The Daily WTF

I’ve said many unkind things about ASP.Net WebForms in the past. While it leaves a lot to be desired as a web development environment, its event driven approach does map to a lot of folks understanding of software. Click a button, execute code in response. Change a radio button, execute code in response. A simple, easy to understand architecture.

Well, sometimes simple and easy to understand.

A number of years ago, Kyle was tasked with updating his employer’s “benefits election” site for the new year, and found this:

Protected Sub rdoSmokeYes_CheckedChanged(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Dim rdoEmployeeYes As RadioButton rdoEmployeeYes = CType(CType(sender, RadioButton).Parent, Panel).FindControl(“rdoSmokeYes”) […snip…] End Sub

This is an event handler. If the user altered the rdoSmokeYes radio button, this event handler will fire. The ASP.Net event handler takes two

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