confusion... ;^)

To avoid confusion, all my cancel confirmation dialogs use the buttons "Cancel" and "Cancel Cancel".

How do you know, exactly? As another poster said, there's even a band, nevermind a CD, called "technical difficulties".

At least public static instances of the GridTablesFactory are threadsafe...

silent d:

All of the other .NET types do things that are profoundly meaningful.

That's what all the .NET shills say.

The Real TRWTF is that the temperature meters are only 3/4 full!

The real WTF is that Nick's video card can't convert degrees C into degrees F.

Hey! What about the real live dads?

Morasique:

That OK/Cancel thing is confusing but not really a WTF; it's clear what each button does

Wait, the message is confusing? Because that wasn't the WTF I saw. I saw it as being a WTF for confirming that someone was OK with owing the massive balance of $0.00.

Considering that part of the message was first.

The second "Are you sure you want to cancel? OK/Cancel" is just gravy.

JimM:

powerlord:

CW:

Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...

If this was a Windows application (not a web-app or for another OS), you should be dragged out and shot for using OK/Cancel instead of Yes/No. The Win32 API's MessageBox() and MessageBoxEx() have the uType argument to specify which type of message box you want... one of the options is the constant MB_YESNO.

You should try reading comments before you reply to them; CW clearly said that the business analysts insisted on that message, and he advised them against it. So you're shooting the wrong person.

On the other hand, wording ANY message box "Are you sure you want to..." is a shooting offence. Most people really aren't sure about anything when it comes to computers: why increase their existential doubt? And how do you "cancel out" of anything? Or do you mean "close" the form; in which case using the word "close" in your warnings would remove all that confusion... ;^)

The Yes/No was my proposed solution, actually - but I was informed (repeatedly) that this was a "confirm dialog", and UI standards required that all confirm dialogs use the OK/Cancel format. Because, you know, UI standards are always more important than common sense.

By the way, this message appeared when the user clicked a "Cancel" button to abort filling out a form and return to the main menu. If you really want to induce existential doubt, there's nothing like making "Cancel" mean one thing one moment, then the opposite the next moment.

Jamie:

The Real TRWTF is that the temperature meters are only 3/4 full!

Are you sure they are not 3/4 empty? [Ok / Cancel]

(Actually the meters are full. 4/4 full.)