WinterAlexander · December 3, 2021 03:58
diff --git a/c#_wall_of_hate b/c#_wall_of_hate
  - Tooltips on listview items are shown only for first column (details mode)
  - Can't center text of first column in listview (but can set a 0-width column)
  - Can only put checkboxes on first column of a details listview
  - Any control with an integrated scrollbar don't let us control it manually without showing it (gotta user user32.dll to sync textboxes)
  - StringBuilder is sealed for no reason not letting people creating SQLRequestBuilder or HTMLBuilder classes efficiently
  - RichTextBox is slow and accepting RTF only, flickers even when rendering disabled
  - Designer doesn't accept having an abstract direct super class (gotta make everything virtual OR make a stand-in class)
  - Listview disables checkboxes automatically when multi selecting elements without any option to disable this
  - You need user32.dll to change a progress bar state (green, yellow or red) yellow meaning paused and red meaning error
  - A progress bar can't be filled without it's animation (need to change the value twice and go backward) and it can't change it's value while not in the normal (green) state
  - StreamReader and StreamWriter are buffered by default and there's no other class to read a file without buffering. If you don't want a buffered reading/writing write your own IO classes
  - You need a special C#6 class to get the stack trace of an Inner Exception, rethrowing it will lose the stack trace
  - Cannot execute a C# command line app from batch (it will execute in new window)
  - Everything is "final" (not virtual) by default, not letting people override any method if the original programmer didn't explicitly think about it
  - Linq's distinct method isn't accepting a lamdba (create your comparer in a different class)
  - Can't prevent scrolling from text selection in a textbox (other than forcing a flickering rollback from user32.dll)
  - On a details mode listview MouseClicks doesn't work if not hover an item
  - Can't know what directory a Open/SaveFileDialog will open or has opened (can only set it) without playing in registry (and this key changes from XP to seven)
  - Some custom collections (like ListView.SelectedIndexCollection) aren't IEnumerable<int> but IEnumerable only so lots of linq methods are missing. To use theses methods anyway, you have to make a useless cast col.Cast<int>() even if it's only containing integers
  - Internal code for Winforms is based on native code not letting you see how it works at all
  - Have to use reflection to remove unknown delegates from an event
  - StringDictionnary isn't implementing IDictionnary nor ICollection (only IEnumerable without generic) so have fun with polymorphism
  - Event delegates are null when empty forcing people to check for null everytime and warp the event into a local variable for thread safety. Workarounds are adding a empty delegate on event creation (which slowers the call), create an extension method (not always possible) or use the elvis operator (only C#6)
  - In Visual Studio, backspace doesn't auto-unindent whitespaces
  - In VS, you don't have example code to customize colors and the form to do that is modal
  - Can't return what you want in property setter (but you can with a method setter)
  - C# doesn't support return type covariance (annoying)
  - Only good use case of the new keyword is a workaround to the unsupported return type covariance in c# (else if considered bad pratice)
  - No digits separator nor binary literals 
  - Stack traces contains absolute paths, often resulting in lines like this:    at Odotech.Odowatch.Controller.Install.Database.DBExecutePage.LogWritten(Object sender, OdoEventLogEntry e) in c:\Users\awinter\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\OdoWatchNewInstaller\Controller\Install\Database\DBExecutePage.cs:line 224
  - Settings aren't mostly backward compatible, breaking your old settings when update
  - Last statement in switch need a break
  - On VS, Undo on the designer just reset it to the last saved version and there's no way to Redo
  - Call of First or Single on Enumerable throws an exception on empty, so you have to check everytime
  - On VS, running unit tests does not recompile edited code
  - If a bad config file is present in .vs/ (hidden file), IIS will crash without warning in VS and menu to select navigator will crash without any warning
  - No undo/redo on package explorer in VS
  - Counting amount of elements of a enum is 100% retarded
  - Since there's no wildcard on generics, your Map<String, GenericRepo<?>> becomes Dictionary<String, dymamic> and is way less readable
  - Cannot create "Exception" namespace, leading to a conflit with the Exception class
  - SerialPort is broken since 2010 and still not fixed in 2017, throwing random ass exceptions in Finalize and requires reflection and WinAPI calls to fix.
  - Dumb ass comments in official .NET source code like "These are correct, but we'd have to fix PipeStream & NetworkStream very carefully."
