Make New Stuff (Part 2)

Other people are making new stuff too! How exciting!

Here's Dave's contribution:

Partial Class myMasterPage
Inherits System.Web.UI.MasterPage

public delegate Sub MasterPageMenuClickHandler(s as object, e as EventArgs)
public event MenuButton As MasterPageMenuClickHandler

Private _currentButton As String

Public Property CurrentButton() As String

Get


Return _currentButton

End Get

Set (ByVal Value As String)



_currentButton = value

End Set
End Property

Sub btnMenu1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
' Assign value to public property
_currentButton = btnMenu1.text

' Fire event to existing delegates

Raiseevent MenuButton(Me, e)
End Sub

Sub btnMenu2_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
' ' Assign value to public property
_currentButton = btnMenu2.Text
' ' Fire event to existing delegates


Raiseevent MenuButton(Me, e)
End Sub

End Class

In this item's honor, I must point out that writing code is WAY harder than writing sentences. When I write a sentence, I can tell pretty quickly whether or not it's doing what it's supposed to do.

When I try to write code, on the other hand, it's more like: type, compile and pray it accomplishes its intended result. That's the beauty of the above. You struggle and struggle and struggle to talk the computer's language and when the computer finally goes, "Oh yeah! Sure, I can do that!", you bellow in triumph and lapse into total exhaustion.

Dave insists coding is not an art, because it expresses nothing.

I beg to differ. I say it expresses turmoil, patience, adaptation and ultimately - if you're lucky (in my case), or skilled (in his case) - achievement.