Comments on Richard Banks - Agile and .NET: Parameters: You’re Doing It Wrong!

O Dick, Where are u. Call me.

2012-01-19T13:34:01.223+11:00

O Dick, Where are u. Call me.

Another example of your great sense of humour - lo...

2012-01-11T11:47:53.442+11:00

Another example of your great sense of humour - love it.

LOL! Ha!

2011-12-10T14:59:37.629+11:00

LOL! Ha!

I'll leave my current role because I feel sick...

2011-11-28T00:20:06.514+11:00

I'll leave my current role because I feel sick working on code like this :(

Those lines means that system needs a complete rebuilding because mentality made such mistake sure did other terrible mistakes everywhere in that system.

This is a clear indicator that system had NO *proper* design at first place.

Some there is something wrong with this (used here...

2011-11-24T15:15:20.332+11:00

Some there is something wrong with this (used here pretty much every day)?

public static SomeType SomeMethod(string, string, double, double, string, bool, bool, string, string, bool, int, string, string, string, string, string, double?, string, int, string, string, string, int, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, bool, bool, string, double?, int?, double, string, string, string, string, string, string, bool?, string, string, string, string, string, bool?, bool?, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, int?, string, string, string, string, string, string, string, int?, string, int?, string, string, string, string, List>, IEnumerable, string, string, string, string)

We have one justification for many parameters. We...

2011-11-24T13:30:24.375+11:00

We have one justification for many parameters.
We write an Excel Addin, and basically write some custom Excel "Functions" eg MYAVG(1,2,3)
It's often necessary, in this scenario, to use 20 arguments on the end, open to the user, to add as many arguments as they need. Keeping in mind that the "API" into creating an Excel function has you creating a C# (or VB) function with the same number of arguments as the mapped Excel Function.

This leaves us with dozens of functions with around 30 or so arguments - which map directly to Excel functions.
Horrendous, but absolutely necessary.

For the record, I agree with (Uncle) Bob Martin, that any more than 1 parameter is a code smell - not wrong, just a smell... that needs sniffing.

This is how I imagine SharePoint APIs..

2011-11-24T11:58:56.482+11:00

This is how I imagine SharePoint APIs..

whoever wrote that...if they drove to work, might ...

2011-11-24T10:47:08.628+11:00

whoever wrote that...if they drove to work, might I suggest you take their car keys away from them?

I found your problem. Simply replace Boolean with ...

2011-11-24T10:43:24.998+11:00

I found your problem. Simply replace Boolean with bool.

You're welcome.