You should strive for quality 3rd party components. Not every 3rd party component is good. I probably like about 20% of them.
In trems of dead weight the better / best components do not have tons of extras. http://www.charlescarroll.com/chaz/site/3917/default.aspx http://www.charlescarroll.com/chaz/site/3915/default.aspx http://www.charlescarroll.com/chaz/site/4011/default.aspx http://www.charlescarroll.com/chaz/site/3918/default.aspx are all excellent starting points. Log4net and Ibatis are 2 of my faves. As are the STC (strongly typed collections) that are the opposite of what you state -- very lean and light. On 4/13/05, Mat�as Ni�o ListMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very good points, Mr. Carroll. > > Taking your analogy to heart; The problem I always seem to have in crafting > swords is this: I go out and find expert-designed swords that I could use. > However, the expert swords seem to be very generic and often contain bells > and whistles that seem like dead weight to me. I find that I could make my > own sword much sharper and faster for its own specialized tasks than the > generic expert-designed sword by hardcoding my own specialized sword. > > Is this bad practice? Should I always opt to rely on generic 'expert' code > and take on its dead weight rather than building specialized code? I'm sure > there are many implications and trade offs... Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AspNetAnyQuestionIsOk/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
