Work, asp.net and me

Seven days. Five working days and one weekend. My brain’s quite worn out just thinking about it. The web application I am currently working on really had me banging my head against my desk, as I tried to figure out the whole deal of ASP.net <– which I have never worked on, much less have knowledge about. A task that should’ve been completed in a day or two took me five because I had to gather my bearings and learn a little more than the bare requirement to be able to work on the application.
In truth, the bit of the application I had been assigned is actually rather simply. An Infragistics web grid to which I had to add a few new columns and on a cell click of one of these columns pop up a window through which the cell content can be edited. And setting some properties of the grid dynamically. I slogged. Literally. One of the main reasons being I was aware of the tags and properties of a newer version of Infragistics, but had to end up working with a version two times lower than the one I knew. Not so difficult when you have Google, right? WRONG!! Gosh!! Everything that had to be done was so obvious but I still took five days. The seven day count is inclusive of the time I took to familiarize myself with the general workings of ASP.net, doing sample applications myself with the aid of very good tutorials, understanding the application I was to work with, figure out the exact pages that would be modified/affected = some ten breakpoints and some twenty traces on the three pages I managed to narrow my search down to at the end of twenty four hours, coding it, documenting the changes, recoding it, making notes, re-recoding it, saving around thousand lines of code sure that I had done something stupid in that bit, and then finally emerging triumphant. Today is that day!! I sat with a clear mind last afternoon and figured out the exact problem, which turned out to be a mismatched variable declaration , that realized that my textbox should actually have it’s AutoPostBack property disabled, and finally that the column indexes would be the best way to deal with the grid rather than the column headers, or keys. Yeah, I’m done. Just this little bit with a text box which say null even though I haven’t initialized…or done anything to or with it for that matter.

Hiddink has stood behind Chelsea’s last two wins. Their match against Aston Villa last weekend I watched, but not yesterday’s against Juventes…:) Yeah, I have reason to smile now. Cech was wonderful yesterday, I have news from very trusted sources on this.
Have a KT on MOSS development thus shall make another post shortly. Once I’m done with the test specification for my bit…