I'm a startup junkie. I use my free time to see if I can form teams to make something useful for folks. As part of that, I was talking to some guys this week about a new opportunity and one of them suggested that I write a mock-up UI to better demonstrate what we were talking about.

So I thought I'd just whip out C# and make something easy in WinForms.

Ugh.

Microsoft and friends, I love you guys. Really I do. I've been with you for a long, long time now. But I can't help notice that every freaking thing in windows programming has a more options than a Wall Street derivatives trader.

I like options, really I do. But when I click on a Telerik ListBox and see this? Somewhere we went off the rails.

What is the real value of this level of detail?

When I train .NET developers, one of the first things I have to deal with is their overwhelming sense of being lost by all the things they can do in the IDE. It's not just a button, it's an image, it's a video, it's 3-D, it's beveled, it's filled with a wash, etc. For all I know it makes jullianne fries.

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