http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Rob, you're not kidding. I distinctly remember MSFT going out of their way to say that ASP.net 2.0's specific goal was to reduce required coding in standard scenarios by 80%. I can't remember the exact quote, but that was the gist of what they were selling. My immediate thought at the time was, of course, "Great. Now I'll have five times as much "easy" yet unmaintainable code to deal with." http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment4http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment4Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:26:58 GMTAmen to that! It's actually something that really bothered me about a lot of the ASP.Net 2.0 presentations I saw when it first launched... "Look at all the stuff I can do without writing single line of code!" Ok, now customize it. http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment3http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment3Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:37:42 GMTNo http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment2http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment2Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:52:43 GMTInterestingly DOA more often means Dead On Arrival. Coincidence? http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment1http://ayende.com/2873/d-o-a-software#comment1Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:46:39 GMT