The Daily WTF

If you create a UI object in code, you have to go through all that pesky, annoying work of initalizing that object so it displays correctly. I mean, who wants to write VB.NET code which looks like this:

Label = New Label Label.Size = New Size(710, 300) Label.TextLB = “Operation:” someForm.Controls.Add(Label)

Here, we’ve created a label object which overrides a handful of default properties, and then gets added to the screen. You’ll have to do that for every control! Obviously, you need a method.

No, not a method called something like OperationLabel() which creates and adds the Operation: label to the form. You have to think more generic than that. We want a method which allows us to add any label, with any configuration, to the form.

Benjamin‘s co-worker has an idea exactly about how to accomplish that. Instead of that ugly block of code above, you can

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