  - That: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnhar/2010/11/22/winforms-and-the-big-red-x-of-doom/
	- Tooltips on listview items are shown only for first column (details mode)
	- Can't center text of first column in listview (but can set a 0-width column)
	- Can only put checkboxes on first column of a details listview
	- Any control with an integrated scrollbar don't let us control it manually without showing it (gotta user user32.dll to sync textboxes)
	- StringBuilder is sealed for no reason not letting people creating SQLRequestBuilder or HTMLBuilder classes efficiently
	- RichTextBox is slow and accepting RTF only, flickers even when rendering disabled
	- Designer doesn't accept having an abstract direct super class (gotta make everything virtual OR make a stand-in class)
	- Listview disables checkboxes automatically when multi selecting elements without any option to disable this
	- You need user32.dll to change a progress bar state (green, yellow or red) yellow meaning paused and red meaning error
	- A progress bar can't be filled without it's animation (need to change the value twice and go backward) and it can't change it's value while not in the normal (green) state
	- StreamReader and StreamWriter are buffered by default and there's no other class to read a file without buffering. If you don't want a buffered reading/writing write your own IO classes
	- You need a special C#6 class to get the stack trace of an Inner Exception, rethrowing it will lose the stack trace
	- Cannot execute a C# command line app from batch (it will execute in new window)
	- Everything is "final" (not virtual) by default, not letting people override any method if the original programmer didn't explicitly think about it
	- Linq's distinct method isn't accepting a lamdba (create your comparer in a different class)
	- Can't prevent scrolling from text selection in a textbox (other than forcing a flickering rollback from user32.dll)
	- On a details mode listview MouseClicks doesn't work if not hover an item
	- Can't know what directory a Open/SaveFileDialog will open or has opened (can only set it) without playing in registry (and this key changes from XP to seven)
	- Some custom collections (like ListView.SelectedIndexCollection) aren't IEnumerable<int> but IEnumerable only so lots of linq methods are missing. To use theses methods anyway, you have to make a useless cast col.Cast<int>() even if it's only containing integers
	- Internal code for Winforms is based on native code not letting you see how it works at all
	- Have to use reflection to remove unknown delegates from an event
	- StringDictionnary isn't implementing IDictionnary nor ICollection (only IEnumerable without generic) so have fun with polymorphism
	- Event delegates are null when empty forcing people to check for null everytime and warp the event into a local variable for thread safety. Workarounds are adding a empty delegate on event creation (which slowers the call), create an extension method (not always possible) or use the elvis operator (only C#6)
	- In Visual Studio, backspace doesn't auto-unindent whitespaces
	- In VS, you don't have example code to customize colors and the form to do that is modal
	- Can't return what you want in property setter (but you can with a method setter)
	- C# doesn't support return type covariance (annoying)
	- Only good use case of the new keyword is a workaround to the unsupported return type covariance in c# (else if considered bad pratice)
	- No digits separator nor binary literals
	- Stack traces contains absolute paths, often resulting in lines like this: at Odotech.Odowatch.Controller.Install.Database.DBExecutePage.LogWritten(Object sender, OdoEventLogEntry e) in c:\Users\awinter\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\OdoWatchNewInstaller\Controller\Install\Database\DBExecutePage.cs:line 224
	- Settings aren't mostly backward compatible, breaking your old settings when update
	- Last statement in switch need a break
	- On VS, Undo on the designer just reset it to the last saved version and there's no way to Redo
	- Call of First or Single on Enumerable throws an exception on empty, so you have to check everytime
	- On VS, running unit tests does not recompile edited code
	- If a bad config file is present in .vs/ (hidden file), IIS will crash without warning in VS and menu to select navigator will crash without any warning
	- No undo/redo on package explorer in VS
	- Counting amount of elements of a enum is 100% retarded
	- Since there's no wildcard on generics, your Map<String, GenericRepo<?>> becomes Dictionary<String, dymamic> and is way less readable
	- Cannot create "Exception" namespace, leading to a conflit with the Exception class
	- SerialPort is broken since 2010 and still not fixed in 2017, throwing random ass exceptions in Finalize and requires reflection and WinAPI calls to fix.
	- Dumb ass comments in official .NET source code like "These are correct, but we'd have to fix PipeStream & NetworkStream very carefully."
	- That: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnhar/2010/11/22/winforms-and-the-big-red-x-of-doom/
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